PowerON doesn't own a VPAD anymore, he sold it. I recall this comment in the other thread.
And for myself, I own a VPAD, yes, have it since I got it, I believe I got it around 6 or 7 months ago and I have experienced NO problems with it, but I know some of you have experienced some, but my VPAD, is the one of the good ones, I have two defective ones at home as well, and the issues are bad. But the good ones have been behaving excellent. The issues has been improving very well since its pre-release early this year, and I have to say, VPAD works very well in Australia -- expect the lag when it is connected to the Viable Servers, also, it worked well in United Kingdom, England. Viable has been serving VPADs around 10 countries alone.
The VPAD provides excellent video quaility, you can even control the internet speed, to make sure it is nice and smooth. It always depends on your fast speed of your internet usage, for example 5000/890 is the excellent speed I had in the past, and it provided real time conversations -- Chevy57 and I have experienced this when I spoke to him on VP 200. Nonetheless, I know the screen is small, but you even though can make it bigger by plugging the RCA outputs onto a nice big screen, for example, it works nicely on my 32" LCD television. It works well wirelessly too.
If you have any further questions, please let me know, and I can answer it for you.