Samsung Galaxy Player Will Rival The New iPod Touch
Samsung plans to bring the iPod Touch rival at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in early January. The Media Player device is planned to be present in market after the presence of Samsung Galaxy S. Basically this product is similar to S Galaxy, but minus the phone function or SMS. From the OS, Galaxy player is equipped with Android 2.2 Froyo.
Just as the latest generation of iPod Touch, the device will come in 8 GB, 16 GB or 32 GBÂ capacities, and has been equipped with front and rear camera. Quoted from digitaltrends on Wednesday, here are some specifications of the Samsung Galaxy Player:
* Width 9.9 mm
* Processor 1 GHz Hummingbird
* 4 inch LCD display (WVGA 800 x 400)
* Technology enchancing audio SoundAlive
* Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth 3.0
* Camera 3.2 MP
* HD video player
* MicroSD Slot
This product will be on display at CES January 6 next. Unfortunately until now there is no leakage price range.
Sony Bye-Bye Walkman
Remember the Walkman? Cassette player device that once had been very popular finally meet death. Sony Walkman that had become the largest producer, has decided to stop its manufacturing. According to the company which is based in Japan, they have been doing the last Walkman shipping in the Japanese market earlier this year. And if all units were sold out the Walkman will not be produced anymore. As quoted from PC Mag on Sunday, Sony itself began producing portable cassette player device since 1979.
Walkman may be a little late for its debut, but in the 1980′s, the device was then developed into a portable stereo. Its presence has also been replaced by an MP3 player. But a big achievement because of the Walkman ever be one device that successfully sold over 220 million units worldwide and has produced for more than 30 years.
However, Sony still remember the name by using it to name the ‘Walkman MP3 player’ such as Walkman NWZ-E350 series. Not only that, Sony also used the name for one of the features Walkman music player on their mobile phones.
And what about CDs? Sony says it will still produce CDs despite the popularity keeps declining. Previously, Sony had announced it would terminate the sales of floppy discs, a storage medium that has been produced by Sony since 1983. Sayonara, Walkman.
Upcoming Samsung Mp3 Player: Icetouch Transparent AMOLED Screen
Hey hey it has been a while and I didn’t update news about mp3 player. Well no doubt that mp3 players can be a very good idea as gadget gifts, and after some couple of time our attention is turning to some android and tablets stuff, now let’s back again to our favorite entertaining gadget, mp3 players.
As written on crave.cnet.co.uk, samsung has designed an mp3 player which is designed in transparent style with AMOLED screen. This mp3 player will be named IceTouch.
IceTouch Samsung mp3 player is designed supporting various kinds of file formats, like MP3, WMA, Ogg, FLAC, MP3HD, ACC, M4A and WAV audio files. It’ll also play MPEG4, WMV, H.264, DivX and XviD video files, has a built-in radio, and will come in 8GB and 16GB models.
Samsung IceTouch is approximately going to be launched by the second quarter of 2010.
