The Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 is the first major competitor of Apple’s iPod. This iPod is blessed with certain important and latest features as introduced by this company in this iPod. Amongst the important features, the main features include good looking hardware, excellent battery life, sufficient memory and the free integrated turn by turn navigation. Its major drawbacks include the slow performance of the camera only. The actual price of $ 299.99 exactly matches with the features and specifications of this iPod.
This iPod is being installed with the latest Google operating system, Android. The users of this iPod can enjoy more than 200,000 Android applications with the help of this operating system. The most used features of web browser with flash, free navigation and well defined media players have also been included in this iPod. The Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 is using the Android 2.3.5 OS with Samsung’s TouchWiz extensions. With the help of this, there is collection of more than 200,000 Android applications. The users can enjoy plenty of games, movie magazines, latest music album release and many more with the help of this operating system. In addition to Android application, there is also Samsung’s own applications store which offers some applications for free. The users can download free Amazon’s application store and they can also get the applications from GetJar’s applications store.
Moving towards further, the Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 has different soft wares including Skype, Tango and Fring while its major competitor has FaceTime. The Samsung Galaxy Player connects to the web through using Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n. The pre installed Android web browser supports Flash. There are also other web browsers including Opera Mini, Dolphin HD and Firefox.
With a bright 4.0 inches LCD with 800 x 480 resolutions is present on the front above the three standard Android touch buttons. Its exact measurement is 2.5 x 4.9 x 4 inches with just 4.3 ounces weight; it is showing the best piece in the market. There is a 3.2 mega pixels camera on the back of it and a VGA camera on the front side. The internal memory is 8 GB and it can be further enhanced up to 32 GB through micro SD card. The performance of the battery is also excellent and it has shown the continuous performance of more than 8 hours including the video play back too.
Its really nice! The screen is very vibrant and the price point is good as well. I also like the option to have the five inch screen!