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Originally Posted by skyfish
How do you like it? I posted questions about Q7 on a chinese forum. I got a negative attitude overall (none of them have used Q7 though). Most people cited Q5's disappointments. I would like to see more user's opinions on it, especially on the build quality, reliability, and softwares support.
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Honestly, I completely understands the general negative attitude towards the SmartQ 7:
- It is supposed to be a mobile internet device but
--> without proper keyboard, internet experience is very limited
--> there is a virtual keyboard, but when we use it, it uses almost half of the screen space...
--> there is no flash which means no Youtube, Dailynotion or here in CHina no PPlive or Youku...
- Overall performances are quite poor
--> This version of Ubuntu is very limited, and installing other programs is limited
--> video reading is limited. I managed to read Dvix and Mp4 in so-so quality (few lags but readable)
--> The device is slow and has some bugs with tilting screens, reboots...
--> the touch screen is not perfect. When trying to draw on RgbPaint, it does not always answer
As you see, the device is far from being perfect, but for us ebooks/manga/comic books/magazine readers, the device is really great
-I have been waiting for a long time for a color ebook reader and here we are!
-Autonomy is really great. After first recharge, I have been using the device for more than 7 hours (for reading, playing videos, testing performances, surfing the web...) and it is still at about 25%
-FBReader is great to read books
-As most of my books are in PDF format, I mainly use Evince
- PDF can be read in landsacpe mode (perfect for magazines or comic books) or in portray mode (for mangas and books)
-scrolling can be made with the buttons or directly on the touch screen
Personnaly, I will use this device for:
- reading mangas, comic books, magazines, some books in low light conditions
- reading rss feeds in the train/plane
- Picture frame
I bought an 8G SDHC card and it works great. I will go to an electronic market tomorrow to try to find a pouch.
I will post tomorrow some pictures of the device while reading comic books and mangas.
Cheers,
Nico