14 DAY TRIAL // It appears ultraportable laptops and tablets aren't the only things that Samsung has sent out to stores, as a couple of small, wireless media players have also emerged from whatever their hiding place was.
The thing about today's consumer electronics industry is that it is moving increasingly much towards compactness and wireless support.
In fact, with more and more functionality getting integrated into even the smaller phone, it is only a matter of time before portable devices rival what is today's high-end PC.
Meanwhile, portable media players are gaining support for better video and audio quality, not to mention expanded connectivity.
The two new devices that Samsung has put together are this very sort of PMPs, going by the name of Galaxy S WiFi.
With screen sizes of 4 and 5 inches, respectively (since the devices do, indeed, have liquid crystal displays), the GALAXY S WiFi 4.0 and GALAXY S WiFi 5.0 are ready to serve.
They are priced at roughly $250 and $300, respectively, and have similar memory, storage and connectivity capabilities, not to mention file format support.
Loaded with the Android 2.2 operating system, they run n the ARM Cortex A8 chip, which has a frequency of 1 GHz.
Said CPU is assisted in its struggles by 512 MB of RAM (random access memory) and can play media off the 8 GB of built-in flash storage, as well as however much extra capacity can be added via the microSD slot. There is also built-in stereo audio.
The other important asset is the wireless connectivity, provided by not just Bluetooth 3.0, but also 802.11b/g/n WiFi.
Other specifications include what one would expect to find more in a smartphone than PMP, namely a compass, GPS, accelerometer, and a battery that can last for up to 60 hours of audio or 8 of video.