Overlooked in the chaos of enthusiasm that followed the announcement of the Vaio P is Viliv’s S7 MID, which — providing the feature bullet points isn’t just a collection of bold lies — looks pretty swank.
According to Viliv, the tiny 7-inch, 1.3 GHz Atom touchscreen device will feature 200 hours of standby time and enough juice to squeezes 7 hours of continuous movie playback (“Blue-Ray”) out of a single charge.
Although it claims to be a mobile internet device, and it certainly has the form factor, the specs really are more in line with a netbook: 1GB of RAM, 1024×600 resolution, a choice between a 16GB SSD and a 60GB hard drive, a 1.3MP webcam, built-in card reader, etc. Where it gets mobile internet-y is in the WWAN options, which include WiMax and HSDPA.
No price or availability yet, unfortunately.
S7 [Viliv]
What, exactly, is up with that “Blue-Ray” claim? This thing has no optical drive that I can see, and can’t even do 720 vertical lines…what the hell?
look at umpcportal.com for the viliv s5 review. the s7 and x70 are nearly identical. no, there is no optical drive at all. but it can play a blue ray file ( it doesnt really have to be blueray, it can be any video file ) at 720p. bluerays are normally ripped as mymovie.kmv This device does an astonishing job at processing all that data. The 720p image is scaled across the 600 vertical pixels. Its a sharp display, and i’ll be one of the first to get this or the x70.