http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/ Engadget Comments for Viliv S5 MID detailed impressions, now with video! http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/Mar 11th 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/Mar 11th 2009 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/Mar 11th 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/
My perfect devise would be a small slate tablet (8-10 in) with a actual OS, that has great battery life good resolution and maybe a active wacom digitizer for drawing and such. It also should be as thin as possible. This meets some of those standards and I hope companies take notice.]]>Mar 11th 2009 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/
The point is that although the specs for this device is worthy of a pat on the back, the device has very limited usability over a smart phone. ]]>Mar 11th 2009 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/Limited, LIMITED?????!!!!!!!!!!!
It's got Windows xp on it, it's not a technically a computer, it is one. It's got the same specs as a Vaio P, only it's on XP ( Hallelujah). It' has 6-7 hours of video playing battery life, meaning with it's standby function, this is one of the few pc's that you can carry around with you all day and only recharge it at night so u can carry it all day tomorrow.

It does ( with the right codecs/player combo) 1080p with slight hiccup's , and 720p flawlessly on the mkv format
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvrYL2Xksig
I doubt any smartphone browser can beat this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGW1sEf1WJM
or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psszo-9dsGk
Now chek out streetdeck 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J35AOdit0Xw
Or, if u don't like the small, screen or screen keyboard( which I think is great btw) u can check his brothers:
www.myviliv.com/ces/main_s7.html
www.myviliv.com/ces/main_x70atom.html
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Idk why they wouldn't throw in a 3G radio and a microphone for the thing....

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By the way, the UI looks pretty clever.... why can't we have this on a standard windows install? I wouldn't mind skipping the start menu and just bouncing my way through a series of cubed spheres. Not at all a bad way to get to a destination.]]>Mar 11th 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/
http://www.streetdeck.com/default.aspx?PostID=38

Mostly I'm impressed by Streetdeck, but I also was surprised by how capable the S5 is in running it.]]>Mar 11th 2009 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/
If you already own the S5, that's a lot of $ already spent and I can almost best most pple own a GPS device these days. So to pay another $99 for the convenience isn't something lots of people will want to do.]]>Mar 12th 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/Mar 12th 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/
If you price a Viliv S5 against car-puters, the S5 is a much easier and less expensive way of having a computer in your car. And not only will it work in your car, you can take it out and use it for about 6 hours on battery power. A car-puter can cost up to $2000 plus installation, accessories, etc. Based on the activities on the Streetdeck blog, the Streetdeck guy is turning towards these UMPCs as a better alternative to a built-in car-puter, which makes a lot of sense, as long as you don't mind a smaller screen than you can install in a car.

At the same time, a piece of software that provides easy-to-use touch and gesture controls for GPS, multi-media files (i doubt it plays video files), satellite radio, etc. is exactly what these tiny computers benefit from the most. Although this guy had an in-car environment in mind when he designed the software, Streetdeck is by far the slickest touch interface i've seen for any application running on one of these UMPCs with touchscreens. It seems like the guy could branch out with his existing UI design to offering other variants that handle other functions for different settings.

So, I just find that interesting. I'm personally not in the market for a computer to put in my car right now, and I have no particular interest in a tiny computer that runs Windows.]]>Mar 12th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/Mar 12th 2009 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/Mar 12th 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/Mar 12th 2009 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/viliv-s5-mid-detailed-impressions-now-with-video/
While fatter than the N800, the S5 is a full computer complete with USB host, VGA out, GPS and a X86 CPU that runs Windows XP, Win 7, Linux or whatever (dunno if anyone has tried to turn it into a hackintosh). I don't see why you couldn't run a virtual machine or two although you would run into some serious memory limitations with only 1GB onboard. Text to speech and voice recogniton over a BT headset should prove interesting. If 6 hour movie playback on a single charge is true then surely running all day (not s3 standby) with the screen off should be possible I would think. If the Wi-Fi is sensitive enough this should be fun for wardriving. Does anybody still wardrive?

The lack of a keyboard and 3G is gonna be a dealbreaker for some but data tethering and an external BT keyboard and mouse are possible. Hopefully, this should serve as my UMPC, nav and media player. Mine came with the car kit so I'm eager to try the uber cool looking Streetdeck 2. Being able to use a full office suite - Finally! Why noone ever ported openoffice to Maemo for the N8xx I'll never know. I believe the Atom CPU has enough muscle to handle MAME and SNES emulation. Old games like quake I, II or simcity should be playable. And yes, they do make bluetooth joysticks apparently (who knew)? I saw somewhere that people were able to play WOW on this thing - thats completely nuts! Hell even 720P movie playback to a HDTV usig VGA out is possible. How many pocketable devices on the market can do that now? And how many of those for this price? None that I know of.

My complaints are few so far. I really liked the kickstand prop on my N800 which this doesn't have. IMO, this is probably something all handheld MIDs should have. No internal mic or SD card slots were boneheaded moves. Mine has a 60GB Samsung 1.8" magnetic drive. I guess this was a cost saving move but SSDs and UMPCs were made for each other. Could try cramming one of those in after the warranty runs out and SSD prices are lower if the BIOS supports them. Although not Viliv's fault, I'm waiting for someone to make a good belt clip case for this. On second thought, wearing this on one's belt might severely limit their ability to ever get laid again.... ]]>Jul 6th 2009 2:38AM