Firstly, let me thank the 380 people that passed through the live session last night. Your interaction and feedback during these live Q&A sessions is invaluable to us and the other listeners so please make sure you drop in on the next one. It wouldn’t be half as much fun without you.
For those that didn’t get to drop in or only had a chance to see a small part of the session, there are two videos available. The first is the full UMID Mbook M1 overview and Q&A and you’ll need a whopping 1.5hrs to watch it through. Still, if the UMID up there at the top of your list and you want to be 100% sure, we cover absolutely everything from creaking plastic to one of the fastest UMPC web experiences ever. The second video goes briefly over the Viliv S5 (The full, 3-hour-long, S5 Q&A session is here) and then JKK and I make comparisons with the Aigio, UMID and EKing UMPCs. All the devices have their merits so it just depends on what you personally want from a UMPC. By the way, it really was a UMPC fest. None of the devices we talked about were Linux based. An interesting point to note.
Also, credit to Ustream.tv We had some problems at the 2000hr start time but once we’d got through an obvious rush on Ustream services, everything went very smoothly. If you have a minute (haha!) pop over and rate the show in the Ustream channel.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:52 pm
For UMPC nuts only! 2.5hrs live testing and Q&A video with UMID, Viliv, Aigo UMPCs. http://cli.gs/WT4Rpv
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Hey, thanks so much for putting these videos up!
I was just wondering if anyone recorded the 3hr Q&A for the T1028M touchnote? I’m pretty hooked, but I’m looking for more hands-on video. I already looked at the 1hr video that you posted, but it cut out before the Q&A session.
chippy Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:00 am
Only the 1hr (the main section) of the T1028M Q&A is available.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1359385
Sorry.
Steve
chippy Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:17 am
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1359066
I found anoher part of the Touchnote review!
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 pm
As what i see in the video… its seems that it is a universal audio headset for japanese and korean cellphones… the same plug for sharp and samsung cellphones…
if thats the case, there are converters and also better headset available…
its the same plug for sharp 903/905/906, and various samsung cellphones….
(samsung cellphones maybe have different plugs for US and EU models)
(sharp 903/905/906 are not officially available outside of japan)
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 pm
http://cgi.ebay.com.my/12-SHARP-703sh-816sh-903sh-904sh-920sh-922sh-headset_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQitemZ200310183709
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
the above link… shows alternative headsets using that plug… (with mic)
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
which also include a converter…for 3.5m
chippy Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 am
Thanks comscier. Good info.
melmo Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 pm
I thought the same thing as comscier, so I picked up a converter from a dollar store in Tokyo (hyaku en shop). It doesn’t fit. It’s quite possible I bought the wrong converter, but it was in the cell phone section and it was the only headphone converter on the shelf.
Unfortunately I dumped the packaging, so I can’t really confirm what it is.
Apparently I should have bought a whole bunch of them and sold them off on eBay
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 am
A new Viliv video just posted on Engadget. 21 minutes long.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/viliv-s5-unboxed-in-beautiful-epic-video/
anon Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 am
That’s the JKK’s unboxing video of the one and only 3G SSD Viliv S5. It arrived the next day from this live session.
Kim Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:55 am
hey viliv s5 has no SSD….
JC Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
viliv announced a model with 3G and an SSD at their website. According to JKK, that’s the one they sent him for evaluation. For all we know though, he may be the only person outside of viliv who has an unmodified viliv S5 that has an SSD. I don’t think viliv has announced a release date for the 3G SSD model.
Kim Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
At least not in Korea, thats for sure.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:25 am
Just for those wondering, I’m pretty sure that the mbook will boot off of CD. I think Fixup installed WinXP from CD on his Linux model.
sean Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:28 am
hah, durr, didn’t finish the video, I see JKK got it to boot.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:10 am
I watched the video but couldnt find the part where the EKing was mentioned. What was the gist of that back and forth? Chippy likes the UMID over the EKing? If so, why?
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:27 am
Regarding the odd standby time differences, it sounds like the process the old Libretto went through. The laptop would keep RAM powered on for a set amount of time (5mins, etc), and then after that cache the RAM to HD. If you came back within the 5 mins, power on was almost instant, but after that it would take a while.
animatio Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:43 am
in some machines one could choose if standby was to ram or to disk.
but one important thing in regard to fast hybernation is: you have to keep the system defragmented (hyberfile as well as sysfile) and the registry clean. both things can slow down not only the system over all, but especially these processes, besides hampering them.
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:14 am
I don’t think 3G version of M1 will ever be released in Korea…
Korean Telecom componies don’t except such a machine with 3G..
Some compeny don’t except phones unique UI either
We don’t even have Iphone….
Those brats..
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 am
Thanks for these, Chippy. I only got to see some of it so will download the UMID one to see later. Still no viable replacement for my OQO on the horizon, though.
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 am
Isn’t there a forum post that says the SSD runs slow AND hot??(review by fixup) You can’t rely on boot times and application loading times as being a “fast” SSD because that’s the inherent strength of using flash memory. The problem is, your USB stick can probably achieve the same thing.
The differentiating factor for SSDs are the write speeds. ALL NAND flash memory used in SSD NEEDS to read the data, store the data temporarily on a buffer, then write it back when you want to write to flash the SECOND time.
See, hard drives can never ever catch up to read speeds of even the slowest flash memory, but they will never temporarily freeze the system(called a “stutter”) which will happen on a mediocre SSD that is logically full.
Plus, they are cheap.
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Check out Chippy’s (UMPCPortal.net) latest video comparison; UMID M1 pocketable computer vs Viliv S5 MID http://tinyurl.com/d573lz
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I am just a bit curious why people here are calling UMID as you- mid . It should be called as you am ai dee, according to company website.
April 25th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
One thing about DMB in mbook. they don’t work in South Korea either…
At least in most part and ‘most part’ means places where other DMB devices
work fine…
May 9th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
@fishcube Live umid session was some weeks ago! http://bit.ly/1anbAI