Cowon has never been a company that feels the need to match its competitors shot-for-shot, so it’s not a complete surprise to see them go back to the future with the newly-unveiled R7 “Super PMP.” Instead of running Android like the D3, the Cowon R7 is shipping with good old Windows CE 6.0 juxtaposed with a decidedly more modern, Metro-looking…

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Remember PDAs? Before smartphones became ubiquitous, personal digital assistants such as the Palm Pilot, Handspring Visor, and Dell Axim were all the rage (with geek and/or well-organized people, anyway). But a funny thing happened when smartphones really started to take off — companies stopped making PDAs. While that’s probably because they weren’t selling very well in the age of iPhones…

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Samsung’s Galaxy Player line of handheld Android devices is getting a price cut. When the Galaxy Player 5.0 and Galaxy Player 4.0 started shipping recently they were priced at $270 and $230 respectively. But now you can pick up the 5 inch model from Amazon for $229, or grab the 4 inch Galaxy Player 4.0 for $189. That makes the…

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The iPod touch is a pretty amazing little device that bridges the gap between a portable media player and a smartphone. It’s a handheld device that you can use to surf the internet, listen to music, watch movies, play games, or download hundreds of thousands of applications. With a starting price of $199, it’s cheaper than a smartphone — and…

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The Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 is a portable media player with a 5 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, Android 2.2 Froyo operating system, and 8GB of storage space. It’s basically a big smartphone, except it can’t make phone calls. First unveiled in February, some folks looking for a good Android equivalent of an Apple iPod touch have been…

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Sony is launching its next-generation Sony Walkman portable media player. We got an early look at the device last month, back when it was still called the “Sony Walkman Mobile Entertainment Player.” The new, easier to remember name is the Sony Walkman Z. The portable media player features a 4.3 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, a 1 GHz NVIDIA…

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Philips has unveiled a new portable media player called the GoGear Connect 3. It’s a handheld device with a 3.2 inch touchscreen display and Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. You can use the device to listen to music or watch videos, but it also ships with the Android Market for access to over 300,000 Android apps. In other words, just like the…

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The Samsung Galaxy WiFi 3.6 looks like a smartphone, but it’s not. Instead it’s a handheld device that runs Google Android, offers WiFi connectivity, and does just about everything an Android phone does — except for make phone calls or surf the web over 3G or 4G. It’s kind of like Apple’s iPod touch, except it runs Android. Samsung has…

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It looks like Samsung is preparing to offer a whole family of Android powered handheld devices that don’t make phone calls. I got a chance to check out the Samsung Galaxy Player with its 3.2 inch display and Samsung Hummingbird processor at CES. Yesterday the company unveiled its big brother, the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0, which has similar specs…

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The Samsung Galaxy Player was one of the best looking Google Android powered portable media players I got a chance to see at CES last month. If you’re looking for a pocketable Android device which can do pretty much everything except make phone calls (and which doesn’t require a monthly phone contract), the little guy fits the bill thanks to…

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The Cowon D3 is a 3.7 inch portable media player sporting Google Android 2.1. First announced earlier this month, it’s now available for pre-order. The D3 is one of the more intriguing iPod touch alternatives expected to hit the streets this year, thanks to its AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with an 800 x 480 pixel resolution, HDMI output, support for 1080p…

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OK, so we’ve already established that the Creative Zen Touch 2 isn’t the best Android handheld media player that money can buy. But you know what is? The Samsung Galaxy Player. The only catch is that it’s not available for purchase in the US yet, but it should be soon. I got a chance to spend a few minutes with…

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