When we heard that Alberto, a reader in Italy, was thinking about buying the Benq S6 last week we jumped on him! Flowers, chocolates, anything, just to get him to buy it and report for us. Luckily for us he fell for our plan and yesterday, received a shiny new Benq S6 from TIM in Italy. It costs 429 Euros without a contract (but with a SIM card and some free data minutes) and Alberto appears to be very happy. He’s sent us a big set of photos with a note saying “I start writing today…. in the while believe me, wifi, firefox and Office suite arecool.” Here are the photos. Expect a hands-on report in the next 48hrs and some video playback testing results early next week. In the meantime, Alberto, AKA, TDFS, has offered to answer questions in a forum thread here.
Benq S6 information, specs, links on the Benq S6 product page.
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
seems the images are ever so slightly broken:
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October 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Yeach, all 404′s, good thing gallery works fine
http://www.umpcportal.com/gallery/v/benq/benqalberto/benq_mid_s6-024.jpg.html
http://www.umpcportal.com/gallery/v/benq/benqalberto/benq_mid_s6-017.jpg.html
http://www.umpcportal.com/gallery/v/benq/benqalberto/benq_mid_s6-011.jpg.html
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
As soon as Intel releases the XP driver, I’ll buy one, M528, Aigo, Benq… whichever is available.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Waiting for your hands on.
What can you do with the SIM – is it data only?
How easy is the web surfing?
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Grazie, Alberto.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
One word….CHUBBY! (not Alberto)!
March 24th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
This is the second time I visit your blog and find an interesting article perfectly matching what I was searching for so I decided to add your feed to my RSS Reader. Thanks for you work.