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Chippy, I watched your youtube movies and read your posts which are both great. I've one question about the pdf reader. You mentioned that the pdf reader is evince. Can you reflow the pdf text with it? Is it possible to add real pdf reader on it? Thank you for your attention.
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Why do I want this device? I guess it is the 7" nokia tablet I have always wanted.
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I read books on both a Nokia N800 and an iRex Iliad. I like the Iliad for the larger screen, but I can't see any difference between the two with regard to eye strain. I've tried other eInk readers as well as the Iliad and find that the contrast between the type and the background is inadequate. This is not true of backlit LCD's. I think the whole issue of eye strain is something concocted by the eInk people to sell more machines. Certainly it's something I've never noticed, and I've used both kinds of screen intensively. My worry about the Q7 is different -- does it allow you to turn the brightness down enough for reading in a dark room in bed? The new OS of the N800 does not, but fortunately someone wrote a program that does. It is extremely uncomfortable reading at night on a screen that is too bright.
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Lowering brightness is critical to reading for extended periods on any LCD in my opinion. For example, the default brightness on my eeepc901 is way too bright and would both kill the battery too soon and be hard to use even for web browsing.
I'm hoping once Maemo is running that the brightness app from the N800 could be loaded onto the smartq 7 ?? |
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It surely can. Glad I could help.
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I just received an email from the company I ordered the device from. They wanted to let me know they had some users who had success getting Windows CE 6.0 to run on the device using the SD card. Pretty cool.
http://www.eletroworld.cn/nb/Service...in%20SmarQ.htm And here are screenshots of a very early build of Mer for the SmartQ 7. This isn't ready to be used as your OS on the SmartQ 7 quite yet, but its not far off either. I'm chatting with the Mer team every day to check out their progress. They really are a great bunch over there at maemo.org. http://www.eletroworld.cn/nb/Service...mer%20team.htm Last edited by ColdSun; 05-27-2009 at 12:53 AM. |
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Is there a screen brightness control?
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Windows C.E. is perhaps even better (for me), i'm just not sure it will work well with 128MB. But i don't know anything about windows CE. Quote:
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I just read the thread on mer Q5/7 on talk.maemo, VERY interesting, this looks exactly like the type of hacking that I enjoy. Not the development part, but installing etc. I suppose I could live with the original software for the month or two before they come up with a proper mer release for it. The reason why I wasn't so interested in nokia tablets, even though I had a good experience with the 770, was that they were locked down and they didn't support older models with new software. With a community distro all this is solved, which makes me a happy man.
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Youch just got my quote for Slovenia(you know in the EU not that much farther than germany, austria, italy) $270 plus the 20% VAT I'd have to pay and it's $330. I think I'll go with the openpandora that comes in at the same price point. Or maybe I'll go with the t91 depending if it's available. Or I just might go with the nokia N900.
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Hi All.
My review on the Q7 is up now.... http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/05/sm...dle-and-crunch Chippy. |
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I'm speaking with another reseller that's trying to get this into Europe. Will update if I hear anything concrete. |
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Ouch, 80$ for postage is harsh. Luckily for me that with postage to finland it only costs 230$, which is reasonable even after VAT which is quite harsh at 22%, all in all, I'm looking at around 200€, which is A-OK as far as I'm concerned.
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