Sungale Cyberus ID700WTA Smart Info Engine
[ Posted on Nov 06 2009 by techguru, Under: Tech News ]
Sungale launches the Cyberus ID700WTA, a so-called Smart Info Engine. The device comes with a 7-inch touchscreen and supports WiFi connectivity. It can be used as a e-book reader supporting TXT and PDF files; as a portable media player for video/music playback and image viewing and even as a internet device with included WiFi applications.
The Cyberus ID700WTA supports AVI, MPEG4, DivX, XviD, WMA, JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG media files. It comes with apps for Weather, News from Yahoo or Google,...
Let me help u guys out that aren’t sure about getting this thing.
Don’t.
Simple as that. Yes i can do all the functions is states i can, but compared to alot of other devices that are on the market it’s a piece of crap. I know i have one. Let me list the pro’s and cons so you can make the decision for yourself(don’t laugh at my spelling please)
Pros:
You can listen to a long list of songs and even have a slideshow with the picture function AND play music in the backgroud.
It can hold up to 50 or more ebooks.
You can listen to tons of different satellite radio
You can check the news
You can check the weather
Has a clock and Alarm.
Can check Traffic
Has a dictionary
Has Picasa(which i believe is a website but i’ve never heard of it and i don’t know what the website is for, but it has to be pretty popular to be put on the Cyberus right?)
Has Gmail
Now heres the other story
Cons:
The eReader ONLY reads TEXT and PDF which are not the most popular format for ebooks. The ereder will also space the words and letters 2 far apart and push them too close together, and it has a blackflash that you cannot turn off so your eyes will sting after a time of reading that way.
When you are listening to music, you can ONLY listen to music. By this i mean you can’t read a book, check the weather, news, look at pics etc……… Whe you are on the music section that is all you can do. And the Text format often takes letters off the words of your songs.
The picture function does not fit the picutre for the screen. So if it is 2 small or 2 large you will have 2 delete it. Plus(this is my own experience) when i tried to put the pictures on the internal memory the pictures wouldn’t show up. I had to put them on my SD card before i could actually look at them which brings me to something else.
To listen to music with the slideshow function the pics and songs must be in the same storage area. Example: If all your pics are on your SD card then so must be your music. If you have music on your internal memory and no pic guess what? You cant do the background music function.
The Internet connection speed is slow(of course that could just be my wireless network, but on my comp it works pretty fast………..*shrugs*)
No webrowser whatsoever.
On Youtube you canNOT search videos. You can only do the following:
1) Watch most viewed videos with a selection of; today, this week, this month, all time.
2)Watch videos that were: recently added, recently featured, top favourites, top favourites today, top rated, and top rated today.(I don’t know about the rest of you but i never really use those functions when i’m on Youtube. Ever. There’s ususally a certain video i’d like to see and i can typ in my specification and see all the reletad vids)
The clock is not digital and must be set up using army time. Example: Puttin in 17 hundred hours will make it show 9:00(Is that fucked up or what?)
Video function sucks because anything you watch on it, it will either: Keep the sound ahead or behind the video or will just keep messing up the screen. The picutre quaility depends on the quaility of the video you have which is understandble, cuz i mean what device makes fucked up vids look georgeous? None that I’VE come across. So if your vid is HD quaility thats great! But that’s about the best thing on the video function.(Did i forget to metion music and video function are the same thing?)
Note pad function messing up words just like the ereader and the text format everyting is listed in.
I can’t really say anything about the News, Weather, Gmail, Traffic, Picasa(seriously what is that?)applications since i don’t use them but i wouldn’t bother buying this thing to find out.