In a very exciting preview of the forthcoming Nationite MIDNite Xpress touchscreen MID it’s going to be put through its paces against the SmartDevices SmartQ 5 MID.
Let the games begin…after the jump.

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So i finally got off my arse and did a video review, again i do want to clear up the point on the audio video playback comment i made, i kind of fumbled on what i was trying to say, basically the hardware is too taxed to properly allow for video playback and the audio [...]

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SmartQ today announced two big possible shake ups to their MID line up, not with new products, but with a change in the apparent firmware and UI. Firstly SmartQ has announced the development of a media player only UI dubbed Conola 2, which seems to be a UI dedicated for image, audio and video playback. [...]

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Well SmartQ has released their first update for the Q5, the download is about 160mb in size and looks to add better PDF support and the ability to have aproper desktop (before you were limited to just the one folder icon). Sadly it doesn’t seem like that English language has been implemented yet, but it [...]

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Well we finally got our hands on a SmartQ Q5 MID, i was well excited to finally get to play with this, sadly my first impressions of this player are quite mixed, mostly being of the negative persuasion. The player itself is has a compact feel to it, i snapped some pictures of it next [...]

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