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Fleet Android Compete with iPod
IPod’s market dominance in the music player device perched be long without a comparable competitor. However, with the Android platform, electronics manufacturers now have a chance to win a cake that was too long dominated by Apple.
One of the “fleet” that will shake the iPod is a device made by Phillips GoGear called Connect. This device is designed as a music player to provide easy synchronization of the music collection on your computer via Bluetooth, USB, and software Plilips Songbird.
Not only for listening to music, the GoGear Connect can also play MP4 video files, complete the application map and location based services. Like other Android based device, the package also comes Connect GoGear Google applications, and access to Android Market which provides tens of thousands of applications.
Philips GoGear Connect using a wide touch screen 3.2-inch, 16 GB hard drive, equipped with a WiFi connection to access the Internet, special earphones, cameras, and micro SD slot. This product will be available in Europe, China, and As from next October.
Android can also serve as Hotspot
Android Platform 2.2 or called Froyo adding new features that can turn a smartphone into hotspot. This might be one of attractive feature and will often be used by Android users because generally smartphone user also use other devices using WiFi access to access internet.
With these features, Froyo based smartphone can act as a WiFi router. Internet connection via a broadband cellular network can be shared to other devices via WiFi networks. It is very practical to use because it can flexibly be brought anywhere. You can use it in the meeting room, or even when driving in the car with the family.
“Now Android device can be used as portable hotspot and serve the needs of other devices, (for example) you can use for other devices that have no connection, like iPad, and the bill remains the same,” said Vic Gundotra, Google VP of Engineering in the event Google I / O in San Francisco, Thursday (05/20/2010) yesterday.
This ability is not really something new for a smartphone, though still very rare. Previously, navigation smartphones Garmin Asus M10 was also equipped with similar features. Based on Windows Mobile latest version 6.5.3, Garmin Asus M10 is designed to be used as navigational tools as well as a WiFi hotspot.