Massive Layoffs at i-mate US
i-mate hasn’t shut down its US offices located in Redmond, WA but pretty much everyone on the workforce there likely wishes that Friday never happened. An amazingly large percentage of its Redmond team was told to box their belongings and hit the road this past week. Among those sent packing were the entire engineering, QA, and tech writing departments. Even a few higher-ups who escaped the ambush walked out on their own accord, including the Chief Software Officer and VP of Sales and Marketing. Dark days at i-mate indeed. The massive layoffs likely come in part as a result of i-mate’s difficulties in distributing the Ultimate line of devices. i-mate has a lot riding on Ultimate handsets, as unexciting as they may or may not be, and sales to this point have hardly been what the manufacturer hoped for of course. It’s also hard to buy something if there’s no distribution. So who’s left now that the smoke has cleared? Apparently just enough people to create and maintain an online sales portal. Best of luck to those who were sent on their way.
This is too bad. I-mate has the only good example of VGA video-out. This is one of the most important features we need for the Nirvana Smartphone .
http://nirvanasmartphone.com
Ouch dos anybody know if they mag gsm or cdma handsets or both? Iff they hang inthere they mights ell reall well with the android os.
Wow some more old news and some more Galvatron.
Wow, sad. Personally I was looking forward to seeing the 9502 and hopefully taking one home one day.
Maybe it’s not to late for Microsoft to buy them out after all. Probably be a whole lot cheaper than Yahoo.
Had they cared about and improved their customer support, they wouldn’t be seeing this day. I owned an imate JasJam a year back and was so frustrated with their support.
“On Mar 5, 2008 @ 3:09 am, Jaimin Said:
Had they cared about and improved their customer support, they wouldn’t be seeing this day. I owned an imate JasJam a year back and was so frustrated with their support.”
Agreed. I’m a 3 time iMate customer, I’m done.