Viliv S7 — set your eyes on it!
After Kohjinsha SC3 got my attention from its design, it failed me completely when coming to battery life–2 hours or so. Now Viliv, the company I also never heard of, come up with Viliv S7 claiming that it would suck less juice and be able to achieve 7-9 hours on single charge!
And more importantly its form factor won any of their class, IMHO.
Whoa! What an impressive first look from UMPCportal.com. It’s Atom-based device, 1GB RAM, 30/60 GB HDD, 7" touch screen, 1024px * 600px, 830g (including battery) I couldn’t ask for more.
In fact, I don’t believe if this baby could really achieve 7-9 hours life. But by this approximation, I just wish it would get up to 5-hour-battery-life and that would be enough for my need indeed. If the price is right (less than a grand, please), I won’t hesitate to grab one.
Stay tuned! this will be out around the beginning of next year. I hope this company could make this dream come true.
Check out more gallery & info at UMPCportal.com
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Hurting developer’s heart? STUPID MOVE from P*lm
All P*lm developers should be aware, P*lm will follow you guys and ask you “politely and forcibly by the power of the law” to drop off “p” word you are using as your trademark or whatsoever.
This is what Dmitry, one of the most talented P*lm OS developers, had faced. As a result, he had to move his web site from http://palmpowerups.com [06/07/2005] to http://PlmPowerups.com to avoid such a confusion (perhaps because P*lm couldn’t do any better than him?) and change the SDHC driver to “PlmSDHC” since it has no relation or approval from P*lm [of course, since they DON'T EVEN CARE all predecessors' product]
here is the first post of palmpowerups.com:-
Palm Powerups opens
Palm Powerups opens today. This website will offer to you the software needed to make your palm more powerful, usable, interesting, and exciting. The currently available products include UDMH, warpSpeed, skinUI, Picsel Accelerator, and SysNfo. Of course you can expect many more great programs from Palm Powerups in the future, and your ideas are always welcome in the forums
Posted by dmitrygr on Tuesday, June 07 @ 16:50:43 MST (15 reads)
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I haven’t seen anything telling he worked at P*lm, just one developer that wanted to make Palm device more powerful! [which is a good thing for them, right? I'm not so sure if P*lm thought the same way]
P*lmRevolt [1/4/2006] and P*lmInsiderPro [03/20/2006] also got a notice and changed the names to pRevolt and ZInsider respectively. I don’t know what P*lm think really since all these programs and names has been up *PUBLICLY* for many years ; why now?
“The letters P-A-L-M reflect a prized brand with significant customer awareness and earned loyalty,” said Ed Colligan, palmOne president and chief executive officer. “Innovation, power, ease of use, and elegance all are attributes of the brand, and we intend to invest to turn what is a strong name today into a household word synonymous with leadership in mobile computing.”
What they are proud of when getting it back from palmsource [$30M -- 3.5 years installments from 5/24/2005] — I just realized they haven’t paid off it yet! [few more months left =)]
Just putting a note ” *** is not affiliated with or endorsed by P*lm Inc in anyway” isn’t enough? They support you & they do everything to help you get better product but you just want to destroy that, what a shame! although you have all right to do so. How come you haven’t chose more mature way, e.g. releasing policy will effect the software released after this day or something or mentioned this at the first place. Oops I just realize that they probably use Garnet for a long long time without releasing newer OS, so they have to think of such a dated software as well.
It’s just plain STUPID. I think the doom day is closer than you think.
Go back to work, P*LM.
update [2 weeks later]: Palm seemed to react to this issue as they should do firstly which is letting PalmPowerups.com continues its name. However, all product names which has this-4-letter-word still need to abandon their name. I think they ain’t busy working Nova enough.
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Clip-and-Go Dock with Logitech V550
new ideas from Logitech still continues. Now it’s innovative feature called Clip-and-Go
“To meet the demands associated with increased mobility, the V550 mouse offers a complete set of features to make it easier to use a mouse with a notebook when moving from the kitchen to the living room or from one’s desk to a meeting. Now, you won’t have to choose between grabbing your mouse or a cup of coffee.”
It’s real nice idea here. But wait! not only is this new feature, but shape & hyper-fast scrolling are also coming to Vxxx series. In addition, the battery life is extended to 1 and a half year. With the MSRP @59.99. I hope Vx series will be updated to make a distinct pretty soon.
This will hit the store around late this month! Stay tuned!
[via Engadget]
Added [8/17/2008]: the way it hangs on the lid is here and there will be two colors available.
And this model has been up on Logitech.com already!
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Is Dell 90W adapter fragile?
I don’t know whether or not this is widespread problem, but I could find people who face this situation easily with a single search. The same applies to one of my friends; she said that she has this problem with previous and the current machine. For the first machine, she just left behind. However, she brought this to me this time.
The AC power adapter type cannot be determined. Your system will operate slower and battery will not charge.
It’s what you see above; this machine was locked to run as slow as it could–always 800MHz instead of 1.73Ghz. Whether the adapter couldn’t provide enough juice or the DC jack on this board is malfunction was possible here. It was really hard to decide if you didn’t have a spare adapter to test. Therefore, it left me no choice but buying a new adapter to test. Luckily Dell adapter was cheap =) only $28+$9 shipping from portabledetails.com and it took 3 days to arrive.
After I got a replacement–new one has a ground line as a plus, Dell probably realized that laptop case was not the best place as a ground (electrical charge was noticeable on the chassis when I put the old adapter.)
Soon after I popped up new adapter, the Inspiron 9400 was coming alive again; battery was charging immediately and it sucks full 90W–Kill a Watt meter told me. It’s really surprise that this 17″ laptop draws power even more than my desktop!
Briefly, this machine is only 1 and a half years old, and surely out of warranty. If you have this problem and it’s in warranty, Dell should not have any problem replacing the broken adapter for sure. In fact, this adapter basically should last longer than the laptop itself. I really have no clue how Dell took care of this design & manufacturer at first place since I never heard this problem with another brand yet. Maybe that’s just me
Note: 90W draw occurs only when you have almost empty battery and/or run this machine simultaneously. 40-60W is a regular power draw for normal condition.
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