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With Apple having the iPod touch, we guess we weren’t surprised that Apple’s competitors, such as Samsung, followed suit with something similar called the Samsung Galaxy Player, essentially a touchscreen media player running on Android sans the phone capabilities. Well it looks like Samsung is looking to introduce an upgrade to the Galaxy Player with the Galaxy Player 2 which was recently spotted in benchmarks by the folks at TechTastic.

Unfortunately if you were hoping for some sort of powerful media player device, perhaps sporting hardware along the lines of the Galaxy S3 or the Galaxy S4, you might be disappointed. It seems that the display is still at a lowly 480×800 and will be powered by a Marvell processor under the hood, although the good news is that the Galaxy Player 2 will come with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean running the show. We guess the good thing about Android media players is that they can be customized much like Android phones, allowing users to create a truly unique looking media player. No word on when the Galaxy Player 2 will be released or announced, but fret not as we’ll keep our eyes peeled for more info.

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Samsung has been working on its NX camera series for years now, with the latest one announced just last month with its NX300 SMART Camera. It once again is expanding its NX family today as Samsung is announcing its NX2000 today.

The NX2000 features a 20.3MP APS-C CMOS Sensor that allows for images taken even in low-light conditions to pop with color and is capable of delivering continuous high-quality images due to its new DRIMe IV engine as it works to reduce noise, improve the overall speed of the camera and help enable superior color reproduction. The NX2000 can take 8fps fast continuous shots and its shutter speed is at an impressively fast 1/4000th of a second.

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If you’ve been torn between Samsung’s NX300 and NX1000 mirrorless cameras, you should know the company has officially split the difference with its new NX2000. While it likely won’t sway NEX-3N lovers away from Sony, the $650 NX2000 is only a Benjamin more than Sammy’s lower-end NX1000 and packs the same 3D-capable DRIMe IV processor and NFC functionality as the pricier NX300. Of course, you still get the 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor seen across the line. The differentiating factor from its siblings is the Galaxy Camera-like 3.7-inch, 1,152k-dot touchscreen (fixed) on the back, rather than the usual assortment of rear buttons. The 100 to 25,600 ISO range and maximum JPG burst rate of 8 fps is just like the 300’s, though this is only capable of recording 1080p video at 60 fps. Unfortunately, the autofocus is only contrast-detection, but Samsung claims that it’s one of the fastest to the draw.

As you’d expect, this shooter features WiFi (single band) for connecting through AllShare or the Smart Camera app, plus there’s a microSD slot for transferring files physically. Sure, it’s not the most exciting update to Samsung’s camera line, but it’s clearly a big leap up from the NX1000 — on paper, anyway. The NX2000 will be available soon in your choice of white, black or pink, and it comes bundled with Adobe Lightroom 4, a 20-50mm lens and a hotshoe-powered flash. Grab more looks in the gallery below and hit the press release after the break for all the technical details.

Edgar Alvarez contributed to this report.

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We’ve all come across decals that one can stick on their MacBook laptops, with some being pretty creative and using the glow from the Apple logo to represent Iron Man’s Arc reactor, or a decal of Snow White taking a bite out of the Apple logo and so on. While those are pretty cool and clever, if you’re looking to take the customization of your MacBook laptop to the next level, the folks at Uncover are offering custom MacBook lids which have been laser cut to take advantage of the fact that there is an entire light panel underneath the lid of your MacBook laptop to come up with some pretty unique and great designs.

One of the examples can be seen above, but if you’d like to see more designs you can head on over to Uncover’s website for the rest. For those interested, you will have to send your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro to the company in order for the laser cutting to take place, and as you might expect, this process/service will not come cheap as Uncover has stated on their FAQ page that prices start from €299 which is around $394 for a custom job. Ouch!

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With the competition between Apple and Samsung being extremely fierce, not just in terms of products, but in the courtrooms as well, we expect that many are wondering just how well the Samsung Galaxy S4 holds up against Apple’s flagship smartphone, the iPhone 5. Given that they both run different operating systems and therefore cater to different types of users and different needs, we guess one way to compare the smartphones would in terms of durability. Is the iPhone 5 more durable than the Samsung Galaxy S4? Well that’s what the folks at insurance firm, SquareTrade, decided to find out.

Basically SquareTrade pitted several devices against each other, namely the iPhone 5 versus the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy S3. The phones were put through several tests, such as being dropped, skidded across a table, and dunked underwater. The tests were designed to roughly simulate the typical accidents that one might encounter in the real life with their smartphones. Either way if you have a couple of minutes to spare and would like to see all three phones being put through their paces, check it out in the video above. Alternatively if you’d like to see which phone might be better for you in terms of hardware, performance, and software, you can check out our reviews of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the iPhone 5 to learn more.

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