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 […]
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Samsung Galaxy WiFi 3.6 is an Android handheld (not a phone)
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 […]
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Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 joins the family
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 […]
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Samsung introduces Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 portable Android device
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 […]
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Cowon D3 Android media player now up for pre-order
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, […]
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Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Player
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 […]
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Hands-on with the Creative Zen Touch 2 Android media player
Google’s Android operating system is showing up everywhere. What started out as a smartphone OS is powering tablets, notebooks, and portable media players like the Creative Zen Touch 2. While I could certainly see some folks eying this little media player as a way to try out Android without actually buying a phone and signing […]
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Creative Zen Touch 2 Android portable media player coming to the US?
It wasn’t that long ago that US residents looking for an Android-powered alternative to the Apple iPod touch didn’t have a lot of choices. OK, to be honest, you still don’t. While you can pick up an Archos 28 or Archos 32 handheld device running Android 2.2, you won’t find many other portable media players […]
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Samsung Galaxy Player set to launch internationally in mid-2011
As expected, the Wall Street Journal is confirming that Samsung will showcase its Galaxy Player handheld Android device at CES next week. But while Samsung is expected to launch its Android-powered answer to Apple’s iPod touch in Korea in January, it won’t ship in other countries until sometime between April and June. The Samsung Galaxy […]
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Cowon D3 Plenue is an Android 2.1 powered portable media player
It’s not quite the Samsung Galaxy Player, but Cowon’s new D3 Plenue is still an interesting personal media player. With Android 2.1 under the hood, a 3.7 inch 800×480 AMOLED display, 802.11B/G wireless, Bluetooth, accelerometer, storage capacities of 8, 16, and 32GB, and Cowon’s tendency to offer very competitive pricing, the D3 will certainly be […]