June 20, 2013

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  • dave

    this is a definite yes to buy. I was frustrated getting signed on the first time and the heavy accent at customer support did not help but once we took it to starbucks for a wi fi connection it was great.

  • listen here

    its clear that these computer have prob;ems with the internet i bought one and you cant get online with it if i work on computer alot this is a a good buy if u get one with working intenter i think they have bad wireless cards or something but coustmer serveir yelled at me and keep telling me i was not doing what he tole me so save your self the effort and dont buy it please im waringing you not to but if u go out and buy it learn to speack india becuase you dont know what they are saying

  • MissMary

    Yea, my uncle just bought this thing, and he cannot connect from his wireless.. any clues or trouble shooting would be most appreciated. Thank You

  • MissMary

    Alright!! got it working.. i guess where the window that opens your available connections, u gotta manually input ur wireless password. the window automatically checks a box that says to find a pass code for u. we had to uncheck this box and then we were able to input his password..

  • Tiffany

    I tried and tried to get this thing connected to my wireless router…I have suddenlink so it wasn’t as easy as turning on my wifi to connect. I had to create a new connection and set it up that way. On your wireless router you should have two IP addresses it will give you a place to type it in. I entered all the info. in and turned off my computer after saving it and when i turned it back on it was connected…I bought two of them for my kids and I was doing everything I could to get it to work. If you need help feel free to email me I will help as much as I can…

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  • tabatbab brown

    I have tried my best to deal with this netbook but it is horrible. The sound never worked on it and now it went copletely out on me.It comes with a warranty thats hard to get .I have no way of reach costumer support about my problems with my 7inch netbook.

  • ja,es

    When you put in your password, it is not the password you use to log into the settings on your router. You need to go to wireless security and the password you need to enter on your ebook is the “WPA Shared Key”..it is the shared key that you need to enter. So it is the shared key/pin, not the password you use to log into settings on your router.

  • james

    For Lookbook wireless reader connecting to wifi..problems with the password…

    When you put in your password, it is not the password you use to log into the settings on your router. You need to go to wireless security and the password you need to enter on your ebook is the “WPA Shared Key”..it is the shared key that you need to enter. So it is the shared key/pin, not the password you use to log into settings on your router.

  • A.

    Sylvania netbook-My paren’t just bought this for my daughter and I have a few questions. I have a desktop so this is new to me.1.What do I need to do to get her online? 2.Do I need to purchase any addtional pieces/parts for this? 3.Does this work like a digital camera with a card?
    4.Will this let you go online to any website or is it just programmed for certain sites?
    Any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you.

  • Colllins Ladi Luma

    I encountered some difficulty with my netbook on using one of its USB port.i connected this port to the usb device of my phone,and after some time,my screen went blank.on removing the device,it made no difference.really love working with my netbook,so i am really hoping you guys will really help me on this.i am impatiently waiting for some solutions please.thank you so much.

  • Randy

    I connected to the internet ok my problem is it runs too slow and some FB application won’t even load due to shortage of ram. I’m new to windows CE and still trying to figure out how to make adjustments.

  • leelee

    You can go to digitalgadgets.com and using another computer put the script update on a sd card and the notebook will update itself on powerup. how easy do you want it? It does ok for a little thing.

  • dirtybob30

    I just got through setting up and customising one of these netbooks for a friends daughter. It has ahorrible operating system, the power cord doesn’t stay connected very well (we have to keep wiggling it), and for a new product out of the box i don’t think it should have to have the script updated. For the $89 price (black friday deal) and the time to get it online (8 hours of research and formatting sd cards) i think it will make my friends 7 year old daughter happy.

  • kara

    I HATE THIS STUPID COMPUTER IT WONT CONNECT, IT SAYS IT IS CONNECTED BUT IT WONT PICK UP THE INTERNET!!!!! IM TAKING IT BACK AND I BETTER GET MY MONEY BACK!!!!!!!! DONT BUY THEM FROM CVS THE COMPUTER IS A PIECE OF CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Ryan Northrup

    My little sister actually just got one of these from Santa. For the price, it’s not a bad little netbook. Sure, Windows CE sucks, but I’m sure there’s a way to boot and install Linux from a USB drive (or from the SD card), if anyone’s tech savvy and brave enough to try it. Even without an OS upgrade, Windows CE might still run (some) basic Windows programs.

    Based on the description and specs, this will support most web browsing. Intensive stuff like Flash animations, though, may lag a little with only 128 MB of RAM to work with (and no apparent room for a swapfile). It looks like it defaults to “mobile” versions of websites.

    The wireless setup doesn’t seem very user friendly for those with limited experience setting up a network (like my family). I’m probably going to be called a lot to help with getting it to work with WiFi networks. Ethernet setup seems even more cryptic.

    The one we got doesn’t have a DVI port (like the other’s I’ve seen online), but instead a third USB port. It’s fine unless for some reason she wants to hook up to our Vizio (like for watching videos on the big screen).

    Does anyone know about it’s compatibility with mobile broadband cards (specifically, ones from Sprint) and with printers? It seems to be an x86 processor, but Windows CE might pose problems for installing drivers and/or proprietary software.

