Hi all.
Saw you discussing the Everun so I thought i'd pop in to answer questions if anyone has them.
Battery life is a definite 4 hours. (Batt capacity is, I think, around 26W/hr) and there's an extended battery which will add 3 hours to that. ALTHOUGH, its possible that my demo device is not fully optimised. For example, I can't turn the Wifi off which, if I could, would save another hours battery life. BT is always on too. The SSD version (solid state disk) will also save battery life and make it quicker, a little lighter and more rugged. $700 for the base 6GB ssd version seems like a bargain to me.
The Geode processor is slow, yes, and has no hardware Direct-X support. BUT, its 2D support is quite amazing. It also has the advantage that all graphics support is on the CPU die meaning no extra GPU to take up power. In the
applications performance demo video I made, you'll see a fairly acceptable performance from most apps and amazong performance from Divx/Xvid videos Voip is not 100% perfect.
If anyone has questions, either ask here (i'll try and check back as much as I can) or in the UMPCPortal forums where I, obviously, hang out!
This e-reader aspect has got me interested. i might try and use it in ernest to read a book and see how it goes. i tried mobipocket, does anyone else have any suggestions for good software? It annoys me that mobipocket puts a couple of page turn columns onto the screen. They're obviously not needed on this device.
S.