I ordered this device a couple weeks ago from dynamism during their US launch. I have been using a Nokia N800 for the past year and a half and carry it with me everywhere. The N800 suffers from a painfully slow CPU and its funky build of Linux (Maemo) with a severe lack of ported applications that run on the device.
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....
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I ordered this device a couple weeks ago from dynamism during their US launch. I have been using a Nokia N800 for the past year and a half and carry it with me everywhere. The N800 suffers from a painfully slow CPU and its funky build of Linux (Maemo) with a severe lack of ported applications that run on the device.
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....