  • mr computer

    You people are so freaking stupid. I guess the first clue was your spelling, which was fucking awful. Are you fools educated at all? And you complain about India not speaking the language, yet you can’t spell yourself… Apalling. Half of you sound like illegals yourself. Second of all, you get what you pay for, plain and simple. Anyone ever told you that? Did you think this was a magical fucking netbook that was awesome for only 99 bucks? I read the reviews on this piece of crap, which i recommend you morons should do the next time you make a purchase, and it stunk, no surprise there, hehe. Wake up, get off your fat, pimply-faced carcasses and get a real job where you can afford a decent box. Later, retards.

  • Kate

    This netbook is a piece of crap. My sister bought one for my young daughter for Christmas. She was very disappointed with it. No way to get this thing working. Save your receipt.

  • Mitch

    Bought this from CVS as a gift for my son for the holidays. Before I gave it to him I tried it to see how it worked. It was a good thing I did. There was no way I could connect it to the internet, no matter how hard I tried. It wasn’t worth my trouble for the price I paid for it. So back it went for refund. It’s a great device if they can iron out the kinks, very lightweight and compact…a good looking netbook for someone who wants to be mobile. My son would have loved it if it worked. Forget the instructions. They’re useless.

  • J Mac

    Wow that is one ugly piece of shit. Windows CE?? What happened, did you all put that thing on Lay-away ten years ago & just now finished paying for it? I mean, Sylvania makes it. What did you inspect, they make freaking light bulbs. By the way it is not a Netbook. Any real Netbook even the worst one in stores would shit on that piece of crap any day. WTF is a “wireless mobile internet device”. Wow, I mean C’mon, what a piece of junk.

  • Moving-forward

    The wife bought the Sylvania 7″ netbook for our daughter for christmass in place of a laptop to save money. Windows CE takes a bit of getting use to. By following the You Tube videos I got past the wireless connection mis print in the doc. It is Wifi power on Fn key and f9 key at the same time then left click the bottom right small pc icon for wireless and select your network off the wireless information tab on the pop up and connect. No real problem. My problem is I follow the video for you Tube and get either DNS not found (which is not true) or Flash up grade needed message (which I believe) But where do I get the flash upgrade for CE6? Any CE experts out there?

  • Travis

    Horrible product! This Netbook is a piece of junk. When we tried to return it to Sears they charged us a 15% re-stocking fee and refused to re-imburse the shipping, therefore it costed us $38.00 to return a worthless piece of junk that originally costs around $100.00

  • that boi

    this is a great computer i just bought one today and i am super satisfied with it it works just like my 500 dollar laptop minus the memory space it took it out of the boy went to the wifi options and it connected right up. i dont know what you people are talking about sure CE is not the greatest but its still one of the best netbooks you can buy

  • Disappointed

    I got this for Christmas. I understand it has little memory (256MB) and a small amount of RAM (128), but my out dated cell phone can process information faster. Save your money. Either buy a laptop or an iphone/droid.

  • http://worththemoney sharon

    I just bought one, hooked right up to the internet service .. flys through pages without problems … i feel its great for the money spent .

  • Sandy

    My two kids received these netbooks for christmas from my ex husband. Both netbooks say that they are connected to my internet and the signal is excellent. The tab that is used to connect the netbook to the internet has an IP address. The next icon over on the task bar (the one that looks like fire) I clicked it and the IP address is all zeros. Can anyone help? Sylvania sure wont even return my emalis or calls.

  • Andy Mouse

    Sandy, the icon left of the (search page) magnified page icon, a orange house with a red roof and a chimney on the left, is your homnepage, or under “&View/Internet &Options” it’s called the “startpage.”

    Yes, the Sylvania is $99 ($84.89 on sale, $60 maybe $50 or less, online from a disgruntlled former owner, and with some reservtions, worth it). No, it isn’t a $500 + $100 @ month cell phone, nor is it a $1000 laptop. You can’t expect to take it out of the box and access WiFi without knowing your WiFi’s security. Tho. with no security on my WiFi or Cat-5, it connected just fine (since then, I maxed out my WPA2 and 64 character key). Sylvania/DGsupport finally, last month, issued an OS update on their website, but it should have a program that unZIPs it already on this machine. For that matter, they should have an app that tells you what is wrong with their machine, (and, of course, I wouldn’t mind them hiring me, my cousin, and/or a generous portion of my alumni, to write it) BUT then they couldn’t afford to sell it as a $99 WiFi netbook (with a non-Intel, AMD or Motorola RISC chip, running a mobile phone OS – without the cellphone or customer service that cellphone customers enjoy).

  • Lucci

    Purchased one dec. 3rd 2010 for my older brother. Was setting it up for him, the words was scrambled, lost my receipt and tried to return to cvs, to no avail. They told me to call corporate to get a copy of my receipt, they sent it. Still district manager was only going to give me a gift card that I could only use at cvs. But fortunately, when I finally got off my lazy butt, just so happened a clerk that had been out on sick leave that knew me had returned a gave me a full refund. So, if you r having problems with this net book, find your receipt and get your money back

  • lisabella

    my daugther just this thing, and he cannot connect from his wireless.. any clues or trouble shooting would be most appreciated. Thank You

  • wes

    Does Windows Media Player work on it? Is there an ethernet port?

