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Old 02-01-2010, 10:31 AM   #3
Polydwarf
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Device: SmartQ V7, Cybook Opus
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Originally Posted by ChineseGadgets View Post
If you're going for the SmartQ, Linux is by far the best OS. It's not that hard to use, all you need to know is how to install an app ('sudo apt-get install appname' in the terminal). Other than that, it just works like windows with a desktop, start menu and file explorer. There is also a lot of information to be found on this and other forums.
I've been a linux user for years, and an ubuntu user for the past couple of years; that's not a scary thing for me.

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Windows CE is quite horrible and Android is just plain unusable on the SmartQ. Android is slow, buggy, half Chinese and designed for capacitive touchscreens.

The only benefit of Win CE is that it's a bit faster.
Sounds like the Q7 or the V7 will be fine for me. Should I be at all concerned about the Q7 being left behind, as far as support/etc goes, since the V7 is the successor to the Q7? Or are they sufficiently similar that firmware for one works on the other?
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