12-13-2011, 12:38 AM | #1 |
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Samsung Galaxy Player Price Drop
Amazon and Best Buy have dropped the prices of the Galaxy Players. The 4" is now $200 (formerly $230) and the 5" is now $240 (formerly $270). They're readily available at both stores.
I have one of each and they're great media players/tablets. They're essentially Galaxy S1 phones without the 3G radio. I got the 4" to replace my iPod touch 4 and the 5" to replace my Nook Color CM7. I'm very pleased with both of them and the roles they play in my gadget lineup. Last edited by tubemonkey; 12-13-2011 at 12:47 AM. Reason: data correction |
12-13-2011, 01:52 AM | #2 |
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12-13-2011, 05:04 AM | #3 |
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It's really nice. I plan to carry this one around with me because of its better feature set as compared to my iPod touch 4. The Galaxy will allow me to do outdoor activities I could never do with the iPod - geocaching, hiking, sky maps, etc.
Galaxy Player 4 vs iPod touch 4
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The 5" was $209 at Best Buy last week.
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12-13-2011, 11:07 AM | #5 |
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12-13-2011, 07:30 PM | #6 |
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I picked up the SGP 4 a couple of days ago. I really like it. I have owned several iPods, 3 iPod touches (latest one the gen 4) and a iPad but I am getting out of the iOS ecosystem.
The Kindle Fire is really to blame. Once I started playing around loading music up to the Amazon Cloud, I could not justify dealing with iTunes again. Now I just load the music to the cloud and stream my collection. Much more satisfactory. And the flexibility of Android has made a believer of me. I will keep the iPad I have for games at home, but for on the go, I am sticking with Kindle Fire for video and ebooks and the SGP 4 for music, GPS and FM and internet radio. Last edited by Donnageddon; 12-13-2011 at 07:32 PM. |
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Also psyched that the SGP 4 has bluetooth. Really wish the Fire had that.
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I have several speaker docks and rely on my iPod for music streaming and audiobooks as I move about the house. It's extremely convenient to plant it in the dock and continue where I left off. Not so for my SGP. I have to lay it down, hook up an aux cord from the speaker dock to the headphone jack, and then the power cord to a wall socket. What a cluttered, inconvenient mess. So I decided to keep the 8GB iPt4 I bought on Black Friday. It's an amazing internet radio device. I'm giving my 32GB iPt4 away to a family member. |
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12-14-2011, 12:16 AM | #10 |
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... and now, after I realized that the free 5 gb were just not gonna be adequate for my music colection, I ordered the 20 gb for $20/yr option. And I did not know it at the time, but all the music files I have saved from emusic.com, and all MP3 files do not count against the 20gb! Now I am not sure what I am gonna fill the cloud with.
I'll think of sumthin. Amazon is really playing hardball. EDIT: ... and now I realize that is just for the first year. I'll let the 20 gb lay fallow for when Amazon decides to charge me for the non-Amazon music next year. Last edited by Donnageddon; 12-14-2011 at 12:32 AM. |
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12-18-2011, 06:00 PM | #12 |
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Planning a trip to Best Buy tomorrow morn to check out both sizes. Looks like a good deal to use on bus/car trips. Better size than Nook Color for traveling.
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The screen is brilliant and the 5" is an excellent size. Still not as nice as the AMOLED screen, but without a side by side reference I'd be none the wiser. TubeM I can see why you've quit using the nook for the G Player. =X= |
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