[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] asim_ag:
Blueangel Vs. Magician

I am very lazy when it comes to writing or posting on this forum but finaly I decided to do it because I lost too much money on selling jam and getting Blue Angel.

I bought JAM after selling my trusted Imate (XDA II). JAM looks very smart and lite weight to carry around. But It has following deficiencies:

1. Its singal reception is not good as I live in an area where 50% singal comes and I had tried many sets before but no problem with Nokia or my previous imate. But with this phone I had to go outside so that other party could listen to me. The main reason for selling this phone was its signal strength which is not up to the mark.

2. The second is its voice quality. Although I tired various radio and rom upgrades to update its phone voice quality but I succeeded marginaly. Although its speaker phone is very good and loud. You can hear mp3 songs play through its speaker better than blueangle becuase they are loud.

3. The screen size is reduce so you need very good eyes. This means you can not run Internet Exploere is small size text font becase it gets very small to read. Also I usually manged to click some thing with my finger printer with out removing styles but this is definitely not the case with JAM as icons get smaller you may end up clicking other objects, You have to do this with stylus. This is not the case with Blueagel who has a wide screen. If you read books on it small screen does soar your eyes.

4. Its onscreen keyboard is also small and it is by default set to big keys which mean that you don't have number row on the top. But if you set it to small keys then you will again find trouble in typing text because you need to be very accurate with stylus.

5. Its stylus is by far very low quality and lite weight and very small, difficult to hold in your hand. If you are custom to imate XDA II stylus you will find it very cheap and hard to get hold on.

6. Memory of JAM get quickly filled in, you need to mange it more cautiously. For example my favourite program like MS Voice COmmand 1.5 run only in memory so you can not move it to Storage Card. I tried to move some DLL and ringtones to Storage Card but it again does not make much of a difference.

7. No WIFI. If you have WIFI at home or in office you should not buy JAM.

8. JAM camera sucks. Tried various methods to improve its quality and adjusting its sharpness and brightness. Little imporvments but definitely not the quality of 1.3 megapixel.

BlueANgel

1. Its extra weight causes me problem.

2. I have not used its slide out keybard, Because on-screen keyboard is more easier to type and give you suggestions also. HTC could have reduced its weight by removing slide out keybard.

3. Its 4 buttons below screen are excellent. You can just simple press the OK button in response to Dialog or when you want to close application window. I have configured one of the button to switch it to landscape mode.

4. Media Player 9 is included not 10. This is shame.

5. I like the approach of JAM using simple USB cable as its provides both functionality (charging and cradle). It is also easy to carry. The imate cradle is definitley can not be tugged along. You will need to buy sync + charge cable from brando or other store for travelling purpose.

6. My bluetooth headset Motorola HS 850 works excellent with Blueangle. It has 8 hours of talk time and when you close its boom its automatically switch off, when call arrives you open its boom and viola you are connected with in seconds. You can use it for week without charging.

7. I have cooked my own extended rom and have removed the arabic stuff. I have included latest caller ID and Smart Dialer as it came with JAM by default.

8. WIFI is excellent, althought its signal strength indicator has some flaw becuae it never exceeds more than 50% even if you are one inch away from your wifi access point. But it does not matter I can room in my office and home and I always get good wifi transfer speed. Simple no comparison with Bluetooth as you can create a share folder on your pc and access it on your Blueangle. Also VNC, Remote desktop connectivity and internet speed are all very good.

9. Its battery backup and standby is also better than JAM. It give me 2 to 3 days of backup including wifi browsing and Bluetooth headset connectivity.

10. I have shot some videos with pda2k and they record and run quite smoothly on my mmc card. This is suprise as my previous imate does not record them so smooth, their were pauses in movies. I am using the same mmc card on both devices.

FYI:

PLEASE DON'T RELAY ON FORUMS THEY GIVE YOU INFORMATION BUT THEY CANNOT SUBSITITUE REAL DEVICE EXPERIENCE. I LOST AROUND 120$ BECAUSE OF IT. (THAT IS SOLD JAM AND BOUGHT PDA2K)

Important Suggestion about PDA2k (Blueangel)

Don't upgrade to any ROM unless you have problems. I have stick mine to latest pda2k ROM upgrade avilable from clubimate. I tried to upgrade my radio to 1.08 and found out that after connecting with bluetooth headset, Wirless lan does not turn on. I switched back to radio 1.06 and everything is working fine again.

Asim A. Ghafoor