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"Viliv S5 Premium Air MID": premium UMPC with GPS?
Now Viliv is jumping on the UMPC train too: since several weeks the long-announced “VILIV S5 MID” is available in several configurations. The “Premium Air” version sports a 16GB SSD, 4.8″ touchscreen LCD with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels, and full 3G/HSDPA functionality – whereas the “normal” versions come equipped with 30 or 60 GByte 1.8″ HDD instead, 800×480 LCD only, and no wireless broadband at all. Both models have the same 24Wh battery, allowing for 5-6 hours of continuous use, and are available with either WinXP, Vista or Linux (unspecified distro) preinstalled, both weigh around 380 grams and have 802.11 b/g wifi, bluetooth 2.0 and external video connectors (for VGA, S-Video and Composite-video cables!), the whole controlled by a “Silverthorne” Intel Atom clocked at 1.33GHz and supported by 1GB RAM.
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"Viliv S5 Premium Air MID": premium UMPC with GPS?
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