Liliv S7 MID promises 7 hour HD battery life

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, 1024x600 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.

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[#1 posted by Skwid, January 13, 2009 11:24 AM]

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?

[#2 posted by Anonymous, April 30, 2009 6:44 PM]

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.