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This is the practical downside of being too cozy with carriers. A cheaper wifi-only model would be great for consumers but cuts the carriers out of the loop ent
by jsz0 16y ago
This is the practical downside of being too cozy with carriers. A cheaper wifi-only model would be great for consumers but cuts the carriers out of the loop entirely. Probably the same reason there's no 'iPod Touch killer' out there yet. All these companies are in the business of selling equipment to carriers. What the consumer wants is a secondary consideration at best.
- bane 16y agoIt's a good point. Their end-to-end supply chain assumes carriers are the end customer. I'm guessing some of the price inflation assumes some kind of subsidy from the carrier.
- michaelbuckbee 16y agoThis is a huge frustration to me as a developer, I wish I could buy an iPod touch style android device.
- rodh257 16y agoSamsung were talking about making a galaxy player, I think they've released it in some places, perhaps not world wide?
- ugh 16y agoOnly in Korea. No plans for releasing it anywhere else. Edit: Gadget blogs suck. Everyone I looked at says something different, it might be the case that the Player is also available somewhere in Europe. I can‘t buy it on amazon.de (Germany), though. To continue the theme of this discussion: The price also sucks when compared to the iPod touch (something between 200€ and 260€ for the 8GB model, you pay 230€ for the 8GB iPod touch).
- MaysonL 16y agoThe closest thing I've seen is a Zii Egg: they just released an Android 2.1 build to developers.
- jrockway 16y agoArchos has an entire line, from 2" screens to 10" screens.
- michaelbuckbee 16y agoThanks for the suggestion. The Archos 32 http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_32it/index.html?country=us&lang=en http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_32it/index.html?cou... seems like the closest to an android phone in terms of size.