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5" resistive touchscreen MID, Google Android 2.0, GPS, WiFi ,3G from 189$

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Re: 5" resistive touchscreen MID, Google Android 2.0, GPS, WiFi ,3G from 189$

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Hmm, it looks like their web site was recycled from a clothing retailer or something.

When you click on the picture of their epad, you get a picture of a white shirt.

http://enso-now.com/n/Store/step1.php

Also, it looks like the enso-now logo is a black version of the Lucent logo.

http://business-meetings.co.uk/images/New%20Lucent%20logo%20...

Also, I couldn't find detailed technical specs. What processor? Amount of RAM, etc. ?

I would wait for a critical review before ordering.

Re: 5" resistive touchscreen MID, Google Android 2.0, GPS, WiFi ,3G from 189$

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Is it real or is it joojoo?

I've been looking forever for a (cheap enough) tiny touchscreen wifi device to embed into laser cut switch-plates and stick on my walls to control my X10 stuff. This looks close enough to get my interest. I think I'll need to root android to do what I want to do though. Is rooting android hard on this device?

How big is this usb dongle that gets you 3g? A picture would be helpful. The absence of one creates the impression that its been omitted for good reason, ie: its completely impractical to actually ever use.

Bluetooth?

External keyboard?

Charging dock or must we fiddle with little wires and connectors to charge it, get our music out of it?

Expansion interface port like iphone, or all/only usb?

Usb host mode, slave mode (like a disk) or both.

You product is an early adopter/uber-geek toy, you need to add the ability to drill down to much, much more technical detail in your web site. You need more pictures, and probably video of the device in action. I've got my finger on the paypal button, I need just the tiniest nudge to give this thing a try.

Re: 5" resistive touchscreen MID, Google Android 2.0, GPS, WiFi ,3G from 189$

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Is it real or is it joojoo? I've been looking forever for a (cheap enough) tiny touchscreen wifi device to embed into laser cut switch-plates and stick on my walls to control my X10 stuff. This looks close enough to get my interest. I think I'll need to root android to do what I want to do though. Is rooting android hard on this device? How big is this usb dongle that gets you 3g? A picture would be helpful. The abse…

You might want to check out a Chumby One for $120:

https://store.chumby.com/

Re: 5" resistive touchscreen MID, Google Android 2.0, GPS, WiFi ,3G from 189$

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Hmm, it looks like their web site was recycled from a clothing retailer or something. When you click on the picture of their epad, you get a picture of a white shirt. http://enso-now.com/n/Store/step1.php Also, it looks like the enso-now logo is a black version of the Lucent logo. http://business-meetings.co.uk/images/New%20Lucent%20logo%20... Also, I couldn't find detailed technical specs. What processor? Amount of…

Hi, thanks for your feedback. It is greatly appreciated. I wouldn't have found that bug easily. Yes the system is built on a codebase i use for my works, i am also a web developer. Regarding the Lucent logo, yes, it is based on the Enso character, you can find more informations about it here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D I think it is widely use on the web because it is actually looking nice. Just google at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=enso&... and you will see that. I agree with you about a review before ordering. thanks. Alberto

Re: 5" resistive touchscreen MID, Google Android 2.0, GPS, WiFi ,3G from 189$

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Is it real or is it joojoo? I've been looking forever for a (cheap enough) tiny touchscreen wifi device to embed into laser cut switch-plates and stick on my walls to control my X10 stuff. This looks close enough to get my interest. I think I'll need to root android to do what I want to do though. Is rooting android hard on this device? How big is this usb dongle that gets you 3g? A picture would be helpful. The abse…

You might want to check out a Chumby One for $120: https://store.chumby.com/

I like chumbies, I made a neat robot with a pulled apart chumby as a brain, but it takes a lot of pulling apart and re-jiggering to make a chumby fit in a wall plate. Its fun to do it once, its decidedly less fun to do it 10 times.

I'm about to just use ipod touches and give up on some of the more advanced stuff I wanted to do. I was hoping to use picwing frames but they turned out to be more vapor than real. I thought cruchpads were going to be it, and then they got joojoo-ed. Still looking.

Re: 5" resistive touchscreen MID, Google Android 2.0, GPS, WiFi ,3G from 189$

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Is it real or is it joojoo? I've been looking forever for a (cheap enough) tiny touchscreen wifi device to embed into laser cut switch-plates and stick on my walls to control my X10 stuff. This looks close enough to get my interest. I think I'll need to root android to do what I want to do though. Is rooting android hard on this device? How big is this usb dongle that gets you 3g? A picture would be helpful. The abse…

You might want to check out a Chumby One for $120: https://store.chumby.com/

I think you totally misunderstand the content of this post. Argument please, otherwise i have to think that you are just trolling. Thanks. Alberto

Re: 5" resistive touchscreen MID, Google Android 2.0, GPS, WiFi ,3G from 189$

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You might want to check out a Chumby One for $120: https://store.chumby.com/

I think you totally misunderstand the content of this post. Argument please, otherwise i have to think that you are just trolling. Thanks. Alberto

I don't think kqr2 does much trolling! He was just trying to help me out. Its a good point though, Your market and the Chumby market have much overlap. You should have a look at how they do things over there for ideas. You don't have enough meat on your site to actually sell these things yet. $200 is a big enough number that people don't buy just to try. I actually plunked down money because I was convinced that a chumby would be useful for something I wanted to do.
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