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Originally Posted by twobits
MP3 Players (for audiobooks)
[*]Samsung Galaxy Player 4" ($230) -- Amazon ($189) / Best Buy ($190)
I picked up one of these. I think they have it very mispositioned as an mp3 player only. It is basically a cell phone without the cell phone radio. So it can run most android apps and also works just fine as a wifi VoIP phone. So it is really a pda, pocket pc like device that can also double as a phone when you are in range of wifi. I set it up with csipsimple and it works well. However, due to the fact samsung thinks of it as an mp3 player (oh, it also plays a lot more formats the just mp3), the stripped out the dialer component of the OS so the contact list integration is not present with csipsimple. I had to switch to a paid app for now to get this. Cant wait for a custom rom to appear of Samsung to realize they should not strip out the dialer just because it does not have a cell radio. This is a neat device that I think will not sell as well as it should because Samsung marketing has it position all wrong.
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I don't really get this type of "MP3 player." I expected it would support protected WMA (WMA9/PlaysForSure/MTP), which would add value over an Android cellphone. But no, it's like you said, a smartphone sans cell radio.
Why not just get a pre-paid Android phone, like the cheaper Optimus V (3.2") or the Motorola Triumph (4.1", but still holding its value at over $200)? Or get a used smartphone with a bad ESN for cheap. Soon, most of us will have old smartphones we've retired, with old phone OSs, that will still be servicable media players, and will do VOIP calling like you want (I use sipdroid/pbxes.org on an Optimus V).
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Yeah, it's a 4" tablet.
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Yeah, that seems what it is. But what's the value proposition compared to a pre-paid or bad ESN smartphone?