Yesterday, I bought a little gadget in computer shopping mall that called "SmartQ Q5". It is a device with 667MHz ARM11 CPU, 128M Ram, 800x480 4.3" Screen, WiFi, Bluetooth and SD Card. The specification is something like a T-Mobile G1 without phone functions and with larger screen. The display of this little gadget is brilliant. By default it bundle with ubuntu Linux. However, ubuntu is actually too much for it that make the device quite slow and not usable. Then I replace the operating system with Android. Thanks to Android, now it is very smooth to use twitter client or web browser on this little gadget.

Noted that the Android system for Q5 is still on it's very early stage, that is still buggy (e.g. WiFi doesn't wake up when the device is resumed from sleep). And because the screen resolution is different from normal Android phone, some apps didn't work on this device. However, most important apps work on it prefectly. e.g. Google Maps, Twidroid, Facebook, YouTube. And the Google Maps can really locate your position using just the WiFi signal without any GPS!

I forgot the mention that this Q5 cost only HK$1100 (USD$140).

SmartQ Q5

SmartQ Q5 vs T-Mobile G1