Posts Tagged ‘smartq 7’

SmartQ 7 review

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

For those who don’t know: the SmartQ devices are cheap MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), capable of running Linux and a slew of other operating systems, like Windows CE and Android. They’re used as internet tablets, eBook/comic book readers and much more. After my good experiences with the SmartQ 5, I was curious if it’s bigger brother would be worth the $211.02/€145.72. Would it just be a bigger SmartQ 5 or does it bring anything new to the table? With the SmartQ V7 already being available, the review might be a bit late, but the two devices are mostly similar. So read to see if the SmartQ 7 is worth your hard earned pennies.

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Cheap SmartQ 5 / 7 / V7 accessories, hooray!

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Our friends at DealExtreme finally started selling some cheap accessories for the SmartQ 5, 7 and V7 devices. Nothing too fancy, but soft protective pouches and screen protectors are always nice to have. In typical DX style, the items are dirt cheap and the price includes worldwide shipping. Just get them while you can, because they might sell out pretty quickly.

SmartQ 5 accessories:

SmartQ 7 / V7 accessories:

Custom keyboard layout for SmartQ 5 / 7 MID

Friday, August 7th, 2009

While the default software keyboard of the SmartQ 5 / 7 functions pretty well, there were some things I just didn’t like. The cursor keys had a horrible layout (up, down, left, right on one line), you couldn’t enter any special characters, it didn’t have function keys and the backspace key was just too small. I decided to make my own keyboard layout…

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