Five things to know about Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0

By NVONews Tech Correspondent,

Samsung’s Android based Apple iPod touch killer Galaxy Player 5.0 Wi-Fi is just to arrive in shelves across the world. Samsung announced its Galaxy Player portable music player at IFA 2010 and showcased its prototype at CES 2011 in January. The Korean company is now introducing the much-awaited Android music player in global markets.

In comparison to Apple iPod touch that recently received its fifth major upgrade, Galaxy Player 5.0 has several outstanding features. Running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the music player is indeed capable to compete with Apple’s iOS 5-featured iPod touch. Here are five exciting things for you about the upcoming Galaxy Player 5.0 Wi-Fi.

1. Galaxy Player 5.0 Vs Apple iPod touch fifth generation
Apple firstly launched its iPod touch music player in September 2007. The only-for-music device later received some drastic upgrades with Internet surfing and video chatting appearing on the player. Anyway, Apple iPod and iPod touch changed the way people used to listen to music all over the world. It is here Samsung announced its plan to compete with iPod touch in help of Android, which already houses several amazing smartphones in battle with Apple iPhone. When announcing Galaxy Player music players, Samsung directly meant to defy the dominance of iPod touch in global markets. Certainly, many reviewers sternly believe that Galaxy Player can put dent into the supremacy of iPod touch.

2. Google Marketplace Vs iTunes
It is an undeniable fact that Apple iPod touch in invincible because it has loads of content and apps in iTunes app store. Instead of iTunes, we have Google Marketplace for content on Galaxy Player. Though not as rich as iTunes, Google Marketplace has lots of genuine apps and contents for your Galaxy Player 5.0. Certainly, developers and content providers will add much more content into Google Marketplace. Anyway, in the initial stage, Galaxy Player 5.0 will find it hard to combat iPod touch that already has thousands of trusted developers and millions of customers.

3. Large display
This is what one of key features that makes Galaxy Player 5.0 better than iPod touch. The music device has a 5-inch display as its moniker itself speaks out. But at the same time Apple’s iPod touch has only a 3.5-inch display. Surely, it is one of things that give a thrust for music lovers. A large display often helps users surf the web and navigate through slideshows smoother. Definitely, like iPod touch, Galaxy Player 5.0 is not only meant for music listening. It is for web browsing and movie watching too.

4. Better rear camera
Galaxy Player 5.0 sports a 3.2-megapixel camera with flash. It means along with music listening and web surfing, you can capture quality images with the music player. Further, using apps, you can edit and share them on social networking sites like Facebook. Moreover, the camera of Galaxy Player 5.0 is better than that of an iPod touch. The Apple music player mounts only a 0.7-inch camera in the rear panel. But iPod touch has a VGA camera in the front for FaceTime video chatting. Yes, Galaxy Player 5.0 is with no video chatting feature.

5. Android OS
Galaxy Player 5.0 is to come to stores with Android 2.2 Froyo. But it seems the device is now ready for launch with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. In war with iOS, Google Android is a proven contender. The platform is working well on a line of smartphones in competition to iPhone. No doubt, Android is the single operating system that could defy Apple iOS ever. Thanks to the open source nature of Android there will be more third party apps for the music player that runs on the software.

Conclusion
It is a time companies duplicate the product of others. We have already seen smartphones and tablets that Samsung and other companies manufactured in the very shape of Apple’s iPhone, iPad and notebooks. Today, in portable music player industry also, we are to see devices like Galaxy Player 5.0 in form of Apple iPod touch. Maybe in near future we will be witnessing Windows Phone-based music players also.

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The 404 706: Where Grandma got ran over by an iPad (podcast)

Scott Stein of CNET’s Digital City Podcast is the latest victim we’ve pulled into The 404 studio to co-host the show while Jeff is honeymooning in Hawaii.

Scott brings his expertise in mobile computing to help us discuss today’s stories about elderly iPad-ing, cracking iPhone 4s, the link between hyper-texting teens and risky behavior, mobile STD testing, and how to protect your kids from digital predators that happen to be named Wilson G. Tang.

The holidays are approaching quicker than we thought, but Scott is already prepared with a brand-new Apple iPad for his father-in-law, proving the universality of all Apple products. Scott’s a dedicated iPad user himself, but still hopes for the day when all syncing is done in the cloud…unfortunately, that feature lives in same Apple dimension as external storage and flawless cellular reception, so we’ll likely see it materialize in the iPad 19G.

We haven’t completely fallen down the Apple rabbit hole yet, but we do come up with a new digital concept called the Syncing Centipede, so listen up, but don’t you dare steal the idea.

