Samsung Galaxy Player is up for CES 2011

Samsung is reportedly preparing a Galaxy Player for CES 2011 which is just round the corner. The upcoming Galaxy Player, as we have learned earlier this year, will not be the only media player Samsung plans to present next week at the exhibition, but the other YP-G50 is a bit short on specs next to the Galaxy Player model number YP-GB1. By the looks of things Galaxy Player inherits a lot of hardware components from the Galaxy S smartphone which is clever because all you have to do to design a multimedia player this days is take a GSM antenna out off a smartphone so its distribution wouldn’t face communication device licensing limitations.
Samsung Galaxy Player specifications:

Processor: 1 GHz

Display: 4" WVGA Super Clear LCD 800 × 480

Back camera: 3.2 megapixel

Front camera: VGA

Storage: 8/16/32 GB, microSD

Operating system: Android 2.2 Froyo with TouchWiz

Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS

Battery: 1200 mAh

Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview

It's been a long road, hasn't it? Well, in some respects, it hasn't -- in fact, it's only been about two years since development of Windows Phone 7 as we know it today kicked off -- but when you consider that this product will be replacing Windows Mobile 6.5, that puts things in proper perspective. In fact, even the very latest maintenance releases of good ol' WinMo are based on the same rickety underpinnings as version 5.0 was way back in 2005, at a time when WVGA smartphone displays were science fiction, 4G networks were a good two Gs beyond the average American's comprehension, and Engadget looked like this. Nowadays, it's a very different game; eight year-olds have access to mobile email, your phone understands German, and "Yelp" is a verb (okay, actually Yelp is a verb). Indeed, mobile devices are the new PCs -- and companies like Apple and Google are dominating an industry that had once been practically handed to Microsoft on a silver platter. No one -- either inside or outside of Redmond -- is arguing that change isn't desperately (and quickly) needed, because it simply isn't enough to dominate the desktop anymore.

Intel's 3.2GHz hexacore i7-970 now shipping

Just this once, DigiTimes has turned out to be spot on with its prognostication. The six-core Core i7-970 rumor we heard earlier this month has now transmogrified into a retail product, and just as promised, it brings most of the goodies of the sublime i7-980X at a moderately more affordable $899 price point. Based on the same 32nm Gulftown architecture as its costlier brother, the 970 will run at 3.2GHz by default, though presumably it too will be able to crank up speeds using Intel's Turbo Boost. Aside from that, you get a healthy 12MB of on-chip cache and the standard triple-channel DDR3 memory controller. UK speed freaks can order one up as well now, clearly a tiny bit ahead of Intel itself making things official, so we'd advise checking with your nearest super-CPU purveyors in case they too have received some early units of this multithreaded code cruncher.