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Onkyo tablet PC with integrated GPS module

ctitanic — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:00:47 +0000

The Onkyo Tablet PC reminds me my Fujitsu P1610, a powerful looking body with a weak heart. Come on OEMs is time to move over and put some pressure on Intel. An Atom at 1.33 is good but not enough. At 1.66 GHz you still feel the load when playing multimedia files even when you have an ION chip.

The tablet is powered by Atom Z520 processor (1.33 GHz) and has an 80GB HDD, 1GB RAM, Intel US15W chipset, two USB ports, an ExpressCard/34 slot, SD/SDHC/MMC/Memory Stick Pro slots, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, 802.11n Wi-Fi and two web cams (3MP and 0.3MP) on board. The display is a (7 inches) touch screen with 1,024×600 resolution.

Via CrunchGear

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UMPC-891A, a new 8.9” Tablet (?)

ctitanic — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:04:36 +0000

I put a question mark on Tablet because the UMPC-891A comes with just Windows XP and it’s known yet if it’s Windows Touch Compliant, let’s hope it’s.

The price, according to what Engadget is reporting, is around the price Microsoft dreamed for the first generation of UMPC released about 2 years ago. Are we witnessing a resurrection of the UMPCs?

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Unboxing the Viliv S7

ctitanic — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:44:00 +0000

JKK has received a Viliv S7 and has posted the traditional unboxing video.

YouTube – Unboxing Viliv S7 UMPC

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Viliv S7 is not Windows Touch Compliant

ctitanic — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:41:24 +0000

I have been asking some information about this device at UMPC Portal, and I got this screen shot from the Device Manager of this device.

In there you can see the Jastec RU Touch Screen Controller listed under Mice and nothing listed under HID Compliant Devices. This means that if Windows 7 is installed you will be missing all the Touch Screen features that come in this OS. Another device that is not Windows Touch Compliant.

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The Archos 9 may not be a Touch Compliant mini Tablet

ctitanic — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:17:00 +0000

I’m going to start calling Touch Compliant to those devices where the hardware/drivers installed are not supporting all the touch screen functionalities of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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eGalax Touch Screens are not always USB-HID compliant.

ctitanic — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:56:49 +0000

eGalax Touch Screens are not always USB HID compliant and if they are not USB-HID Compliant then they are not Windows Vista/7 Touch Compliant .

Are you affected by this issue?

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Few notes about W7 in a Viliv X70

ctitanic — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:33:00 +0000

Thanks to Dynamism I had the chance of testing a Viliv x70 and even more, install W7 on it. This is not a guide, these are just few notes about the process.

The device has only one USB port, buy a little USB port where you can connect your USB Mouse, keyboard and a bootable USB Memory stick with Windows 7. I used this tool to prepare the USB Memory.
Download from Viliv all drivers and uncompress them in a folder in your bootable USB. Windows 7 wont recognize the WiFi and the Touch Screen. This is why is so important to have the WiFi driver ready. The touch screen driver that I recommend is the eGalax Beta for W7. Still this is not a HID and as result Windows 7 will not recognize this device as a Tablet PC or a device with a digitizer. This means that you will miss some of the touch features that we love very much from Windows 7.
To boot from the USB, turn on the unit holding pressed the button B. Using the Joystick select the option of booting from the USB.
To install W7 select the 24 Gb unit, click in advance, and format.
When the installation of W7 is done, install the WiFi, reboot and run windows update. Once you have installed the updates then install the touch screen driver. Check the device manager, you will find a device marked with !, update the driver using the files in the folder EC_IO downloaded from Viliv.
Keep installing the rest of the software download the Viliv. For CubeUI you will need to download Air from Adobe.

Windows 7 Index for the Viliv x70. Average 3.48

As comparison point here is the Index for the Fujitsu P1610. Average 3.02

The Viliv X70 overall performs better than my P1610 with a better CPU. The Viliv X70 only needs one thing, a HID for the touch screen . What a crime to have a wonderful device like this no using fully all Touch features of Windows 7 and Office (No ink support).

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Crime and punishment

ctitanic — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:07:00 +0000

The Crime: Install Windows XP Home Edition in a Viliv X70. Punishment: Keep using it without enjoying all the features touch relative available in Windows 7.

The device performs very well, here is the Crystalmark score:

One of the best scores I have seen thanks to a super fast SSD. It’s without any doubt faster than my P1610. Thanks God, I have been authorized to install W7 in this demo device and I’ll do it tomorrow ending my punishment period.

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What my coworkers think about the Viliv x70

ctitanic — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:39:00 +0000

I showed today the x70 to my coworkers, IT Pros with many years of experience. In a brief interview I asked them two simple questions: What they like it and what they did not like it.

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Unboxing the Viliv X70

ctitanic — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:01:00 +0000

Here is a photo report of the unboxing of the Viliv X70.

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Viliv X70, first Impressions

ctitanic — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:02:00 +0000

I received a Viliv X70 review from Dynamism and I have prepared a short video for my Spanish site I the video has subtitles in English, so do not worry I you wont have to learn Spanish.

So far, the design is what have impressed me most of all. This UMPC looks really good, the space around the screen is well utilized and as result the device looks smaller than other devices with the same screen size.

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Have fun with Photo! Editor

ctitanic — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:02:00 +0000

I can’t imagine the amount of good freeware that is around the web and that you don’t know about it. This is the case of Photo! Editor, a program that allows you no only to take your pictures and make them perfect but to create some funny caricatures.

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Viliv S7

ctitanic — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:31:26 +0000

Chippy from UMPCPortal has found at IDF a new UMPC that will be released in the first quarter of 2009. This one has a shape of a mini Tablet PC with a 7 inches display and will use an Atom processor. I hope that it uses the dual core Atom announced yesterday by Intel. That would be nice.

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TEO 3 is free

ctitanic — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:26:38 +0000

I don’t know how I have missed this news about one of the best Tablet PC Applications I have ever tested.

Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 3 has recently been changed for a commercial application to a free for all software program that adds much needed tablet PC support to Microsoft Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2007. It runs on a wide variety of hardware including Tablet PCs, UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs) or an Origami device running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or Windows Vista.

Via ghacks

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iHangMan for UMPCs and Tablet PCs now Freeware

ctitanic — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:12:46 +0000

A short note to say that I have decided to unlock iHangman and release it as freeware.

HangMan is one of older Paper Games known. According to Wikipedia Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two players. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters.

This is a version of the game prepared for UMPCs and Tablet PCs where the computer thinks the word and it’s our task to guess it. The game comes with 3 lists of words, the main list of around 1000 words, the list of Capitals of Countries and the List of Countries names. You can create your own list of words in a TXT file adding one word per row, this feature makes the games virtually new every time that you add a new list of words to be used by the program. This game is a perfect tool to practice your handwriting with the Tablet PC recognizer. You can also use it as a learning tool to teach your kids new words making the learning process a big fun.

Tweaks2k2.com – iHangMan for UMPCs and Tablet PCs

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