Given iPod touch sales have always made up a large proportion of iOS's total userbase early 2010 estimates putting its share at 41 percent - the fact no manufacturer has offered up a legitimate equivalent for Android is a startling oversight.
Samsung's new Galaxy Player proposes to do just that, delivering what commentators are already billing as a stripped down version of the firm's Galaxy S naturally without phone capabilities, and sporting a Super Clear LCD screen rather than AMOLED - in media player form.
Lengthy launch
Also on board is a 1GHz CPU, wi-fi, Bluetooth 3.0, 3.2 MP rear camera and front facing camera, GPS, HD video playback, microSD card slot, access to both Android Market and Samsung Apps, with Samsung equipping it with Android 2.2 - also known as Froyo.
Its release is also nearing, with Samsung reportedly claiming it will roll out Galaxy Player in South Korea in January, an unveiling at CES 2011 due the same month.
Any launch in the US and Europe will come some time after, however. The Wall Street Journal claims Samsung has cited a western launch window of between April and June.
The media player player
Samsung already has a finger in the media player pie, with the firm having branded previous players under the Yepp name.
However, that's a trend set to change with the launch of Galaxy Player. Samsung's phone division has been handed full control of the device, hence its obvious similarities to Galaxy S, which sold five million units within its first two months, and around ten million during 2010.
"We will use a Galaxy Player brand for the Galaxy series world-wide and the Yepp brand for normal media players in Korea," said Samsung VP of product planning Kim Jong-in.
[source: Wall Street Journal]
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