Car adapter for Viliv X70

Some of you asked about the car adapter that comes with the Viliv x70. Here is a short video that shows how it works.

YouTube - Auto Support for Viliv X70

Few notes about W7 in a Viliv X70

Thanks to Dynamism I had the chance of testing a Viliv x70 and even more, install W7 on it. This is not a guide, these are just few notes about the process.

• The device has only one USB port, buy a little USB port where you can connect your USB Mouse, keyboard and a bootable USB Memory stick with Windows 7. I used this tool to prepare the USB Memory.
• Download from Viliv all drivers and uncompress them in a folder in your bootable USB. Windows 7 wont recognize the WiFi and the Touch Screen. This is why is so important to have the WiFi driver ready. The touch screen driver that I recommend is the eGalax Beta for W7. Still this is not a HID and as result Windows 7 will not recognize this device as a Tablet PC or a device with a digitizer. This means that you will miss some of the touch features that we love very much from Windows 7.
• To boot from the USB, turn on the unit holding pressed the button B. Using the Joystick select the option of booting from the USB.
• To install W7 select the 24 Gb unit, click in advance, and format.
• When the installation of W7 is done, install the WiFi, reboot and run windows update. Once you have installed the updates then install the touch screen driver. Check the device manager, you will find a device marked with !, update the driver using the files in the folder EC_IO downloaded from Viliv.
• Keep installing the rest of the software download the Viliv. For CubeUI you will need to download Air from Adobe.

Windows 7 Index for the Viliv x70. Average 3.48

As comparison point here is the Index for the Fujitsu P1610. Average 3.02

The Viliv X70 overall performs better than my P1610 with a better CPU. The Viliv X70 only needs one thing, a HID for the touch screen . What a crime to have a wonderful device like this no using fully all Touch features of Windows 7 and Office (No ink support).

Viliv X70 Touch Driver

Well, W7 does not recognize the touch screen as a HID, in another words, as a digitizer. It recognize it as just a mouse. The problem with this is that most of the touch functionalities of W7 do not work  properly in this case. The ink experience is just frustrating. The same thing happened with the original Samsung Q1. Back there, I found a work around and I’ll be exploring that route today. For somebody coming from using a Tablet PC or an UMPC with digitizer the Viliv X70 will be a step backward unless there is a solution for this issue. There  are options to make the inking experience better but still you are missing all the potentials of a very good “Touch” Experience.

This machine has a lot of potential and I love it. But this issue needs to be addressed.

Installing W7 in a Viliv X70 and Twitter

I’m going to post in Twitter all the details about this process. Posted already few things that I’m preparing and will continue with the whole process at 7:00 PM EST Today. 

Crime and punishment

The Crime: Install Windows XP Home Edition in a Viliv X70. Punishment: Keep using it without enjoying all the features touch relative available in Windows 7.

The device performs very well, here is the Crystalmark score:

One of the best scores I have seen thanks to a super fast SSD. It's without any doubt faster than my P1610. Thanks God, I have been authorized to install W7 in this demo device and I'll do it tomorrow ending my punishment period.

What my coworkers think about the Viliv x70

I showed today the x70 to my coworkers, IT Pros with many years of experience. In a brief interview I asked them two simple questions: What they like it and what they did not like it.

Unboxing the Viliv X70

Here is a photo report of the unboxing of the Viliv X70.

Viliv X70, first Impressions

I received a Viliv X70 review from Dynamism and I have prepared a short video for my Spanish site I the video has subtitles in English, so do not worry I you wont have to learn Spanish.

So far, the design is what have impressed me most of all. This UMPC looks really good, the space around the screen is well utilized and as result the device looks smaller than other devices with the same screen size.

Viliv x70, what a beauty…

The Viliv x70 is one of the best design I have seen in an UMPC later and the performance is not bad either. The only thing I don’t like is that is using XP Home instead of XP TabletPC 2005 Edition. But this is something that with W7 release can be fixed. You can buy this beauty at Dynamism where they are running some very good promotions.