BoEye MID700 unveiled with Android OS, vaguely familiar form factor
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Nov 11th 2009 4:31PM
posted Nov 11th 2009 4:31PM
BoEye -- a company we've seen from time to time in the eBook reader space -- has been recently spotted at Dubai's GITEX with its own take on the Android MID. Aside from some obvious (and, quite frankly, tedious) comparisons to the mythical Apple Tablet, we don't have too much to report: some excessively iPhone-esque features, including silver bevel, capacitive glass touchschreen, and that familiar solitary button on the bottom of the screen; a front-facing webcam; and, of course, that open source OS you crave. If you ask us, our favorite part of the affair is the rumored sub-$300 price tag -- makes this one well worth keeping an eye on, at any rate. One more pic after the break.
I gotta see how this performs before I yell KIRF, like you'll hear pretty soon.
My computer; Google Chrome does a good job of auto-correcting any words I might misspell. You should take this into account =]
I hope Jobs puts out the Apple tablet so that I see the comment section covered by people saying how Apple ripped off BoEye
Thank you BoEye, I now have a greater appreciation for the Archos tablet.
Thank you, Engadget, for hinting us that its has the looks of the iPhone/Touch... Where would we be without you.
LOLz
Well I bet you £100 000 that someone, albeit someone extraordinarily anti-apple or fanboish will deny the fact it looks Anything like an Apple creation. Just wait for it....
THIS LOOKS NOTHING LIKE AN IPOD!! NOTHING I SAY! NOTHING!
If that is indeed true, then I will tell that person that they look nothing like their father; they look like me, cuz you know....*grins*
Looks like a giant iPod Touch.
You ain't see nothin' yet!
muhahahaha!
Funny, I though it looked liked the HTC Tilt. Damn me and my bad eyesight
@ Teerim
That's what she said!!! *kapow*
HTC tilt was heavily inspired by Apple's mobile design, it shows you how generic Apple's design has become ( the fact it's been borrowed so much)
The Tilt?? Really...REALLY!? I don't see it.
Damn, i got the tilt confused. I was referring to the phone in your picture. Darn my eyesight
LMAO Oh.
Well for AT&T that's the Tilt 2...but yeah, I was referring to the original Tilt, lol.
even the very simple home-button is a rip off :D
So if Apple will make something similar then it will be KIRF?
all this tells me is that a giant ipod is not what i want for an apple tablet.
i certainly hope if apple ever does make one, its not this.
i do hope they carry similar price tags though =D
i dont want a mac tablet anyway though so....
Don't worry. The Apple tablet won't be a giant iPod. It'll be a giant iTunes Store that happens to play your purchased and rented content.
I have absolutely no interest in a tablet device that doesn't have proper stylus support. Do these companies even know what tablets are useful for? An iPod Touch that won't fit in your pocket isn't exactly a desirable product these days.
how can it look like the apple tablet?
that thing doesnt exist and this does
if anything the tablet would look like this android MID
Wow, somebody ripped off the CrunchPad before it even came out.
Yup, very familiar form factor. They have those on lots of planets, for landing ships on.
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What's that? What do you mean it's not about the pyramid?
http://szboeye.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008834669585/pdtl/Mobile-internet/1023336221/Mobile-Internet-Device.htm
* 5-inch 16:9 TFT 16 million colors touch screen
* Resolution: 800 x 480
* CPU: Samsung 6410 and frequency upto 667MHZ
* Operation systerm: Windows CE 5.0
* 3.5mm earphone port and 2.0 mini USB port
* External SD/MMC card up to 8GB
* Supports Bluetooth 2.0 and wifi
* Supports 3G (EVDO module)
* Support Microphone in and audio out
* Built-in dual stereo speakers
* Built-in NandFlash 128MB
* Built-in GPS and DVB-T
* Builit-in 1.3 Million camera
* Built-in RJ-45 port and USB port
* Built-in LED backlight and lightness is adjustable
* Supports Txt, PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, CHM and HTML files
* Supports image formats: JPG, BMP, PNG and GIF
* Supports Mp3 formats: WMA, MP3, WAV and AAC
* Supports video formats: MP4, WMV, AVI, 3GP and ASF
* Supports QQ, MSN, Skype chatting tool
* Supports opening animation and password input
* Supports E-mail receive and send
* Supports JAVA application and simple game play
* Calendar/clock/calculator
* Supports multi-language
* supports PC mouse and keyboard input
* Font size is adjustable
* Supports music background play
* Supports input Chinese, English, digit and symbol
* 2,100mAh lithurm battery supports continuous uses upto 5 hours
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That's not the one.
As you can clearly see: http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3809/1003324s.jpg
There's no similarity to my iPhone whatsoever...
The original article is from techlahore.wordpress.com. By the way. Paul-Engadget, the device you cut&pasted isn't the one. 5" screen and Windows CE? I don't think so.
I wonder if the ancient Egyptian builders would be pissed that their pyramid was being knocked off?...
i want this one
Dear Engadget, please provide proper attribution. The original article and the pictures are from techlahore.wordpress.com.
regards,
Tech Lahore.
Yeah!
I'll give apple this, they have a few interface methods that make people love their device... after being a paper weight for months when I got my 5800 XM, I got my Iphone 3g back out (sans SIM, use Joikuspot while out and about and normal Wifi at work and home) and have been impressed with how well the zoom and navigation works.
This goes onto my point... being that I own a real tablet (Latitude XT, multi touch, capacitive with digitizer for a stylus) I can tell you that if I were to buy a device like this, resolution would need to be higher. My vision is pretty damn good, but even if it wern't if you gave the tablet proper graphics support through ION or Tegra (depending on the application) or the like you could implement pinch zoom in the whole OS as a core feature like a mouse cursor would be on a computer.....
I would rather have a 1280x720 6" device then a damn 800x480 8in one, as you could always make most of the screens default to a smaller resolution, or once again take advantage of the native multitouch zoom..... I think it's the only reason why I don't use my $3,000 XT that much, is because it's only 1280x800... not horrible, but when in tablet mode, I find myself wishing I had a vast expanse of screen content to manipulate with my hands.
Remember, resolution > screen size when displaying information, and with multitouch zoom implemented similar to the Iphone (but as a core of the OS) you could effectively double the native resolution of one of these between the pocket and backpack devices while still keeping it practical for prolonged use without eye strain (just like when you used to open doom and it would change the videocard to 640x480).