smartQ V5 has been officially released now!!
 

http://www.techbonzer.com/cp/html/images/1259776624.jpg

smartQ V5 has been officially released this month in China.i found it from techbonzer.the price is only $178 USD dollars.
the website is www.techbonzer.com


smartQ V5 Features :

Processor: 600MHz

Screen size: 4.3-inch,800 X480 pixels

Memory: 256MB DDR2 RAM

Storage: 2GB Flash Memory

Operating System: Ubuntu Linux(WINCE 6.0/Android option)

Language: Chinese/English

Memory card slot supporting up to 32GB microSD memory cards

Wireless: supports WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth

Output: HDMI 1.3 (1080P)

Connectivity: 2.0 USB HOST supported to connect the high-speed EDGE, HSDPA network adapter or mobile phone

Warranty: One year

Re: smartQ V5 has been officially released now!!
 

sadly it is only an arm11 and not the cortex a8 as far as i know.
but it can be overclocked to 800mhz

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the "touchscreen" is 4.3 inch

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while its tempting, i am going to wait and see what prices the snapdragon&android products that showed up at CES will cost.

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that is pretty cheap for such device. I would buy it though I got N900 already.

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I forget if Mer would run on this. I think it would but that the processor would make it not much more powerful than an N8x0. Nice form factor visually (wish I knew it's actual dimensions and weight), but it's foolish for a device like this not to include a built-in kickstand.

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HDMI 1080P - nice. Good enough to use as a desktop computer replacement, if it had a bit more speed and a lot more memory :)

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yeah i ordered one... was waiting for it... hopefully i can get mplayer/totem plugin to do .flv for me.

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I was waiting for this. A bit disappointed this doesn't have more RAM and higher CPU. Wonder if this can playback 1080P mkv anime files or not?:confused:

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Where did you order it from?

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they claim 1080P playback from mkv containers, so i think it should work.

do note, the upgrade from the smartq5 is dedicated video decoder hardware, while the rest stays mostly the same.

the smartq5 had something similar btw, and used a mplayer variant with unshared modifications, so expect the same here. That is, if one installs something other then the official firmware, playback may be a problem.

and as we are talking about a chinese company that have no external presence, good luck dragging them to court for GPL breach...

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Dragging them to court? Maybe kindly asking them first would be a good idea ;-)

(Although I imagine the real problem lies in the Samsung kernel module for SmartQ5)

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heh, i think someone did already for the smartq5, with no result...

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The updated website, built-in OS: Ubuntu, mer, wince, android, https://www.jiongtang.com/shop/smart...ided-p-93.html

Has anybody check this vendor out?

bun

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thats the smartq5 not the smartq v5.

odd, that place calls the v5 smartv5.
http://www.jiongtang.com/shop/smartv...uard-p-88.html

Re: smartQ V5 has been officially released now!!
 

got mine sometimes last week... after a little ordeal with shipping (not the merchants fault)... i kinda love it... i still need to flash some updates... but pretty awesome... sturdy but am really missing the physical keyboard...

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Wow. If you don't need the phone-ish features of the N900 and don't mind using an OSK only, that's a much better deal.

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I looked at it and from the forums it would seem that as a tablet for Linux geeks who don't need a phone, this could be the answer. Supposedly the Android implementation is very slow and WinCE isn't much better. The device seems to ship with older versions of the firmware and Ubuntu but after updating the Linux crowd seems pretty positive.

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i guess android is slow as the device uses arm11 rather then cortex.

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to be honest i only use the ubuntu mid distro.. but i did boot the others to just play with... wince is chinese by default but theres a cab to fix... andriod was really responsive... but that's also mostly in chinese off the bat so i didn't really spend too much time... but everything worked pretty peppy.

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finally did the upgrades... well only to winCE and ubuntu-mid... apparently andriod has no bluetooth and no dhcp wifi... so no go for me... but yeah tv-oout is great... video playback is surprising.

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They say it runs Mer... lol

https://www.jiongtang.com/shop/smart...ided-p-93.html

Re: smartQ V5 has been officially released now!!
 

that's the "SmartQ 5" not the "SmartQ V5" :P