Teclast to debut Android-powered PMP? Wake us up when it arrives
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Sep 23rd 2009 10:29AM
posted Sep 23rd 2009 10:29AM
Oh, Android -- it's obvious that someone out there wants to see it on tablets, netbooks, toaster ovens -- anything, really, that sports a processor and a display (OK, never mind the toaster oven). Now Teclast, fine purveyors of media players with such exciting features as "buttons" and "batteries," just might have a PMP in the works that sports the buzzworthy open source OS. The T58, whose existence is being reported by imp3.net, is said to sport the RK2808 chipset (with dual-core ARM9 RISC processor), 1280 x 720 touchscreen, WiFi, GPS, and support for all of your favorite media types (that is, if H.264, RMVB, MPEG-4, AVS, and WMV9 files constitute your favorite media types). Can the company manage to not bore us to tears with its next device? And will it have to install a cellphone OS on a media player to do so? Only time will tell.
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Somehow, I get the feeling that if this thing were running the iPhone OS, it would magically cease to be 'boring'. Just a hunch.
I just think it's funny that the Android screen grab has the MyFaves icon in the top left and the 3G icon in the top right bar.
720P on an ARM9
I call fake
720p is possible the beagleboard Arm platform which uses an Arm CPU and PowerVR GPU offers 720p playback though of course the dedicated video logic on the GPU could be doing the decoding.
Whats actually better is that you can use an OpenGL interface and have a pretty nice UI for such players running on Android a Japanese company is working on actually building and selling a media streamer using Android as the underlying OS.
@ZeroK2
Most media streamers use some sort of linux anyway which is open source so wots the big deal about this?
IF this was running iPhone OS, it wouldn't support so many codecs. And they'd release support little by little for $10 a codec. Just a hunch.
IF YOU were running Android, you would sport a functioning sarcasm detector. Just a hunch.
They'd better write a substantially better music player, then. I have an Android phone, and I use the media player.. But it's pretty crummy, really. Nowhere near the features of the iPhone music player.
Too right, and headphone button latency is DREADFUL.
"(OK, never mind the toaster oven)"
wait wait, dont say that, I would love to see this on a toaster oven... mmmmm.... good toast
Yeah, imagine the possibilities. Not only can you watch videos/listen to music etc. while in the kitchen, you can also browse the web and chose what pattern you want to have printed onto the toast. Perhaps some news articles, so you can read and then eat it, thus not wasting paper?
Wow, the PMP also somehow has a voicemail, lol
Dual core arm and a 720p screen.....how in the world is this boring? Is there another HD resolution Touchscreen around?
Calling Android a "cellphone OS" is kind of like calling Windows a "laptop OS". The software doesn't know what you call the hardware.
Eh, sort of. Android was originally designed to be a multipurpose mobile OS, but by the time it hit the market that wasn't quite the case anymore. Version 1.0 was rushed to market and a lot of concessions were made about the scalability and adaptability of the OS in favor of getting it to run perfectly on the G1 in time.
Android 1.5 and 1.6 have made some good progress in undoing that, but it's still got a little ways to go by the time it's truly as adaptable as it was originally envisioned to be. As is, Android requires a fair amount of custom tweaking to get it up to speed as a production product on anything but a cell phone.
Also, while this isn't actually the fault of the OS, it stands to be mentioned that all of the applications currently available on Android were written to target a phone. Many of those are likely to be written in such a way that they'll run anywhere, but I'm sure there's a fair amount of lazy coding going on where apps won't know what to do when they're missing a data connection, or they won't know that they're supposed to turn off their SMS options when there's no phone hardware present. Obviously, that will work itself out once some non-phones hit the market, but there will likely be some amount of transition time for early adopters when some non-phones finally start hitting the market.
ignore that apple fan boy Joseph L. Flatley
fridges and chairs runnin' android expected anytime soon? Of corse, thats better than homemade google translated chinese os,but still...
oh cr@p, not another rockchip pos. it cant even properly sort mp3s in alphabetical order and a proper album wont even allow smooth scrolling. at least not on my teclast M-55 which came out at the beginning of the year and its long discontinued now. dont expect support for more than a month or two from teclast china. my money is now on zune HD if it ever decides to support divx/xvid, or the Zii Egg.