Talk:CherryPal

According to their website you can now buy the Cherrypal for $99. The operating system is Windows CE.

"The 7" Cherrypal was designed with developing countries in mind. The Africa is powered with an 400 MHz processor, 256 MB DDR / 2 GB NAND-flash and runs Linux (GMo) or Windows CE. Here are some more basics: Screen: 7 inch high-resolution TFT .(800 x 480 pixels) LAN:10/100M Ethernet Access WIFI: IEEE 802.11 b/g Ethernet RJ-45 Keyboard: QWERTY 86 keys Mouse&Touch pad:build-in touch panel, set two shortcut key,and support usb port mouse USB Port: USB 2.0 x 1 (aid external memory) USB 1.1 x 2 (aid keyboard & mouse only) External Memory : SD card , U-Disk , USB-HDD Card port: SD / MMC card slot (8GB) Battery: 7.4 V 1800Mha built in Lithium battery 1800MAH Last time:4 HRS Sound effect:build-in realtek sound effect chipset, Built in 2 x 0.5W Built in speaker 1 x microphone Weight:1.2kg Size: 213.5 x 141.8 x 30.8 mm This product was added to our catalog on Friday 11 December, 2009."

Page creation

I'll be making the justification again for notability and so forth. Taggers, admins, please allow a little time for me to do so. The notability is in part that this is the only standardized PPC computer desktop end-user product, that, like in terms of eeePC and OLPC notability, it unusually competes on a very low price strategy, etc. Also it's use of Firefox as the UI is notable. More. DanielM (talk) 17:22, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

While I have agreed to "stay out" of this article, I think it's pretty obvious that the price should be removed. Tan ǀ 39 17:44, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

OLPC and eeePC articles both discuss pricing. The pricing here is identified neutrally and is part of the subject's notability. See also Tata Nano. DanielM (talk) 17:56, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey, run the price and it will get the article killed. Leave it out, please. Ecoleetage (talk) 17:58, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I see no reason for leaving the price out? Censorship??? Please no.--Kozuch (talk) 23:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I'll leave it out pending consensus on whether it should be in there, but we need to note the price as part of the notability, if there is a notability challenge. DanielM (talk) 18:10, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

$250

It is ridiculous to leave out the most notable factoid. -69.87.199.98 (talk) 23:14, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Vaporware

Its hard to believe that no-one has added the reasonable conclusion that this product is vaporware and will never surface in real life. Consider this:

1) The product is only ever shown as a rendering - no real life photographs, which is surprising if the product supposedly left the factory more than a month ago.

2) There has been no realiable, independent, and verifiable reports of units being shipped to end users. This is after a month of supposed availability of a pretty good product (that is, if it existed)?

3) Third, the webpage is designed as if a sixth-grade kid had done it is a school project. It is simply too amateruish for a company which supposedly has the vision and capital to: design a complex electronics product from scratch, secure funding for starting a production run, actually establishing a production, found a distributor, and managed to ship the product to customers.

4) The company started with Paypal for order payments but pulled it for unspecified "bad experiences"... sorry this is way out there. If you want to launch a halfway revolutionary product, you are an amateur if you don't have a decent order tracking and payment system in place on the launch date.

I could list a few more points of mistrust, but i'll stop for now and end in sayign that nothing at all is trustworthy about the company, it's main man and the product. If i'm mistaken, I'd love to be shown to be so (but please, let see some hard proof that this thing actuially exists, thanks!). - Peter Bjørn Perlsø (talk) 02:21, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Did you read the references from Green Tech Girl and Solmn blogs? There are still question marks about mass production etc. but those didn't seem to be fakery to me. Also, I think it does mention it may be vaporware at the end of the article currently. DanielM (talk) 20:34, 15 December 2008 (UTC) PS: There are real life photos in one or more of the references.

I don't think its vaporware at all, there are real pictures, and reports of end users now. There are many other small starter companies who have crappy web-pages, and in my opinion a real swindler would first make sure the website would look polished. Take a look at fan sites like this [1] and here: [2]. I think in a couple of days many more people will report on the arrival of their cherrypal, and we can lay the vaporware theory to rest. Mahjongg (talk) 01:05, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I also found a YouTube Video, here: [3] Funny video by the way, I wonder why she thinks the connectors are "on the front of the device", to me they are on the back, what makes the back the back? Or maybe then the cherry picture is "upside down" big deal... I would mount the device on the back of a flatscreen anyway? out of sight. Not packing a starter sheet to me means that cherrypal is rushing these things out the door as soon as possible, not waiting for the printer to deliver the starter sheets. I doubt there will be much on the sheet anyway, just instructions to hook the thing up, turn it on and log in. I think we can scrap the "vaporware theory". I am curious for the first real user reports, and how much this thing really is a "cloud computer". Mahjongg (talk) 01:29, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Cherrypals are turning up at users doorsteps left right and center, just google for cherrypal in the last 24 hours and you get over a thousand hits. I'm going to remove the vaporware claim. Mahjongg (talk) 21:21, 18 December 2008 (UTC)