Thread: I am waiting for the next issue of Samsung Galaxy Players.
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Old 04-11-2013, 12:33 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by Tabatha View Post
Appears to be 'End of Life' for most mp3 players due to all the Smartphones. Now have to google how to get around carrier activation to be able to use as WIFI only device.
Bingo! I was just thinking about Samsung Galaxy Players to see if they had gotten realistic pricing/features yet, found this thread then meanwhile (not really reading the thread but leaving it open in a tab) I got to thinking well, I've just got this new nexus 4(16GB $350(IIRC this cheaper than what the SGP started at retail), c. 12GB available OOB) which can do everything a player would do(minus HDMI output and no uSD slot hence the 16GB version) get frequent OS updates, high res display(1280x7?? I've forgotten IPS panel), which as an added bonus is also my phone so why would I want a little dedicate mp3/vid player?

My answer was I don't any longer, and it's really something that I had been thinking for a while now given that smartphones(higher end ones at least) were just better suited than the purely dedicated devices. As a secondary benefit it eliminates an extra device to carry. Primary drawback in the n4's case are non-user replaceable batt, and no external storage option(well you could do USB OTG, and this is the most irritating, to me minus), and no HDMI out but in my case getting Android updates FAR outweighed those minuses.

The battery thing: well, I'm light on phone useage but with this one I have left it connected to cell almost constantly, do some voice(not hours of course but fair minutes), messaging(SMS/email), GPS usage(ingress, geocaching, GPS really sucks batt so I limit on time as much as possible, don't really need it for navigation, but I'd probably get a car charger if I was going to) and can mostly still get 2d use between charges. Also, left the backlight control to auto, which I used to manually adjust on older phones even when I replaced OEM batt with extended cap ones(dunno why, I just did). i.e. as a music/reader I could easily see the n4(or almost any other recent higher end smartphone w/a decent cap batt) being able to last at least 4-5d. Of course if you did video and/or alot of GP it would be MUCH shorter OTOH exactly how much video can you cram into 12GB? and as I mentioned frequent GPS use I'd presume mostly vehicle bound, so some sort of charger in vehicle.
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