New Blog 1: 7 Mini Netbook

Thursday 18 October 2012

7 Mini Netbook

got one of these cheapy- creepy EPC Mini netbook 7" Windows CE 6.0 (from eBay).

The good thing is: I was able to get WiFi, the Internet and the player works OK. I thought to bu it for my aging wife, because she loves any modern gadget with just "one button" or less buttons.

The bad things about that notebook are:1) ActiveSync 4.5 fails to recognize the netbook.

2) YouTube gets the file, but is unable to play it (wrong format??)3) Skype signs in... for ever, without ever signing in!Questions: a) Has anyone of you experts some good news how to get at least ActiveSync and Skype working?b) Am I right assuming that all programs installed on Win CE are not installed, but rather just copied into its memory? A bit like these "no install" softwares? 4) The power supply burned out after 2 Hrs of use. I do hobby electronics and tried another 9V DC PS, which burned out after short while, too. I discovered that it must be a flawed charging circuit, which shorts out the PS after Li-Ion battery reached full load. I then connected another (8V4) PS directly to to the Battery input of the netbook and that works fine. For portable use, I seried up 6 AA type Ni-Cads.Yet, albeit I saw all my contacts... I couldn't contact anyone of them!!!It's, because (down left in the display) only the word "Tool" was active. The call start and stop buttons were not active.The way things go on this lousy WinCe OS... chances are these button activate in another 30 Min?? Great notebook! Imagine you run it on a battery.