Samsung has been slowly encroaching on Apple’s iPhone and iPad turf, and now it appears the world’s second largest mobile manufacturer plans to assault Cupertino on a third front with an Android-powered media player at CES.
AppleInsider is reporting that Samsung plans to follow their successful smartphone and tablet attacks on Apple with a new Android-based media player called the Galaxy Player. According to the Samsung Hub fan blog, the iPod touch-like handheld “will be based on the company’s popular Galaxy S smartphone, without its mobile phone capabilities, and will run Google’s Android OS 2.2 Froyo.”
Samsung has made a splash in the Android market with their slick Galaxy S smartphone to compete with Apple’s iPhone, as well as the Galaxy Tab which aims squarely at the iPad. Now it appears that the Galaxy Player will take on Apple’s market domination with the iPod touch, complete with a handheld device that includes a front-facing VGA camera, a rear 3.2 megapixel camera and storage capacities of 8GB, 16GB and 32GB.
There’s no doubt that Samsung is a consumer electronics powerhouse, having already made its mark with flat-panel televisions, LCD displays and memory chips -- but as AppleInsider notes, tackling Apple’s domination of the portable media player market may be more difficult than they think.
“Top software maker Microsoft and former consumer electronics king Sony both tried, and failed, to compete with Apple's iPod line, in both solo efforts and as part of Microsoft's PlaysForSure licensing program,” AppleInsider noted. “Samsung hopes to ride the wave of Android apps, copying Apple's strategy of shoring up the iPhone platform by selling a music player that is almost functionally identical apart from not making mobile phone calls.”
With rumors swirling that we’ll also see Android-based smartphones for under $100 in 2011, the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in early January is shaping up to be an interesting one for sure.
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(Image courtesy of AppleInsider and Samsung Hub)
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Can't companies like Samsung come up with anything original. Apple Anything (iPod, iPhone, iTouch, iPad) and they only reverse engineer everything they make.
