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Off site from the CTIA Wireless trade show in Orlando, at a hotel, iMate showed off its line-up of current and upcoming smartphones, all running on Windows Mobile 6.

There was the JAQ3 and JAQ4, a couple of BlackBerry-like communicators with QWERTY thumb-keyboards, the available in four colors RAZR-thin SPL, tablet-style with a touch screen PDAL, and the ULTIMATE, which will come in five distinct flavors covering the full-range of smartphone form factors with the same basic internal specifications all around.

You can learn more about all these smartphones here.

What really caught our eye, however, was when iMate used one of its smartphones as a Windows Mobile 6 remote control for a 37-inch XStream flat-screen TV that doubled as a Windows Vista computer. There are going to also be 46-inch and 60-inch models by the time this device is available later this year.

And what was even more impressive, from a handheld perspective, is when iMate demonstrated its implementation of Windows Vista Slideshow on one of its smartphones. We saw an iMate representative browse and manipulate files on and view streamed content from a desktop on a handheld via a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection. The smartphone mirrored what you saw on the computer. This software is due to arrive before XStream, probably by the summer.

Windows SideShow uses gadgets, which mini programs (kind of like Apple's widgets) to extend information from your computer to other devices. Microsoft says gadgets can run on a Windows SideShow–compatible device and update that device with information from z computer. With a gadget, Redmond adds you can view information from your computer regardless of whether your mobile device is on, off, or in a sleep power state.