No Vista drivers for i7200 series

TabletKiosk has posted the bad news in its forum.  

I'm sorry to inform you that TabletKiosk has no formal plans to release drivers for the eo i7200 series to support Microsoft’s Windows Vista. 

While the eo i7200 series was certified by Microsoft as "VISTA Compliant", TabletKiosk never released this unit with this operating system nor were we able to secure the proper source code for either the O/S or chipsets required to complete these drivers to a level that we found to provide an acceptable computing experience.

Well, that confirms what I said back in this other post, Founder, the maker of these devices did not have any plans to release Vista Drivers for these devices. That's how businesses work in China, they change plans and they do not give you any explanation. Well, at least this is my personal opinion. Without Founder support there was nothing that could be done by TabletKiosk.

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TabletKiosk has released Vista Drivers for i7210

TabletKiosk  has released BETA Vista Drivers for the i7210. The bad news is that still there is not support for the SD Card slot according to what some users have commented me but I have not confirmed this part yet.

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TabletKiosk is not selling more the i7210

I just checked Tabletkiosk's product page and found that they are not longer selling the eo i7210. They still selling the i7209 which use a Celeron processor but I wonder if those are just units that they still have in stock and they are fully dropping the i7200 serie.

In another hand we contacted Founder a few weeks ago asking for a date for the release of Vista Drivers for the i7210 and the answer from them was really bad: These devices were designed to be used with XP Tablet PC Edition.

Update: I just received this reply from Gail Levy, Marketing Director at Tabletkiosk:

Hi Frank,
At the current time, we are not selling the eo i7210 because it uses the Pentium M processor which was discontinued by Intel and we are unable to procure additional quantities. We have tried and will continue to try to obtain new processors, however, they are extremely difficult to come by. So for now, we have removed the eo i7210 SKU from our website.

The eo i7209 UMPC is a best seller for us, we are continuing to offer it. However, the Vista drivers are still in development and I do not know when they will be completed. We will not be posting the Vista drivers until all issues have been resolved including the functionality of the SD card. I know that there are drivers floating around the internet which do not allow full functionality of the unit and we have decided not to post them until everything works correctly.

I hope that this answers your questions.

I have to say that I believe that Tabletkiosk is doing the impossible to release the Vista Drivers for the i7200 since but at the same time I know from my own experience that it's not easy to deal with a Communist Country Company.

Few things I have learned today

Microsoft HID driver is causing the i7210 issue when the unit is coming back from hibernation or standby. A test using an earlier version of a beta eGalax Driver revealed that if we disable the option in the power tab of that driver that allow the PC to turn of the touch screen to safe power the hibernation and standby issue disappear.

Unfortunately that driver still does not enable full HID support.