I will probably take the Imate Jamin next month when I upgrade my cellphone contract, and last week I went and looked how the phone looks etc. at the company who brings them into South Africa.
I see that our version, the green and red phone button at the bottom is silver, which lets the phone look really cheap, but on all the pictures I have seen, the 2 buttons are black, which looks much nicer.
I want to now if all the other ones overseas have the black buttons?
Thanks
Nope.
I got the Jamin variant and the 'send' and 'end' phone buttons as well as the 'action' button (in the middle of the d-pad) are silver.
I don't think it makes the phone look cheap. In fact I like its form factor very much.
I have it for almost 4 month now and it works very well.
Mmm, wonder why the pictures have them as black, except the middle action button.
Probly comes down to personal choice, but if I compare the picture and the actual phone, the one with black buttons looks nicer for me.
The new production line has the buttons in silver. Older ones have the black buttons which are not present now.
you can buy the central pad with the buttoms in black. serach in ebay and you should find it.
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Hi all,
I got a jamin with silver talk/end buttons and no it is not qtek s200 it is jamin, i find this strange because all the pics that I c for the jamin having black talk/end buttons, even the image on my package and the manuals are with SILVER talk/end buttons!!!
Anybody know if there is a jamin with silver talk/end buttons? what is the difference anyways?
Thanks in advance.
just had a chat session with an imate club advisor, he mentioned that the new Jamin has silver buttons
Then i'm glad i have one with black buttons.
Maybe later it will be a collectors item
The JAMin always had silver buttons sice day one of its release. Maybe the pics you saw is for other variant of the prophet platform like the Dopod or the Qtek.
Sorry for the fast reply before making sure, because I just saw the JAMin on the imate website with the black buttons, the reason for which I said it had silver buttons from day one because I never saw it inreality with black buttons, all the units I saw since the release were with silver buttons. Sorry again for the fast conclusion.
I received one from the first batch at Mad Monkey Boy about 6 weeks ago, I have black buttons.
I have the one with black buttons
Sorry again for the confusion I made, now for sure I know that the one with the silver buttons I've been seeing is the Qtek S200 and not the JAMin. The Qtek S200 is the one released with silver buttons from the start.
samkatta,
yes you are right the qtek has it from the beginning, But I checked my I-mate dealer today and he has the Jamin with silver buttons and he said that it was always like that, keep in mind that the Jamin appeared in my country mid Feb.
Yes rasmy, I know, indeed the JAMin was with black buttons (and still to me as I still have to see the one with the silver buttons).
Sorry again for any confusion that I have made beforehand.
Wait a sec....So, the latest batch does indeed have the silver buttons? I think the black looks better...
I think the black looks better too, but the latest patch is with silver buttons and it looks very good also, but I would prefer it black
ok so i have a wizard and this is my 2nd one.. and my text message envelope and my IE icon have worn off yet again! now t-mobile is sending me a new wizard because i called and cried about this so it will be here on tuesday. how do i prevent these icons from "rubbing" off? im a picky person so when they start to wear off i have a heartattack! any help would be great! thx
Do not touch them.
I've heard from many people to apply a lite coat of clear nail polish. But I never got to trying it.
Interesting - my MDA Vario doesn't have this symptoms (I use those buttons a lot in one-handed Messagign / IEM mode). They must be using some kind of better paint?
Weird never had that problem.
Mine have all just about come off as have a friend of mine's MDA.
That is, is there difference between devices rebranded by different rebranders / carriers? I mean I use these two buttons on my MDA Vario a LOT (one-hand operation rules!) and the icons are like new.
I don't have that problem eather!
I hope this doesn't sound facetious, but if the fact the logos are half-destroyed and looking scruffy is what bothers you, then I recommend you simply scrape them off completely.
You don't particularly need them. I have my 'browser' button assigned to Opera anyway, so I don't want an IE logo there. And the T-mobile logo bothered me, so I scraped that off too. Lots of people have done this (see other threads) - just use the edge of a coin to 'push' the paint away with vertical strokes.
The reason its rubbing off on some devices, and not rubbing off on others because some have these icons painted, and others have it engraved. For example my I-Mate K-Jam has them engraved, so no matter how many times i use them, they won't wear off. Now on the T-Mobile MDA (US) they're painted on, so they will rub off.
My suggestion would be to get the front soft keys from a K-Jam(or other device that has them engraved) and swap it out with yours. That would void your warranty ofcourse.
