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hey guys so today I'm here with another episode of d3 live so today we're going to be talking about these Samsung Galaxy player versus the iPod Touch 4th generation and now before we get I do want to go ahead and give you wish you guys all a really happy New Year and also go ahead and let you all know that i'm using my brand new Nikon d3100 so hopefully the quality's a lot better it's not focused or there's some technical issues bear with me I'm just still learning that easy so anyway that's what just get it straight on into the topic now for Samsung has just recently announced they will be creating an iPod Touch competitor in the Galaxy Tab the galaxy player to meet Alex in earrings so this is them look pretty cool we know a lot of us have been waiting for some kind of Android iPod touch competitor for a while this looks like it's going to be one of the very first solid ones so of course we'll go ahead talk about that just saying let's just go ahead and back up and talk just a little bit about the iPod Touch 4th generation for those of you who aren't familiar put that one right here basically I bought those fourth generation is a really really solid device basically it is an iPhone without the phone or just the way a lot of people have talked about for a long time still have all the same apps you still got a very similar you know build runs the same kind of operating system and with the new iPod Touch 4th generation you do still have the FaceTime camera as well as a rear-facing camera which while not quite as good as the iPhone 4 still is pretty nice to have you know in just a couple hundred dollar iPod so basically what Samsung is planning on doing is really doing their best to match this with the news galaxy player so what they've done it's very similar to what they've done with the samsung galaxy s lineup of phones they've been known under a lot of different branding such as the vibrant the Epic 4G the continuum which is technically it's a little bit different but they're all very very similar phones they said they've done pretty much the same thing they've taken out the phone they've made it where you know she's gonna be a standard you know mp3 player that you know of course does everything else that you expect you know an Android device to do so some of the really key things that I like about these galaxy player the specs is it's got more stuff than you the iPod touch in a lot of different areas so if take for example for has got Android which that's that's not such a huge advantage of course you know android/ios you know they both had the pros and cons covert hardware wise it does have some big things so one thing is you can actually go ahead and does have an interchangeable battery so unlike the iPod Touch where the battery goes there's not a whole lot you can do about it certainly not easy to you know to tear the thing apart and get at the battery it's almost impossible when is this you know you can just pop a brand new battery and no problem in addition to this it also does have GPS now I have no idea why Apple has spent so long not putting the GPS putting any kind of GPS in the iPod Touch I think would make a lot of senses you know just being able to forgive an iPod with GPS would do really well then of course this is going to be a feature in the gassy player I'm they'll be running Android 2.2 Froyo with their own custom interface with Oprah personal I'm not a big fan of custom interfaces however no it's not it shouldn't be a huge deal and in fact it will make it run a little bit closer to iOS so if you know if you never use an Android device before it should be a little bit more user friendly I'm so continuing on with some of the other cool things it will be available in 8 16 and 32 gigabyte capacities of course I'm talking about the galaxy plate here it also will have a micro SD card expansion slot so again unlike the iPod touch where you know you buy an age 32 or 64 gigabyte capacities and you know there's nothing else to it you know if you want to ever expand it or there's really nothing you can do if you can easily go ahead and buy the gassy player then you know we can buy the eight game you realize that that's not gonna be quite enough for you so nobody deal you know spend a little bit of money buy a micro SD card and you can expand it so that's really a nice thing again that I really like about it now as far as the screen sizes go they're actually going to be a little bit of a difference and the iPod Touch 4th generation you'll have a three and a half inch display with a resolution of 640 by 960 very very nice screen I course have my iPod Touch here a lot the screen now over the Galaxy player will have a little bit of a different screen it's gonna be larger 4-inch screen which should be very nice for typing for watching movies for a lot of different things need I like before just because it's an it's really a between a fine line between being way too big you know to carry around and deal with also it's not gonna being you know too small or anything that's gonna be really sighs that's going to be a 480 by 800 resolution display and it's not going to be a Super AMOLED so just like the iPhone 4 has a better display than the iPod Touch give it a say it be the same way the gasps es which has they have fantastic ring it's not gonna be quite as good on the gassy player however they should be you know pretty decent pretty decent guys that's mostly for the you know the overall specs not hot stuff now of course the galaxy player will be announced in 12 in announced that they're gonna be we're going to be getting hands-on everything next we could see yes and since I we're going to see yes it's gonna be one of the first things I'm going to do is go get myself a hands-on take a look at what I know so far the Galaxy Tab and gassy play I'm gonna leave the alumni the dousing player should be a really really solid competitor to the iPod touch now of course it's got a lot of the same features you know it's got