SmartQ are upping the stakes in their MIDs with the V7 - an Internet device that boasts full HD 1080P video playback.
Due out in China soon, the SmartQ V7 has an ARM11 processor, built in WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 3G, Edge card and mobile Internet meaning it’ll be hard to not get online where [...]

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More info is trickling through on the V Series SmartQ HD MID.
The device pictured here will support 1080p video playback, as well as 1080p HDMI output.
V Series models will also be able to run Ubintu and WinCE 6.0, as well as Android.
It carries a 600MHz processor, 256MB DDR2 RAM, 2GB flash storage, SD slot that [...]

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Well i finally got to uploading this video review, the ending is cut short a little due to Youtube time limit, also i am not entirly sure why Youtube made this video in to a 4:3 res when the original video is in 16:9.
Anyways hope you enjoy.
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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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The people over at UMPC Portal got their hands on a brand spanking new SmartQ Q7 and done a nice unboxing review of it. The first thing that surprised us was the English OS, which has been lacking on the Q5, we were expecting it to have the same default Chinese language OS that the [...]

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SmartQ Q7 has been already spotted, the form factor, from the images, does look nice, but the colors could be better. The Q7 does seem to be the same hardwarewise to the Q5, but only with a larger screen. This is a bit of dissapointment, with the Q5 OS being sluggish out of the box [...]

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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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Sometimes it seems the only way to find out the accurate hardware info of a MP4 player is to crack it open, thankfully this SmartQ Tao player was opened by a far more skillful individual than myself. Imp3.net has some interesting pictures of the inards of this new MP4 player. Just to note, the pictures [...]

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