Popularity Android could make Philips smitten create a media player device based on Google’s OS besutan. Connect GoGear, thus its name, simply stunning with a variety of multimedia capabilities possessed.
Introduced in electronics and technology exhibition Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in 2010, in Berlin, Germany, show off Android device this shows his ability to play music and movies, take photos, and surfing in cyberspace.
Connect GoGear will be shipped with preloaded applications, including the Android Market, Google Talk and Google Maps. This device was originally run with Android 2.1 or known by the name of eclairs and will be upgraded to 2.2 or Froyo Android in early 2011.
Philips says Product Manager, Connect GoGear includes a built-in 16GB of storage that can be added up to 32GB with a MicroSD card. It also has no WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and a 2-megapixel camera to capture pictures and record videos at VGA resolution.
Input device that weighs only 128 grams is using the touch screen through the hand-sized 3.2-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels. But there is also a trackball in the center below the screen as an alternative input.
Affairs of endurance, not to worry. The battery is quite durable, which is able to rotate up to 25 hours of audio content and video displays for five hours. Connect GoGear soon be available in the United States and Europe in recent weeks with a price tag of EUR 321 or about USD 2.8 million. But not yet known whether Philips will also launch a global scale or not.
