Samsung Set To Introduce Android-Based iPod Touch Competitor

blixtech writes "Virtually unchallenged in the portable media player market, Apple's iPod Touch is set to receive a pretty strong competitor at CES 2011. Samsung has just announced they will showcase an Android-powered PMP called the Galaxy Player, featuring almost the same hardware as the Galaxy S smartphone."

Re:Virtually unchallenged?

[samkass]

What's so different about this Samsung compared to the range of Archos Android devices...

The Archos uses resistive touch screen with much lower resolution. It doesn't connect to the Android Marketplace for apps. They're not built in any quantity so are always "Out of Stock" (go ahead... I dare you to try to actually buy a 43it). And for that it's basically the same price as the iPod Touch. It's hard to say they're a competitor when almost no one can actually buy one.

Samsung, though, is a household name associated with quality products, and more to the point they operate their own screen and chip fabs so can actually make the things in quantity. I could see an iPod Touch competitor from them actually being real.

Re:The usual $50.00 question...

[yincrash]

The Galaxy S phones are ridiculously easy to get root access. It's just a manual software update using the normal update mechanism. Samsung doesn't do the things that Motorola and HTC have been putting in their phones to try and prevent rooting. I suspect that the Galaxy Player would be the same.

Re:Virtually unchallenged?

[mattcsn]

Take a look at Sansa's Clip+. It's compact, cheap, weighs almost nothing, has great battery life, has a microsdhc card slot, works as a standard USB mass storage device, has genuine physical buttons, plays ogg and flac in addition to mp3 and wma, and has sound quality easily as good as your Zen.

Re:Always the best

[russotto]

hammering your amp's low power input to save "wear" on the part thats been designed to actually do work

ROTFL. It makes sense to keep the input signal at the maximum non-distorting power level, because that's typically going to result in the highest SNR for the system as a whole. "Wear" isn't involved at all. It makes sense to do as much amplification as possible close to the source, which in this case is the iPod's DAC.