Samsung’s latest oversized iPhone/iPod Touch lookalike, publicized at Mobile World Congress, causes slightly of confusion. It’s perceptibly the superior brother of the uniformly monotonously named Galaxy S WiFi 4.0. Some people say the 4.0 was previously known as YP-MB2/Galaxy Player 50, while our very own industry insider, lebellium, clarifies that it’s essentially the YP-GB1, released without Korea-specific DMB features for the international market. So where does that leave the 5.0, in the sea of all these confusing names and acronyms? I don’t know, my head is already spinning. Maybe it’s just a shrunken Galaxy Tab 10.1…
What we know is that the Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 (GSW5) runs on Android 2.2, sports a 5″ Super Clear LCD screen at 800×480, a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, a MicroSD slot, and a 5 megapixel camera with flash, for all your artsy Facebook photography needs. The vast thing about this phone-without-a-phone is that it comes with Android Market support right out of the box. This is a vast advantage over the non-phone Android offers from Archos (Gen 8 devices) and Cowon (D3), which have no official access to the Market – therefore rendering them quite inferior, software-wise, to even the humblest of Android phones, such as the ZTE Blade. While some kind hackers already gave Archos the possibility to access the Market, there’s no such option for the D3 yet, leaving you at the mercy of Cowon to come up with some quality apps, such as scientific calculators. Samsung licensing the Market on their Galaxy players is the smartest move so far for gadgets without SIM card slot.
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