Audio interview with Jim Morrison - CEO of Carrier Devices - owners of i-mate brand
May 19, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R.
Jim Morrison leads the biggest in the world distributor of Windows Mobile - Carrier Devices, that sells phones under "i-mate" brand and offers also exclusive "club i-mate" available only to owners of i-mate branded Windows Mobile phones... here he is being interviewed by Dutch fans of Windows Mobile and this interview has been published in audio as a part of a podcast!
Some highlights from audio interview with Jim Morrison:
- he is Scottish
- his interest and history with PDAs and mobile phones is discussed
- first contacts with HTC
- dependency on HTC among windows Mobile phones
- 3G versus Wi-Fi
- the history of i-mate
- doing business in Dubai
- why customers should buy i-mate rather than Qtek and other brands that sell HTC made phones
- embedding Skype into ROM of i-mate branded phones, future of Skype
- Wi-Fi to be embedded in all future i-mate phones (meaning: Skype runs well with Wi-Fi)
- using Skype on GPRS, EDGE, CDMA-EVDO, Wi-Fi, etc
- first i-mate phones powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 will be launched at GITEX trade show in Dubai on September 24, 2005
- there will be no upgrades with Windows Mobile 5.0 for existing i-mate branded Windows Mobile phones; as excuse Jim mentions too little memory
- (GPS based) nagivation
- i-mate to release also a PDA with built-in GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth but no built-in phone functionality; by now i-mate was relesing only Windows Mobile phones (Pocket PC phones and MS Smarpthones), but not PDAs
To learn more or to listen to this audio interview click here.
Credit: Wouter from PocketInfo.nl (Netherlands, EU).
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