Soyea Z5 - A MID for the chinese market

It goes on sale on Amazon China at $880

Soyea Z5 MID is pretty expensive

What’s typical of Chinese products? No need for guessing. It’s the ease with which they churn out carbon copies of all high end famous products but with an unbelievably low price tag and with one thing amiss and that’s the guarantee. But all this thinking is set for a change with the launch of a real high end product from the carbon copy land and that product is way different than its counterparts. This new device is the Soyea Z5 MID (mobile internet device).

About Soyea

Established in 1999, Soyea Technology Co., Ltd. is a listed company based in Hangzhou, China. It’s parent company is West-lake Electronics Group Co. Ltd. The West-lake Electronics Group Co. Ltd. is a state-owned sole capital company authorized by Hangzhou government and has a history of more than 30 years.

Soyea Technology is based on the main industry of digital electronics information and tele-communication. It mainly engages in the research, development and sales of high-tech digital AV products, digital (analog) color TV’s, tele-communication equipment, satellite-broadcasting TV equipment, computer software, network integrated service..

Soyea Z5 MID

Soyea, known primarily for its televisions, has released a latest mobile internet device (MID), Z5. The device comes to life with the help of a 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z515 processor.

Other features include:

• 5 inch touch screen TFT display (480X800 pixels)
• 8GB SSD for storage
• MicroSD card slot
• 2-megapixel camera for snapping decent stills while a VGA secondary camera is there for your video conferencing needs
• Stereo speakers
• WiFi, CDMA EV-DO 3G connectivity support and Bluetooth
• miniUSB port
• VGA port
• A choice of either Windows XP or Linux OS

Available in white or black, this device measures 155x94x23 mm and weighs approximately 350g.

Now for the pricing which is again unlike other Chinese products. It is priced at a whooping 5999 Chinese Yuan (approx $880) at Amazon China. A Chinese product of this size and specs for $880!!! Rather astronomical compared to other devices on the market (not to mention uncharacteristic for Chinese gadgetry), I know, but maybe the high price corresponds to an incredibly well built, high quality product.