The SmartQ V7 is now available at Allpmp for $238.90/€159.60 and is dubbed an ‘HDMID’, which basically means it now also supports HD video up to 1080p. Ofcourse, watching hi def movies on a 800×480 screen wouldn’t be tremendously useful, so Smart Devices decided to drop the USB OTG port and replace it with an HDMI port. They also decided to double the RAM and built-in flash memory to respectively 256MB and 2GB, so the device should work a bit more snappy. Sadly, all this comes at a rather steep 25% price increase, which almost places this device in the netbook price range. Luckily the SmartQ 7 is still available for $189.10/€126.33 for those who don’t need HD video playback.
does it really play 1080p videos?
i saw even 720p videos play on smartq 7 can not start!!
Yes, this one plays 1080p videos (well at least those properly encoded). The SmartQ V5 and V7 have hardware media decoding, so the video playback won’t be as sluggish as on the SmartQ 5/7