SmartQ 5 gets peeped, for reals
By Laura June 
posted March 11th 2009 1:01AM
posted March 11th 2009 1:01AM
We've been hearing all about the SmartQ 5 PMP / MID for a little while now, but someone's finally gotten their hands upon a real live device, and it's looking pretty cool. We still don't know a ton in the way of specs -- it's got a 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 touchscreen and built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, plus four actual hardware buttons -- nor do we know when it's going to be available, or how much it'll cost... but it definitely appears to exist now! Check two more shots after the break, and hit the read link for a bunch of them.
[Via The MP3 Players]
[Via The MP3 Players]
content from the read link says After all, it only cost you RMB899 (approx US$132)! not bad, but not sure how useful this is and netbook is just a lot better.
It will cost around 130 usd.
I first read "SmartQ 5 gets peepeed, for reals"
hey man, it's china O_o ...
Do we have any ideas on specs? Could be a nice alternative to the N800 if it is running on something recent like the Cortex series or SnapDragon.
Awww, you beat me to it =:( So im guessing this is something like the n810 right? is it any better?
Nice Bokeh effect/Wallpaper by Fábio Sasso... :-P my favorite wallpaper by him.
does it run doom? ... i havent been here in a while, are people still saying that?
Yes, all the time. Keep saying it, it makes you look cool.
sweeeet
It evolved into Can it run Crysis?
Bt ? Ok this is what y'all wanted so now u can get rid of your iPod touch. Drive to nearest smartq flagship store n pick one up, touchkiller has arrived. NOT!!!!!!!!!!no american in their right mind would chose this over king of all pmps., geared for third world countries, low qual,buggy,plasticky.,etc,next. No ipodtouchkiller here!!!!flagship store , LOL!!!!
Who the hell evem mentioned the iPod Touch?
@ Shank/douche
where do you think the "ipoo'd" touch is made from?
Is that Gnome or XFCE running on that device?
Who cares? It reads "Designed in California", where hot chicks are engineered. That's all it matters.
i won't tell you guys things i don't know or stuff i never used before~ so here's what i know about SmartQ's product (in particularly T5-II):
it supports almost every movie (rm/rmvb, wmv, avi, flv, mp4...) and music (mp3, wma, ape, flac...) formats, and a lot of simulator like gba, md sega, neogeo (the one i love most~ KOF, metal slug...), nes, snes... therefore, it really save myself a lot of time on format converting! and lastly it does not cost much at all (like $100 bucks sth.)
so i do think this SmartQ's coming little device will not let customers down~ (if you want sth. pocketable unlike netbook, and cheaper than MID!)
The desktop environment is LXDE. It will also include FBReader, a web browser, PDF reader, Bluetooth, and WiFi.
There's a couple of reasons the price is so reasonable: one is there will probably be no built-in memory, which is in keeping with previous SmartQ products. All your files are stored on SD cards and swapped out via the card slot. The other is that in order to keep the price down and get this thing out the door, it's quite possible SmartQ is recycling the platform of their previous player, the TAO. If so, the processor will be an ADI Blackfin. Even if the platform is all-new, SmartQ has been a longtime and exclusive ADI customer, so there's no reason to think they'd be switching now. There would also be a Wolfson codec for handling audio if the recycled platform theory is correct.
All in all, a huge leap for the Chinese DAP industry and it will be interesting to see what kind of community develops for the Q5 considering the Linux environment and use of GPL software.
Are you sure they use ADI's blackfin? If so, that really sucks. ARM is nice because it is gaining a lot of linux support from major linux players like Ubuntu. Blackfin on the other hand....not so much.
It looks a lot like the fake mac touch netbook.
the articles on their company website say that the device run on an ARM processor[not sure which] and runs ubuntu. all for RMB899. not too shabby................
download smartq5 new software and firmware from www.jiongtang.com/blog/
firmware v2.0 released today
http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/05/smart-devices-q7-7-pad-for-189
Q7 - 7" version $189