Apple has its own internal problems to deal with, and yet another iPhone 4 flaw has surfaced, this time regarding several cases causing cracks and scratches on the back of the phone.

The irony of this story is twofold: first, Apple used to recommend these recalled cases to mitigate the initial reception crisis, and second, what about Apple claiming that the glass on the iPhone 4 was supposedly 30 times stronger than the 3G’s plastic back and therefore less prone to scratches? Let’s take bets on how many of these “flaws” will miraculously disappear with the introduction of the iPhone 5.

Or maybe we should just get rid of phones altogether, because apparently teens who text more than 120 times a day (media’s calling them “hyper-texters”) are more likely to engage in risky behavior like sex, drugs, and alcohol abuse.

So says a study done at 20 public high schools in Cleveland last year, where researchers found that one in five students were hyper-texters, one in nine are hyper-social networkers, and one in four students had sent or received a sext message!

This understandably makes Scott worried for his own young kids, and he makes a good point about the importance of parents setting rules to limit the amount of texting and Internet use per day. Semirelated story: We need more Superparents like this!

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One in five iPhone owners would rather change banks than smartphones

A survey has surfaced this week courtesy of the fine folks at GfK Group which had one in five consumers who owned both an iPad and an iPhone saying that switching to a new smartphone would be more difficult than changing their bank account. Of course with how often they use their devices, the fact that each application’s data sits on that device or in many cases does not exist on other mobile OS platforms, the switch to a new iPhone is the only realistic choice. This research was conducted across nine countries including Brazil, China, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, UK and the US, and had an aim at finding consumers barriers to switching between types of smartphones and “the impact of their attitudes towards the overall user experience.”

Findings in this study concluded that nearly 1 out of every 5 consumers (19%) owning both an iPad and an iPhone also thought that changing types of smartphone would be more difficult than changing their gas or electricity provider. This lends itself the GfK’s finding that loyalty to a smartphone brand grows with the number of apps and services that a user uses. The tipping point, the study says, is when a user uses seven or more services on their device. As for which countries had the most people using a total of 7 or more services on their device, the USA lead the charge:

Consumers in the US are the most likely to use seven or more services (61%), followed closely by China (56%) and Brazil (53%). In comparison to this, European countries use fewer services on their smartphone; France and Italy (46%), Germany (45%), Spain (43%) and the UK (42%).

Of the users participating in the survey, 72% said that simplicity was the key element in their everyday user experience. This means that switching from a phone that they already know how to use is essentially the biggest barrier between them and doing so. Each of the main barriers in this regard also have to do with user experience:

33% of respondents cited disrupting their current smartphone set-up (i.e. the apps and features I use)
29% – having to learn how to use another type of smartphone
28% – having to move their content (music, video, books, apps) from one type of smartphone to another

And speaking on that last point — 80% of consumers who owned a tablet, a smartphone, and a PC found it important to access media content (music, books, apps) on any of their internet-connected devices. As far as vast differences in region, this study found that while Western Europe wants simplicity above all else, China prefers access. Germany had 84% of consumers saying that ease of use was at the top of their list for must-have features on devices, while in China 92% of respondents said their need to access content across all their devices was the most important thing.

Imagine that! What’s most important to you?

[via GfK]

Article source: http://www.slashgear.com/one-in-five-iphone-owners-would-rather-change-banks-than-smartphones-25198045/

More Problems With iOS 5 Update, iPhone Users Losing Wi-Fi Connectivity

Without wishing to worry already annoyed iPhone 4S users any further, after battery and SIM card issues, there are reports of yet another problem arising as a result of the recent iOS 5 update.

Apparently, a number of users reported that after they had installed Apple’s latest OS update, they noticed poor Wi-Fi performance on their iDevices, or in the worst cases, the Wi-Fi connection stopped altogether, KnowYourMobile reports. 

Posts on Apple’s official support forum seem to indicate that the early problems with devices losing Wi-Fi capability appeared ever since the users updated to iOS 5, though the 5.0.1 update didn’t resolve things either. Some are complaining about intermittent connectivity or a low signal.

One user tried to get rid of the problem by reverting his device back to iOS 4.3 which succeeded in solving the Wi-Fi connectivity issue. After reinstalling iOS 5 again, the problem once again came back.

This time, the problem is not limited to the iPhone 4S, but affects many types of devices including the iPad, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G to various degrees. Oddly enough, the iPad 2 doesn’t seem to be affected by the problem, which leads to questions about Apple’s different approaches to the compatibility between hardware and software.

Article source: http://www.itproportal.com/2011/11/25/problems-ios5-update-iphone-users-losing-wifi-connectivity/