GoGear Connect: Android Media Player From Phillips Coming In July
| by Rob Jackson on February 24th, 2010 |
First of all, yes – there are portable media players besides the iPod. Second of all, Phillips is the manufacturer of some devices in this class, most recently the GoGear Muse. At a media event, the company just announced that it would make an Android version of this media player called the GoGear Connect and it should be launching in July 2010.
The above images is of the non-Android Muse, but company officials claim the GoGear Connect will be a very similar form factor but have GPS and Wi-Fi tacked on. Some expected specs:
- 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen
- Haptic feedback
- Bluetooth
- microSD card slot
- 8GB internal memory
- TV-out port
- GPS & Wi-Fi as stated above
- Full Android Market
That last one especially floats my boat. I’m a bit surprised a manufacturer hasn’t already launched, or attempted to launch, a main stream and ultra-affordable Android media player. Could the GoGear Connect be it?
[Via Pocket-Lint]
1. diego wrote on February 24, 2010
man i know this doesnt fit here but when the heck is the nexus one finally coming to germany??? Are there no rumors? Since the one with february was wrong I thought maybe this march? my contract goes only for 1 month and I wanna get it as a cheaper phone through the endingt contract…tell me phandroid!!! ^^
2. c-guy wrote on February 24, 2010
i gotta have one of these!!!!
3. Jonathan wrote on February 24, 2010
they should sell the media player software portion on the market so we can finally get proper divx, etc playback – assuming this thing would support divx and a range of other formats that most media players do nowadays.
4. Mikal wrote on February 24, 2010
So no touchscreen but full access to Android Market? Well that’s going to be useful…
Anyway Android with just three buttons and a d-pad seems a bit awkward to me. It’d better come with a touchscreen or it’s going to be useless.
5. aaryn wrote on February 24, 2010
@mikal iyt clearly says 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen
smh
6. aaryn wrote on February 24, 2010
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/02/philips_gogear_connect_is_android-powered.html theres the real thing im so gonna get one
7. Thomas wrote on February 24, 2010
@Mikal I don´t know but I think “3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen” meens touchscreen ;)
8. jo wrote on February 24, 2010
why does everything seems to be coming in the 2nd half of the year?!
9. Matt Wheeler wrote on February 24, 2010
I once had saw a Radio Shack employee touch the screen of a dumb phone and say to someone, “see, it has a touchscreen”
10. cool wrote on February 24, 2010
The GPS ability for a music app I just don’t get, but if they have a useful function for it then more power to them. The stock media player isn’t all that bad, just lacks some major functions. So bring it on Phillips…
:)
11. Mikal wrote on February 24, 2010
aww, crap I guess I forgot my (google)goggles…
Or maybe I can get away with: nawww, it wasn’t there before! They added it later!
Hm, sounds a whole lot better then!
12. Philipsphanboi wrote on February 24, 2010
PhiLips, the company’s name is PhiLips, one “L”. Please people, get it right :(
13. Terran wrote on February 25, 2010
finally, an MP3 player that isnt made by apple or MS that actually seems cool. im just curious as to what version of android this will have, if it is gonna be a resistive or capacitive touch screen, and how much it will be.