The rear of the K-JAM houses a 1.3-megapixel digital camera, the battery casing, which is locked into position, and the stylus which sits at the base of the K-JAM body, next to the USB port which serves double duty as a data and charging port.

The keyboard itself is understandably very small - fitting into a 108 by 58 by 23.7 millimetre frame doesn't afford you a lot of key space to begin with - but reasonably responsive, and certainly good enough for typing out quick messages, responding to emails or simple document editing. When the keyboard is slid out, the display likewise flips through 90 degrees and becomes an instantly more business-document-friendly widescreen aspect ratio. Those who have used other i-mate products - most notably the i-mate JASJAR won't be too surprised to find that the K-JAM hides a QWERTY keyboard, although unlike the JASJAR, there's no facility to flip and spin the screen it instead simply slides out on the vertical axis, like some kind of slider phone experiment flipped through 90 degrees.

The i-Mate K-JAM, on first glance, appears to look much like any other touchscreen smartphone a simple set of dialling buttons surrounding a five-way selector underneath a 2.8-inch, 240x320 pixel display, which would lead you to suspect that it utilises a naff touchscreen for all of its typing activities.

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