Hello everyone... the last month has been full of surprises with the newest computing portable devices.
Of course the most obvious and famous one is the iPod Touch 4. It comes with many features of the iPhone 4 making it, how Steve Jobs said it, "an iPhone without a phone". It comes with a "retina display" resolution of 960x60 pixels, a capacitive touch screen, Facetime, HD video camera, front and back cameras, 256MB of RAM, an A4 CPU with speed of 1GHz, and some other things like a gyroscope. Prices are $229 for the 8GB version, $299 for the 32GB version, and $399 for the 64GB version. Or at least those are the official prices, of course you can get them cheaper on Amazon, here's the link: Apple iPod touch 32 GB (4th Generation) It has already been jailbroken with the limera1n and the greenpois0n tools.
The next set of devices were those released by Archos. Archos released the pocketables Archos 28, Archos 32
, and Archos 43. All of these devices come with media playback capabilities and internet cabilities. The cheapest one, the Archos 28, is as cheap as $99. The Archos 43 is the perfect competitor for the iPod Touch 4 as it also features an HD video camera, a high resolution resistive touch screen of 854x480, a G-sensor, 256MB of RAM, and a 1GHz CPU. Also, for $199 the 16GB version is even cheaper than the 8GB version iPod Touch. Archos also released some bigger devices for competing with devices like the iPad, those are the Archos 70 and the Archos 101. All of these devices use the Android OS.
The chinese gadgets haven't stayed behind. Smart Devices released the SmartQ V3. It's pretty much the same as the SmartQ V5 but without bluetooth and without Windows CE. Those removals made it possible to come at a great price of $109. It comes with Linux and Android and features an SD memory card reader, an HDMI output, a high resolution resistive touch screen of 800x480, 256 MB of RAM, and a 600 MHz CPU.
As for other iPad competitors, RIM introduced the new Blackberry PlayBook.
I'm pretty sure I'll be getting the iPod Touch now that my first generation broke. But still those cheap prices and good specs of the other devices make me doubt it. What do you think of these devices?