It is looking likely that i-mate has finally bitten the dust. According to ITP the main offices in Dubai have been shut and the staff cannot even get into the buiding- “The company, which mainly sold branded smartphones, has closed its office in Dubai Internet City and founder and CEO Jim Morrison is believed to have left the country.
Staff were told to take compulsory two-month unpaid leave in an e-mail last Wednesday, according to employees, but the next day received information that the operation was closing and found the office locked.
Calls from ITP to i-mate’s DIC office and to Morrison have gone unanswered, and the office is shut.
Retail partners of the company have also been told unofficially that it is no longer in business.
i-mate de-listed from the UK AIM stock market in November of last year, after its share price dropped to 0.12 UK pence.”
What are your memories of i-mate? Mine are of the JAM which was a great device at the time followed by a series of not so great devices.
my memory: terrible quality buggy phones..
A big purchase of imate devices at work turned most of our compay against WM forever.. can’t blaim them really..
Sorry but I was given a few imates at work and even for free I coulsn’t stand using them.. Their non-touchscreen devices were ok but the touchscreen ones were generally bad..
Yup, Joel has pretty much hit the nail on the head.
had a couple of devices. I remember their Jasjar (basically, the Sim Free version of the O2 XDA Exec), which I think did okay (probably because it was bloatware free).
But their more recent devices they seemed to feel the need to fill them with rubbish software