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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$

#11

Post by enso-now »

noonespecial wrote: post #4

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…

Thanks a lot for your clever comment. Sincerely.

1) Rooting androind on this device is not hard, we can provide detailed informations. 2) The USB 3G dongle is very small, we will have pictures uploaded on the website in a couple of days. We are choosing amongst different designs. 3) No bluetooth 4) No external keyboard for now, we are conducting research about which models in the market android could support. 5) The ports on the machine are only 1 micro USB, and 1 9.5 mm audio out jack. 6) Charging is via usb cable to pc, or with included adaptor. 7) usb mode host

I will upload more pictures very soon, i am waiting to meet with the factory to buy the prototype i have ordered weeks ago, but the chinese holidays slowed down business here. Thanks a lot again. Alberto

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

#12

Post by enso-now »

noonespecial wrote: post #9
enso-now wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ch…

Hi, thanks. I finally understand your point of view. I will think about the ideas you inspired. thanks a lot. Alberto

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

#13

Post by noonespecial »

enso-now wrote: post #11
noonespecial wrote: post #4

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…

Thanks a lot for your clever comment. Sincerely. 1) Rooting androind on this device is not hard, we can provide detailed informations. 2) The USB 3G dongle is very small, we will have pictures uploaded on the website in a couple of days. We are choosing amongst different designs. 3) No bluetooth 4) No external keyboard for now, we are conducting research about which models in the market android could support. 5) The…

I will upload more pictures very soon, i am waiting to meet with the factory to buy the prototype i have ordered weeks ago, but the chinese holidays slowed down business here. Thanks a lot again. Alberto

Ouch. So its still in its joojoo phase. Ok, criticism numero uno: You should absolutely not "presell" these things. You should not look like you're within a hundred miles of taking money before you've got crates of them sitting on a shelf ready to ship tomorrow. Apple can get away with this kind of thing because they have a track record of delivering on time. For everyone else, its a "close browser, c-ya, not coming back until everyone I know has bought one, received it and raved about it" event.

If you responded, in thought, to this with even a tiny bit of "but I need the money from presales to pay the manufactures to get the fist shipment going", hang it up, you're just about certain not to make it in the hardware business.

Sorry to sound harsh, but I've been on this train before.

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

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Post by portman »

As an ecommerce guy, I can't help but point out a few quirks on the online store:

* Tab index on /n/MyAccount/newshipping-addresses.php is way off. Try tabbing through the form.

* The JavaScript alerts when you do something CORRECT are very nonstandard. JavaScript modal dialogs are commonly reserved for client-side ERRORS, not after you submit a form correctly.

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

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Post by MaysonL »

noonespecial wrote: post #7
kqr2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 thoug…

Did you check out the Zii Egg?

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

#16

Post by enso-now »

noonespecial wrote: post #13
enso-now wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot for your clever comment. Sincerely. 1) Rooting androind on this device is not hard, we can provide detailed informations. 2) The USB 3G dongle is very small, we will have pictures uploaded on the website in a couple of days. We are choosing amongst different designs. 3) No bluetooth 4) No external keyboard for now, we are conducting research about which models in the market android could support. 5) The…

I will upload more pictures very soon, i am waiting to meet with the factory to buy the prototype i have ordered weeks ago, but the chinese holidays slowed down business here. Thanks a lot again. Alberto Ouch. So its still in its joojoo phase. Ok, criticism numero uno: You should absolutely not "presell" these things. You should not look like you're within a hundred miles of taking money before you've got crates of t…

Yes, you are perfectly right about Apple and its track record. We do not have that. Anyway i am not pre-selling anything, the device is currently produced and i can ship you 500 hundreds of pieces to you in a week. Anyway, you are perfectly right. I will send soon some prototypes to influentials tech blogs, and you will see the real thing soon. Thanks a lot for your feedback. Alberto

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

#17

Post by enso-now »

portman wrote: post #14

As an ecommerce guy, I can't help but point out a few quirks on the online store: * Tab index on /n/MyAccount/newshipping-addresses.php is way off. Try tabbing through the form. * The JavaScript alerts when you do something CORRECT are very nonstandard. JavaScript modal dialogs are commonly reserved for client-side ERRORS, not after you submit a form correctly.

Thanks for your reply. It is precious. We will fix that asap. Alberto

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

#18

Post by aristus »

I was just about to buy a SmartQ v5, or a Ramos w7, for precisely this purpose. Well done.

Now, before you get my $189, tell me more about this "external USB 3G" business. Does this device come with a 3G radio, or not? That's like saying my laptop "has 3G" because it has a USB port.

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

#19

Post by enso-now »

aristus wrote: post #18

I was just about to buy a SmartQ v5, or a Ramos w7, for precisely this purpose. Well done. Now, before you get my $189, tell me more about this "external USB 3G" business. Does this device come with a 3G radio, or not? That's like saying my laptop "has 3G" because it has a USB port.

Hi, thanks for your feedback. The 3G comes through an external micro USB dongle, which is designed to be as smallest as possible. Stay tuned on the web site, in the next days we will be posting detailed pictures. Thanks!

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

#20

Post by enso-now »

kqr2 wrote: post #3

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…

I have also updated the page with the missing RAM specs. Thank you. The RAM is 256MB DDR
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