Philips certainly isn’t being shy this week about taking aim at the PMP and PND markets. Hot on the heels of their announcement of the Philips GoGear Muse MP4 player comes word of the GoGear Connect, an Android 2.1 powered PMP and PND rolled up into one gorgeous device replete with both a touchscreen and, more curiously, a trackball.
This isn’t a smartphone, so don’t expect 3G connectivity here, but Philips is still playing up the GoGear Connect’s online functionality, which will allow it to tether to your computer through Bluetooth or connect to any 802.11n WiFi hotspot in range.
Otherwise, the GoGear Connect will fully support VoIP, and ships with both a speaker and a microphone built-into the device, so you should be able to use this as a Skype phone, or with whatever video chat service you use. Additionally, the GoGear Connect ships with a GPS unit, allowing it to function as a sat-nav handheld.
As for the display, it’s a pretty paltry 3.2-inch affair at 320 x 480 resolution, but it does at least feature haptic feedback for chunkier touchscreen clicks. Other specs include a memory card slot for expandable storage, a rear-facing camera of unknown resolution and internal storage ranging between 8GB and 64GB.
Otherwise, the only thing to note about Philips’ GoGear Connect is the custom UI, which Philips seems to be slapping on all of their Android-powered devices. No specific price or release date is known, but Philips is making vague reference to a Q3 ship date…. at which point, this player will already be old news.
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