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A Revolution in Media Players: Dual-booting MP5 Players From Ramos and Benss

September 15th, 2011

If you’ve ever thought that the large touchscreens that come with MP5 players should be used for much more than just touch playback of movies and music, and for turning the pages of an occasional e-book, then you’ll be glad to know that the future of MP5 players is quickly catching up to you. There is a revolution brewing in the media player world that is merging the MP5 player and Android tablet markets closer together. This revolution is the inclusion of two operating systems in one MP5 player device, allowing users to chose to boot either to the standard OS of a high-definition media player or into a version of Google’s Android OS.

Two leading MP5 manufacturers have been on the forefront of this new generation of MP5 players with dual boot capabilites: Ramos and Benss. Both companies have had extensive experience in the design and development of media players and are two of the most well-established media player manufacturers in the Asia-Pacific region, with avid followers within the region and around the world.

While the development of MP5 players in this direction comes with little surprise, the quality of these first generation of dual-booting MP5 players is really a thing to behold. Between the two manufacturers, 5 new dual-booting MP5 players are currently out on the market.

Ramos is the clear winner when it comes to the number of models it has released that are capable of dual-booting between the HD media player operating system and Android OS 2.1 Eclair. Ramos’ selection of dual-booting MP5 players includes the T8Pro, the T11Pro, the V70Pro, and the T20. The Ramos line feature MP5 players of varying specifications and prices. When purchasing the dual-booting Mp5 players from online wholesalers, Ramos starts with the 4.3-inch T8Pro pricing in at $65.65 at the lowest end of the line and finishes off at $130.09 for the 7-inch T20 at the highest end of the food chain.

Benss has decided to take a more conservative path by releasing only one dual-booting MP5 player, however, it has shown its desire to be competitive in this new area by releasing its modestly priced $49.25 B3 with Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread instead.

All 5 Mp5 players share several things in common. First, instead of having the Android OS installed directly onto the hardware, booting into the Android operating system is instead accomplished by inserting an SD card loaded with Android into the SD card slot and selecting the OS of choice at the start-up screen.

Second, although capable of booting into Android OS, none of the 5 MP5 players are tablets in the true sense of the term. All 5 dual-booting MP5 players do not have WiFi capabilities, so installing any software is once again done via the SD card slot and some basic rooting. All 5 MP5 players also do not have the sensors that come standard with almost any tablet at the moment, like an accelerometer or G-sensor, so games and applications requiring this won’t work as expected.

Ramos had released a more advanced version of the T11, called the T11AD, with WiFi capabilities, an accelerometer, G-sensor, compass, and other more tablet-like hardware specifications, however, this is dual-booting MP5 player is more correctly classified as a tablet rather than a true MP5 player by both users, critics, and Ramos themselves alike.

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The Best in Travel Entertainment: MP5 Players

May 26th, 2011

I love to travel, and in my mind I often ask myself, “Who doesn’t?” There’s just something so fascinating and exciting about discovering new places and seeing new things. When you travel a lot, even if you’ve been to a certain place many times before, you often find that you discover something new with every visit. Of course, I do maintain that there is a difference between a traveler and a tourist – travelers engage and involve themselves in the local culture, but tourists see everything from a distance even if they are right there in the midst of the local culture.

There is no doubt that travelers simply enjoy traveling, but even for seasoned and experienced travelers like me, there are just times when the journey can get a little boring. Sometimes you become so overwhelmed, or underwhelmed, by where you are, what you’re doing, and what you’re experiencing that you simply just want to withdraw yourself from everything. It’s at times like these that you wish you were at home in front your 32″ television watching your favorite movie.

This is where the value of bringing some sort of travel entertainment becomes evident. Watching a movie, playing a video game, listening to some music, or connecting to the internet are all great ways of withdrawing yourself from the journey and immersing yourself in another world altogether.

My personal favorite in travel entertainment is the MP5 Player. They’re small enough to bring anywhere. They hold enough movies to keep you entertained for the most part of a day (if you’ll really be spending that much more time on it than actually travelling). They also play music files. Many of them have built in games. And they read e-books, too. And still others are built with the ability to connect to the internet.

It’s really a total package, and the only thing that’s really keeping it from becoming a phone is the ability to make and answer calls, and send and receive messages. Well, you ask, “Why don’t you just get a good a good phone that can do all that?” Simple! MP5 players are usually much cheaper than a phone with the same abilities it sports. And well, I do own a phone that’s capable of all of these things, but when you’re travelling, you just don’t know what you might come up against.

Truth be told, I don’t really rely on cell phones once I get to wherever I’d planned to go to in the first place for several reasons. First, it just gets in the way – people will call and text while I’m trying to talk to the locals. Second, there’s no way I’m risking my $600 cell phone out on the tightly packed streets of Kolkata – with my MP5 player, I don’t have to worry too much about the cost (I even gave one away while in Thailand).

Of course, even tourists would benefit from a good MP5 player. It might just be me, but in-flight movies never seem to appeal to me. Of course, I can easily find other things to do, but not every tourist has the skill set of a traveler.

The best MP5 players are made in China where they were also first developed. If you’re a traveler you can always drop by China and get one for yourself at a wholesale electronics store there, but if you’re the everyday, run-of-the-mill tourist (now wanting to turn traveler?) then you’d best get them from a respectable China wholesale website.