A few weeks ago I was writing about Samsung Q1 and I was complaining about how bad the handwriting looks in this device. Being used to how it looks in a TabletKiosk eo v7110 I was expecting the same quality so I was in shock to see how different it was in this new to me device. I also was surprised to see that nobody before ever mentioned this issue that to me is a major one and responsible for how some TabletPC features do not work in Q1 in the way they are supposed.
Why the handwriting in Q1 looks that bad? Right after my comment I got the answer: This issue, “crappy looking handwriting”, is due the touch drivers/bios. q1 doesn’t have tablet os HID drivers but uses “normal” touch drivers.
I know what some Q1 owners may be thinking now - we can live with that - but that’s not all. According to one of the Origami Team member “because the Samsung Q1 doesn’t have some required firmware for HID digitizers you don’t get the floating TIP, Touch Pointer, etc.”
There are a few workarounds that Q1 owners have found to live with these issues but for me that’s not enough. From where I’m from people say that “a Baby won’t eat if he does not cry” so I’m asking Samsung: when are you thinking to fix this issue? What do you think? Do you think that it’s users’ responsibility to go around looking for solutions to what you have left unfinished? Where are the HID Drivers for Q1?
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[…] Where are the HID for Q1? This is the question I asked Samsung at Ultranauts.com. Without the HID, the Samsung Q1 is just not more than a unfinished product released by Samsung. Without the HID, the Q1 is not recognized like a device using a digitizer but just a mouse and as we all know, the Q1 does not have a mouse! Published Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:30 PM by ctitanic Filed under UMPC Commentary […]