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The VEOLO is a lovely little unit, much smaller than the PLAYON! devices from the last generation. It is finished in piano style black which looks really attractive in a living or bedroom. The only downside is that fingerprints are easily seen and dust builds up quickly on the surface. Keeping a polishing cloth at hand would be a good idea. It measures 150 x 114 x 36 mm and weighs 375 grams.
Thankfully AC Ryan have decided to avoid using a simple square chassis design, opting for a sleek, curved custom design which is very attractive. the VEOLO name can be seen on the front of the fascia. There is a small glowing panel in this area which can be seen when it is powered on, and in dimly lit environments.
The right panel of the product has no connectors, but on the left is a USB host connector, a power button and a SD/SDHC media slot which supports up to 32GB.
The rear panel has a power input, an HDMI 1.3 connector and a GB lan cable. Additionally there is another USB host connector and S/PDIF optical out (5.1 capable).
The internal design is very clean indeed with everything crammed into a very small space. The processor is a 1GHZ ARM Cortex-A9 with full floating point support. It also has JAVA hardware acceleration and 3D Graphics hardware acceleration with OpenGL ES Support. On the board is 512MB of DDR3 memory and 4GB of NAND Flash Memory for OS and Apps Installation. We have some high resolution images of the internals on the next page if you wish to take a closer look.
I think I was the first person to buy one of these in the UK when scan stocked them. I love it. its very small and the remote controller is brilliant. I dont use it for downloading apps much, just a memory optimiser which was free and a new browser. It works fab with my LCD tv in the living room.
Looks lovely, very small too. I always looked at a playon device, but many people on their forums complained about the lag problems and that would drive me batty. This one seems more responsive.
Piano black looks great in pictures, but my DVD player is the same and it looks like someone played football with it last night, its cleaned every week too.
Still, im impressed with this, apart from the almost £200 asking price. seems a bit much even with the gyro style remote.
What a brilliant little product. ill be ordering one from scan this week.
Nice idea, but it seems to lack a lot of image adjustment settings, is that all their is? contrast, brightness etc? thats a bit lame,
Good company, I bought their mini device months ago and its served me well, its still a bit sluggish but it must be down to the hardware for that series. at least this one has half a gig of ram which will work well with android.
I wouldnt even look at this if it wasnt for the power consumption. thats exactly why windows/Intel/AMD designs are so inefficient. T here are other alternatives and this is one im going to look at in more depth soon.