still the same front-facing and bleeding should be a little bit better rear-facing camera so it's got a lot of the you know the strengths for the iPod Touch it's also got a lot of additional things that you know that really make it really gonna make it a lot better so definitely looking forward to see you know the price and all kind of stuff but for what we know so far the Samsung gases can be a really solid compared okay so for the second segment of day through the I I'll be taking live questions from everybody of the chat I've got quite a few people in here is that a voice of gladness take some questions can you jailbreak mod or hacking Samsung Galaxy player such a good question forced Android phones and Android devices in general tend to be a little bit simpler to hack than you may be the iPhone the iPod Touch and Samsung and specifically it doesn't seem to be too too focused on keeping everyone out generally they're the Samsung Galaxy lineup is fairly simple to hack so I would definitely expect to be able to route all do you know the Gaussian just just pretty much the same way you would route any other Samsung device this Apple making firmwares more often just to keep up with the Geo brick developers I yes and no yes there had been several like I believe it was four point oh point to was solely just go ahead and pretty much keep people from jailbreaking a lot of times they will you know you know speed up the firmware just come out just to patch holes but that said a lot of times I will just go ahead and just wait you know there's gonna be a new update you know they'll go ahead and just wait for it so sometimes yes sometimes they don't really care is Samsung jealous of Apple well that's kind of uh that's kind of a hard thing I think anybody is that jealous of Apple just of how you know how much money they're making but I don't know I don't really think so I think that they're all just trying to compete I just don't think it's gonna be like they're trying to copy or anything like that I think the the iPod Touch market I'm surprised nobody's really tried to go after that just because iPod Touch that's such a great idea I mean that's why I like mine so much because you not pay a ton of money and you know be stuck on a carrier that you might not necessarily necessarily like so or didn't you know of course you still have all the cool features and all that kind of stuff so I think the Samsung gas player is gonna be the first of many of those kind of devices only not the first but one of the first major competitors anyway it's gonna be a video editing program for the galaxy player like them I move you the iPod touch you know that's actually a good question um not that I know of now I don't really know I think there are doom really slight video and things in the Android app market however I do think that there's definitely a big possibility there wasn't major things with video anything though is that it's not it's not very simple app - right of course you know it's that's what video energon generally tend to be fairly expensive you know when you buy up for the computer and you know it took you know Apple themselves to make iMovie so I think there are definitely a big possibility of someone making it but I just don't know how good it will be until someone be like Samsung and Google somebody like that actually steps forward and makes an app like that well the galaxy player have the camera yes it actually will have to the rear-facing camera I believe is a 3.2 megapixel camera which should be better than the iPod Touch so I think it is about 0.7 megapixels definitely the iPod Touch is not very good camera for taking stills and but the front-facing camera both of them both should be of just a standard VGA so the front-facing camera should be about the same but the rear-facing camera on the gassing flutter should be do quite a bit better do you think Apple should let other companies sell computers with Mac os10 installed like Microsoft does you know that has been a thing that people talked about for so long you know whether Apple should go ahead just open up and you know allow by me to buy you know Adele running Mac or well you know whatever um you know I don't think that I think it would be kind of cool and you know that would be a really nice thing to be able to go ahead and just instead of buying Apple you can buy oh it's tuned on whatever you want but I don't see it happening I mean apples doing so well with OS 10 right now there's indeed was lying coming out soon I just don't see them actually just saying you know what we'll just open it up and just let it um well I think it's absolutely possible and it would be really nice they did not in the next few years maybe beyond that stuff could change but for the foreseeable future I don't see that happening do I think it would be cool if the gassy player could be hacked to run iOS let's say she kind of funny you mentioned that iOS and the iPod the iPhone have actually been recently been hacked to run Android now well I wouldn't say recently it's probably pin a few months but yeah so it actually does go the other way around one of the key things differences though is that Android is open source anybody can you know do whatever you want whereas iOS definitely is not so your where's anybody can go ahead download Android you can do whatever you want you can hack it however you like get right to into iOS a lot harder and I don't really see that being able to happen just because it's a lot more complicated when you don't have the source code on that's not more complicated it's next to impossible so it'd be cool but I really got it so yeah guys that's it for this week's absolutely d3 live now just one thing I do want to note I'm not sure what will happen next week for next week's d3 live I will be at CES so dude just keep in mind that b3 live might be a day or two early maybe a little bit late might be some weird time so definitely do keep out the look out for that I'll try to keep you guys updated anyway guys thanks for watching