If you got all excited about the upcoming
MIMO 710-S, Nanovision's slinky refresh of its earlier
UM-710, but then felt like someone took the wind out of your proverbial sails when you learned it lacked a touchable screen, we'd advise you to hold fast and ready that metaphorical spinnaker. The company has confirmed there's another new version coming over the horizon, the 720-S, featuring the same 7-inch, 800 x 480 panel, but now granted touch capabilities. You'll need to exercise a bit of restraint, as they're not due to ship for another month or so, and while we don't know exactly how much it'll displace from your wallet one UK site has a pre-order up for £130 (about $215). We do plan to be putting a 710-S through its paces shortly, though, which might just help to tide you over.
posted Aug 10th 2009 9:41AM
God i need two of these with the quickness. One just for photoshop tools and another just with the console to tail logs!
Yeh, I can't understand for the life of me why I actually WANT to buy one of these screens for $200 but I would NEVER buy a 22" or 24" LCD at 1920x1200 or so until they drop to $100
Would be cool with multitouch.
For that price you could have another monitor...
That's what i want on my desk... yet another shitty 22inch monitor. When instead i could have two of these mounted however i want them taking up minimum space and getting the job done perfectly. Also they are USB so no need to more videocards.
I don't really get it. What makes this better than another 22 in monitor? I mean, releasing the mouse and touching the screen isn't really any faster than clicking something on a second screen...
Sure you save a little space, but you add two of these, and that's 14 inches...Just short of a full display. Add in the actual mount is has there and your probably right at 18 iches.
I guess you could set them up like little bunny ears on your monitor...I guess that could be fun,
Actually they use a USB video cards (something has to do the image processing) and USB video cards are slow as hell, unless this is using a predefined image on a PIC chip and is only sending touch data (A PCI-express card talks to the Mobo @ up to 80Gbps, USB is 480Mbps, you do the math). USB buses can usually only support bandwidth for one USB monitor (and usually very little else because of the constant high data transfer). And eat away at your resources. Why not just buy a 14'' monitor, they go for like 100 bucks and run it off the video card like its ment to.
Not that it would have killed you to look, but directly underneath the picture on the mimomonitors.com site:
710-S Model Coming Soon, Pre-order Today!
price $149.99
I guess we'll never know just how much it will displace from our wallets...
oh shit, 720-s, my bad - disregard!
I'm confused by the availability, pricing, and model numbers of Mimo's lineup...
What would the difference be between a potential 720-s (710-s with touch capabilities?) and the already available 740? Apparently the 740 is available now for $219.99. OR I could wait and maybe spend around $215 dollars on the 720-s - the same size/resolution monitor as the 740 WITHOUT the webcam and microphone?
I've received my um-710 today !
Near my Dell 30' inch, it's very nice to put chat, iTunes, and Zatto on the litte.
@ mcolburn
The 740 is the complete model (sound, in out, etc...)
the 710-s is the 'enhanced and redisigned for netbook' version of the 710 with touch screen
Slim yet touchable... just the way I like it. ;D
Total recession antidote :)
Anyone know who is the touch technology from? A sleek Synaptics module or a home-grown solution?
Just what I want, a herd of gadgets everywhere cluttering up the place. Why not just use vnc to a virtual screen on your mobile.
I'm slim yet touchable...
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Question; would it be possible to connect the touchscreen one with a 3g phone and use it as a mobile browser?