Comments on: Viliv S5 UMPC. Detailed First impressions.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:13:04 +0000

Apparently the headphone jack on the S5 supports MICs!!!

Some guy on youtube got it to work with his iPhone earbuds. You have to make sure the jack has 3 rings (like the iPhone). Then you have to activate the mic input using the Realtek software and set the input to the highest setting.

This makes a big difference for me. Now I just wish they had put an SD slot in.

By: БaкинcкийПиpoг

БaкинcкийПиpoг — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:56:51 +0000

Прикольно. А информацию не с ЖЖ случайно взяли?

By: Lucien

Lucien — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:26:00 +0000

Since most of these sites use flash for streaming video (and no idea how flash works wrt to MP4 streaming), CPU speed is important. And looking at X70 specs seems it’s the same CPU with same frequency. So potentially you wouldn’t get better perf.

Vimeo.com let’s you download the video and if the video is MP4/H264 720p then it will playback smoothly even full-screen. So it’s a matter of format and what flash could do (no idea on that).

I found 320×200 streaming or so works fine on S5. Anything bigger it will starts to stutter.

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:51:16 +0000

Thanks for checking the site Lucien. Its too bad the NYT video stutters. I may still look at the S5 because of its nice form factor, but perhaps I may look at the X70 for hopefully better video performance.

Thanks again!
John

By: Lucien

Lucien — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:14:28 +0000

I just tried nytimes. Full screen stutters. Smaller screen on web site seems to run ok for most video’s (some stutter little bit).
Youtube stutters in HD/HQ as well and I hope we’ll see true MP4 HW playback support someday (in flash?).

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:43:47 +0000

Woh… I searched and found this mic and earphone combined:

http://www.amazon.com/Woodees-IESW100B-Inner-ear-Earphone-Microphone/dp/B001U612R8

Well, not the best but there is a combined mic/earphone jack out there.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:37:42 +0000

Chippy,
Did you try plugging a mic in to the earphone jack? Maybe your version is different? Mine uses the same jack for mic and audio, so there IS a mic input, but if you use it with a mic plugged in, you can only use its own speaker as output. It’s using a Realtek software in system tray to tell you if you have a mic or a earphone plugged in. Could there be a special type of plug that has both mic and earphone combined?

“The battery life indicator isn’t feeding back the remaining time correctly.”

Anyways, about the batter life indicator, did you view that via cubeUI?

To me, I did thought that the 48% thing next to the battery icon indicate how much battery left… if that’s where you refered to in CubeUI. However, I found out that is actually the volume indicator in %. I kept charging and charging, the windows power managment says 100% but in CubeUI it’s always 35%… and when I hit the volumn button, the % changed!!! So that % next to the battery icon is actually volume loudness, and they fixed that in their latest release of CubeUI moving the volume icon % away from the battery icon. Hope that clear up some confusion, even I was dumbfounded for a while thinking my battery isn’t fully charged.

By: Руслан Соколов

Руслан Соколов — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:35:30 +0000

Пока успел прочитать только эту одну заметку, если и все остальное точно также интересно, то автору респект

By: tmarks11

tmarks11 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:47:06 +0000

I would buy one in a heartbeat… if it had an optical mouse.

Joystick cursor control or touch-screen use? Forget it.

By: John

John — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:02:31 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for all the wonderful reviews. I am on the fence w/ the S5. would you have time to test out the quality of the streaming videos from the New York Times (http://video.on.nytimes.com/) on the S5? All I want to know is if the video buffers and plays back properly. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

John

By: чyдoвлюблятcя

чyдoвлюблятcя — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:27:41 +0000

Спасибо за возможность оставлять комментарии на Вашей странице!

By: pieman

pieman — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:05:15 +0000

what is an approx price in Aus dollars for a PC like this?

By: Galileo

Galileo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:01:23 +0000

I never really tested gps since not very usable in hong kong, and thats viliv own io port not hdmi

By: Yuri

Yuri — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:57:28 +0000

Thanks, Galileo

Fisrt, I have to say, that I’ve got Viliv S5 already and now trying to use its full functionality.
1. Just use common GPS software, should be COM1 9600 Baud — I did but Viliv does not see satelites. Does it need external antenna or not?

2. ..but the VGA/Component Cable isn’t available yet . — there is an HDMI port, can it be used?

Regards

Yuri

By: Galileo

Galileo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:40:14 +0000

1. Just use common GPS software, should be COM1 9600 Baud
2. Keyboard and mouse is fine, but the VGA/Component Cable isn’t available yet