Gbax.com - SmartQ5 Review

[GirthShark]

he has nice legs

[Jbb996699]

can you access the terminal? and does the stylus come with it?

[waypastthat]

Your voice is enchanting!

[cclementi6]

how sensitive is the screen

[malman1080]

@cclementi6 but is the screen sensitive?

[CryptoDah2]

Does pandora support flash?

[cyborgtroy]

@CryptoDah2 - No, Flash does not support Pandora at the moment.

There are workarounds planned for video sites, but general Flash won't be available any time soon.

[urmumzfat]

@cyborgtroy It is based on Linux, it pretty much is Linux in fact, so I don't think a Flash Player will take that long.

[cyborgtroy]

@urmumzfat - Yeah, but it's ARM Linux, so at the very least Adobe will have to re-compile their existing code. And Adobe is lazy, so who knows when that will happen.

[urmumzfat]

@cyborgtroy I guess you're right. Android is based on Linux and it took Adobe almost a year to get off their asses and make Flash for it. At least it's done now.

[dawoof]

very fucking slow

[dutchietor]

Are the q7 and q5 the same size?

And is GBAX shipping to Holland too?

[Timsalt3100]

correction 9.10 unbutu with LXDE

[Timsalt3100]

Download the Q5 Update as this features full english menus and boot up is also english

it's not recommended to download from manfacturer website as the server is horrendus and the download is likely to take more than a few hours at 2+ MBPS

there are sources for it if you search for it on a rapidshare search engine, oh and in the new firmware the device uses 6.10 unbutu

[Timsalt3100]

I think that a full english version of Unbutu linux needs to be installed here because the chinese lanauge would get annoying after a while

[oltipolti]

Slow, tedious and no flash.. Why bother!

Oh, yeah.. Shake much?

[acer8930G]

This almost reminded me of Ashens for some reason. Except less funny. God review though.

[Tezuka101]

This is sort of a silly question, but can the display be changed to portrait?

[wowlvl2noob]

Yes there is a mod for that, sure you can find it when you google for it ;)

[ayhanb]

fag

[fatriff]

It's ubuntu so ofcourse you can watch youtube once you install the flash plugin.

[Enverex]

Which you can't do as there is no Adobe Flash plugin for ARM processors, you could use Gnash but it's missing a -lot- of features and runs very slow.

[system16]

There is. Archos players have had flash for years and they all use ARM processors.

[Muphlon]

that's because they don't play flash. they do it like iphone/ipod touch by recoding it on the go to H.264.

[system16]

Yes it does do that for flash video like youtube but on the archos 605 and 5 you can view flash animations on the web. Therefor there is flash player for the arm processor.

[Muphlon]

it's an ARM processor so of course you can't.

[GAMEFREAK666666]

:( ermmm, i have yet to see a flash player for a arm archtecture !!!)

[alex76gr]

I think Bruno should have reviewed this!

[Gruath]

Dear Craig!

Could you tell us more about this arm based CPU?

I've found on google that is has ARM 11 Samsung 667Mhz cpu.

Could you test for us :

-Gnome Games

- some finger friendly UI

[LordZope]

Agreed I would love to see this running Hildon, Ubuntu Mobile or Maemo Mer.

That would make it soo awesome, at the moment the full gnome (or is it LXDE) GUI looks a little tacky, I may get one myself just to try different GUIs on.

[BLinuz]

Been looking into this device for music, video and occasional browsing, but no reviews I've read have any information on music battery life... Granted, the software in the player is probably unoptimized, but I believe a stress-test with a 128kbps MP3 playing in loop is in order.

[Quakepunk]

Apology not accepted

[IEATn00bZORZ]

broke my heart and made me cry!

[GadgetoidUK]

Can't wait to get my hands on one, which is problematic as I've been waiting weeks! They're flying off the shelves apparently, so my job may be a little redundant.

[Pandorafanboy]

Will we be recieving a similar type of package for the Pandora

[cyborgtroy]

I think they said it will be more like a plain brown cardboard box.

Hopefully the Pandora won't be negatively affected by the plainness of its box.

[abeisgreat]

The hardware on that device looks good, but the UI looks like crap, they really managed to butcher ubuntu, so many clear issues. I would much prefer a distro designed for that hardware, not to say the hardware is extremely slow, but its clearly not powerful enough to run gnome desktop, I would prefer the device be packed with with Ubuntu Server + Fluxbox so at least the device could run at full speed, Still, I might get one, because as it is linux, you can always make it to the way you want.

[DerDummerKind]

The Desktop Manager is Openbox, so it should be a realy tiny Desktop like LXDE.

[NeilHonky]

i don't know why but this reminded me of BBC clicks reviews.

[kinmanyuen]

lol craig in person

[trevsweb]

Criag get yourself a tripod lol its about time you did hehe

[NeilHonky]

i second this notion

[boyweed]

ahahahaha... Got my WIZ from you guys today.

great review. Once my credit card is paid, I'm gonna get on the SmartQ5 bandwagon :-)

[GodliKeRem1X]

I found that quite funny :)

[Cellsplitter]

lol craig! :) nice to see you finaly. But in the bath aswell? XD ty bubbles

[ichi1082]

lol i never saw you in person. great review as usual, thanks!

[kloplop321]

Interesting

[markvergeer]

Nice video. Eagerly awaiting the Pandora, already got a Wiz to tie me over but this looks promising as well...