Many people use their smartphones to play music, view videos and show off snaps on the go, though it seems that there is still a lot of room in the market for fanatical media players. The use of Android smartphones and tablets are  increasing by leaps and bounds so Android has also arrived for a range of other gadgets like point to sale terminals, media players, Polaroid SC 1630 digital camera as well as Android HD webcam. Philips has released a new media player - GoGear Connect 3.5, a Gingerbread-running media player at CES 2012. As its name suggests, this media player has a 3.5-inch touchscreen and similar to Sony’s new Walkman, it offers consumers the full Android 2.3 Gingerbread experience. GoGear Connect 3.5 is the newest Wi-Fi-enabled touch screen MP4 player from Philips. The device comes with a number of improvements and iterations from their previous versions.

There have been several additions to functionalities of this Connect 3.5 phone rather than improving with many hardware specs. The company’s press release does not provide much detail about the GoGear’s hardware, selecting instead to spotlight on its software. Besides 720p high-definition video playback, the media player even features Philips’ FullSound and Surround for Movies technologies, both of which assure to deliver a “superior” sound experience. When coming to the screen size of it, Connect 3 had a 3.2 inches display screen and consumers are fond of the big screen display as marked in different newly launched smartphones, so Connect 3.5 comes with 3.5 inches display screen. It will ship with the official Skype app pre-installed, and provides access to more than 400,000 third-party applications through the Android Market. Also you can make calls with VoIP clients such as Skype. From this April, Philips GoGear Connect 3.5 will be available to purchase with 8GB for $169.99 and 16GB for $199.99.

The users can make use of what Android is well-known for aside from normal music and video playback with this media player. If you have Android on your phone, then you acquire free Google services such as Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail, Picasa, Google Talk, Google Music, Google Search, Google Calendar, etc. Through a common place for all, you would be able to browse the Android Market to update, download, install, uninstall, use widget and much more. For this purpose, Android platform is very popular and being open source, you can modify the phone as per your necessities providing you the openness to your own customization.

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