  • http://It'snotWindows,loweryourexpectations. Radi0j0hn

    Got mine for $89.95. It’s great for what it does: basic stuff. Smaller than a portable DVD player and you can write and check your mail from wherever. Put MP3 on an SD card and play them. Most complaints come from people where the problem is located between the chair and the keyboard. These are the same people who buy a $79 digital camera and complain they can’t take actions shot indoors of their kids doing sports.

  • computer guy

    Purchased this from a user who couldn’t get it to work.
    I put windows 7 on it went in and put 4 gigs of memory and 80 gigs of hard drive and man I’m rolling.
    Cool little net book.
    Of Course all the Ho’s in the office went out and purchased them one and are not happy, all while I surf the web at a high speed and they cant understand why.

  • junnie b

    OMFG this lil notebook iz GARBAGE bought one for my wife i get it home thinkin i juz got tha DEAL OF THA YEAR after 2hrs tryin to get tha wifi to work we put in eathernet cord and…. now we CANT go to any site but GOOGLE…. lol so sad hate to admit u cant surf tha net u go to google only site it will let u go to cant open any site this lil notebook SUX PLZ PLZ PLZ DONT make my mistake DONT get one of these SO WORTHLESS better to go to a pawn shop n pick u one up! NOT A GOOD LIL COMP LOOKS COOL BUT BOUT IT! sound dont work on it…. tha mouse pad it has iz VERY WEAK itzn’t pword procted OVER ALL IT BLOWS stay away from it IF U HAVE ONE TRHOW IT IN THA TRASH!!!!!!!! sorry to let yall down but u have to understand how dissaponted i am…… HORRIBLE BUTT 7IN NOTEBOOK!

  • tammyford

    i have callled support many times and have yet to get the netbook to work. i got it for my daughter for christmas and i hate it i thank it is the the worst thing i have ever paid money for and i have told the company to send me a box to return it and they have done nothing this has a one year warrenty and they have yet to honer it i dont thank i should have to go through this so i will be calling the bbb to let them know they are not holding up to the warrenty on the product this is the worst company i have ever seen and dont thank any one should buy this

  • Scot V McKinstry

    I like internet radio, but I still don’t have it. DG was very prompt about replacing the product. I get the opening song and blips for program changes. Wow I can get recorded Chinese TV with sound. Still no Windows Media Player. I guess I’m kind of weird. I like my music in american dialect english.Oh, and, The weather from teijan is useless to me. Can I get some help??

  • Barbara

    I got my netbook a few days ageo. It would not boot up,took it back and got another one. I really like it. It connects just fine. The more I use it the more I like it.

    I have found I need to give it just a bit longer to respond. It’s not as nice as my lap top but it sure is a lot of fun. I think I am using it more just because it it so small and easy to handle.

    After reading all those bad reviews I wonder why my Sylvania 7” netbook is so good?

    OH!! The speakers don’t sound all that good. overall it’s just fine.

  • SylvaniaIsShit

    Rofl. this thing is a piece of shiiiit.
    The S in Sylvania stands for shit

  • Mensablonde58

    I like mine. It’s perfect for chatting with my friends on Facebook and dating sites like Plenty of Fish and Match. I just take mine to Starbucks at Barnes & Noble Bookstore and get free WI-FI.

  • DANIELLE

    I JUST HAD IT AS A BIRTHDAY GIFT AND I HATE IT SO BAD I JUST WANNA RETURN OR EXCHANGE IT BUT I CAN NOT CUZ I DO NOT HAVE THE RECEIPT DOES ANYONE HAS A SUGGESTON ON HOW SHOULD I DO TO EXCHANGE IT FOR A BETTER ONE I WOULD ADD MONEY IF POSSIBLE?

  • Altogetherlovelyrica

    I book this netbook, back in November 2010. I’ve been to several places, but still can’t get a connnection. I tried calling the 1-888 number several times, but of course, no one is available to help even though someone is supposed to be there until midnight. Needless to say the email address is a joke. It just routes you to a fix it site, where they want you to pay for assistance. what a rip off!

  • Susanlynnballard

    Does anyone know if you can download e books and what software you need to download to turn this into an e reader

  • Cabby420 ( Mike )

    Thinking of picking up a sylvania netbook, I am a computer guy also, could you give me a run down on how to go about changing the OS to XP, or 7, or vista , I have all of them on disk. Also a talk/walk through on the memory, don’t have it yet so cant look and find out for myself yet, not sure how accessible the memory bay or bay’s ( hoping there’s more than one ) are and just a basic understanding of how to go about doing what you did. I have 3 ipaq’s and am very familiar with windows CE and am comfortable with it, but if I could do what you did to the netbook, I’ll get it and that would be awesome. Thanks, Mike.

  • Debbi

    Jak , I am reading all these comments, and I was getting so fustrated. thanks, for the smile your comment made, I am sure glad urs works fine, I am having problems with the one I bought my mom. I really think mines needs a surgeon,cause I am lost sitting clueless.

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