Trying to remember old model smartphone

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#285924 25-May-2021 22:21

Hi Guys

I am trying to remember a specific model of smartphone I used to have.
I cannot remember if it was on Vodafone or Telecom but what I can remember

- Ran Windows Mobile ~6 without a touch screen or stylus
- Black color with full qwerty keypad and bubble shaped buttons
- Square screen
- Looked very similar to the shape and size ratios of a Palm Treo or a nokia Asha 200 (which runs simbian)
- I was impressed at how well windows ce/mobile ran on a cut-down button-only interface.

I cant even remember what brand it was but i thought it might have been nokia

Did anyone have something similar?

Its close to this but obviously not the one

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#2713010 25-May-2021 22:30

I was going to say HTC Snap but you said it ran well.

God i hated looking after a fleet of those.

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#2713012 25-May-2021 22:32

The one I am thinking of is the Palm Treo Pro (https://www.gsmarena.com/palm_treo_pro-2494.php) which ran on Windows Mobile 6.1 however did have a touchscreen. This was in the Telecom XT days and was quite a popular phone. The other I can think of is the Motorola Q8 (https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_q8-1232.php) which I believe was a Vodafone exclusive back in the day. Happen to be either of those two?

Edit - As above, I think the HTC Snap was a Telecom XT device and was horrible!

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#2713014 25-May-2021 22:56

i-mate JAQ4 ? I had an i-mate Sp3 back then.

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#2713016 25-May-2021 23:08

Found it!!!!

Thanks @michaelmurfy you were so close and led me to it.
It was the palm treo 500v - the model before the pro.

Unfortunatley none for sale on trademe

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#2713066 25-May-2021 23:28

I had a Palm Treo - got it free when Vodafone closed their shop on Ponsonby Rd & simply ditched so much cool stuff in a mini skip bin. That was a very useful tool for quite some time.

iMate was one of the multitude of brands that were produced by HTC in yet another failed attempt by Microsoft to create mobile phone market share. Blue Angel was another, there was at least 20 other brand names used, iMate was chosen for NZ. HTC didn't sell under their own moniker until the end of that tragic experiment.

As a Foundation 200 member, I was a very early adopter on Vodafone's new-fangled digital mobile network, thanks to initial CEO Keith Davies who had bought a Jaguar from me. The dreaded rubber-band noise as your GSM phone lost signal was a daily occurrence. Voda sent us new handsets every month or so, some good, others not. Two years of no-charge mobile phone use made up for the constant dropouts while they built their network.

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#2732333 21-Jun-2021 21:38

I had the Palm Treo 750 in Australia.

I bought it as it proclaimed internet sharing via usb, but couldn't get it to work until I found out it needed me to upgrade the OS to Windows Mobile 6.

It was a godsend back in the days when my customers frequently had their ADSL speed limited to 256kbps.