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I hope this doesn't sound facetious, but if the fact the logos are half-destroyed and looking scruffy is what bothers you, then I recommend you simply scrape them off completely.
You don't particularly need them. I have my 'browser' button assigned to Opera anyway, so I don't want an IE logo there. And the T-mobile logo bothered me, so I scraped that off too. Lots of people have done this (see other threads) - just use the edge of a coin to 'push' the paint away with vertical strokes.
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ok the problem with scraping them off is they are painted on which will cause the blue tooth led and the signal led to shine through and it looks horrible so i will try the clear nail polish idea and on the MDA USA there is no t-zones icon its simply the mail icon and the IE icon which i like both.. im picky
Are the icons on a Cingular 8125 painted or engraved?
The Sale of Goods Act entitles you to a product free from any deficiencies on the finish. The paint falls off these things like no-mans-business. Technically, all UK customers (I dunno about American law) could demand to have the products recalled and to be refunded shortly before the Tytn comes out so that we have some cash to throw at it.
That is not to mention the stylus issue.
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Are the icons on a Cingular 8125 painted or engraved?
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painted.
I haven't had ANY problems with mine coming off at all.
I would just suggest you don't go rubbing dirty/greasy fingers on your buttons and they'll be fine.
what happens in my case is the constant in and out of my pocket action causes the paint to slowly wear
I have my US MDA since March 2006 and the paint on mentioned buttons is half-worn. BUT, it looks like the symbols are engraved AND painted on top. Same thing happened to the small dash signs on the soft-keys - now they look even better than before! The paint was obstacle, and now since I have engraving only, they are semi-transparent and backlit with green and red button LEDs (since they are SEMI-transparent, there is no difference in color between left and right one).
Hello,
I have a Telus branded P4000. Since I had It,one LED in the bottom left of the screen that was always full on - so there was a brighter part always on my screen no biggie.
Today I took apart my phone to see why the DPad stopped working. After I put it back together (done it many times before), I noticed my dpad still not working, but my screen was uniform again?!?!?! no one bright LED. Nice. Take what you will from that.
After that my SD card stopped working. Is that a loose connection I can check? which connection would it be? (plan on checking it over again tomorrow).
Also is there a fix for the dpad not working? all the other hardware buttons work, just not the dpad.
I am guessing since you checked the connections that the dpad is just broken and will need to be replaced. Also you have one lcd with a backlight the bright spot is a manufacturing defect not one bright LED. Most of the time the bright spot will come back and get bigger.
yep I think you are right on the nose.
is there anywhere I can get a dpad?
will one from a titan, mogul or 6800 fit into my P4000? I'm guessing so just want to make sure.
and if you have hook ups let me know
Any pad other than a xv6800 pad will work.
thanks go one on order now
So still no d-pad.
Got a brand new one. Still no d-pad, every other button around it works no problem. But the d-pad does nothing. I can feel it push, but nothing happens.
Is this a software issue? I don't want to wast money on this if it's not going to fix it
I had this HD2 for almost 2 months now.. and the leftmost button is now tad lower compare to the rightmost..and SOMETIMES it does not register the tactile...
I had checked some of my friends HD2 and it's getting the same problem...the leftmost is really just a tad lower..but their lowest button STILL works..is it because mime is the oldest ?
ANyone having the same observation and thus the problem..????
My on/end call button also feels very spongy (brand new handset). I will try and return it in the next couple of days...
I had three of these (sold the fourth unopened) and two of them had dodgy buttons, the other was perfect. I suspect it's mass-production that's to blame but ultimately the buttons do feel 'cheap' on the HD2 and definitely let the side down.
Been using long_press much? its sort of natural to press pretty hard, could account for it.
I was just wondering why they've changed the Galaxy's big center button in the carrier versions? Just so they can fit the ugly carrier logos somewhere...?
Maybe because I am used to the iPhone, I find the 4-button array on most Android phones much more awkward than a center Home button.
Even the Back button is annoying, since I usually operate the phone with one hand, and have to twist my thumb all the way down and to the right, every time I need to go back. It's so much more user friendly to have soft Back button in the upper left corner of the screen.
Ergonomically, the 4-button thing is a step backward - you have to take your eyes off the screen, and in the dark you have to hunt and peck and wait for them to light up.
Just curious how others feel?