Customer Reviews:
 Greeat little IPOD alternative December 6, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have had this MP3 player for about a month now and I can honestly say it is the best MP3 player I have owned. In the past, I have owned several MP3 players including various IPOD's and a Gigabeat. This device, so far, has lived up to the marketing. The music sounds great, the blueooth connection for headphones works great, and the resolution of the screen is fantastic. I use RealPlayer to transfer music and have had no problems. ALL my music is transferable unlike the IPOD. The battery life is exceptional; I have gone days without recharging while using almost every day.
There are only two issues that I have with the device and they are minor. First, it takes a while to get used to the touch screen. At times it can be sensitive and if you have large fingers, you might find it difficult to navigate through some of the screens. Once you get used to the sensitivitiy though, you will have no problems. Since it is a touch screen, I find myself cleaning the panel more frequently due to finger smudges. That is the only other issue I really have.
Overall, I am extremely happy and think this is a better device than any current IPOD. I doesn't have a chance against the IPOD due the heavy marketing and history the IPOD has, but if you want an alternative, there is no better choice.
 Does what I bought it for.... December 6, 2007
Not bad...a full featured player, easy to work controls, great screen,
and good sound. Bluetooth works well with motorola headsets we have.
Also works well with the sync system in my new car.
 Not so Impressive November 19, 2007
10 out of 30 found this review helpful
There are lot of 8GIG FLASH MP3 players on the market (Sony, ZUNE, iRiver to name a few). I bought this one because it was locally available and it is UMS (like iRiver CLIX). I wasn't impressed with the sound quality (compared side by side with my iRiver H320) and the touch screen controls are very difficult to handle (for me), if you have chunky fingers. In the store I had a chance to play with an iPOD TOUCH, iPod has larger touch area and easier to controll but Samsung is smaller and nicer. I expected a bit more for $249. I will go back to tactile keypad. This is just my opinion I see other users like it very much.
Great in first day- one real problem November 14, 2007
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Sleek and lovely... pairs with my cellphone and headset (ht820) all together well.. downside- can't use fm radio while using bluetooth for audio...
very slick- and the included software, while unusual, is good.. I do wish I could arrange/check off multiple files including audio and video to put on the device and when done, then process the conversions....
while playing audio, there are multiple graphical skin displays to choose, (as well as album art & detailed track info)
the equalizer is the only one that is reactive to the music.. the rest appear to be looping graphics..
Overall good player November 13, 2007
54 out of 56 found this review helpful
Aesthetically, this is a really nice product from Samsung. The player is quite sleek, with nice rounded edges, a decent weight, and sharp piano black gloss finish. The sound quality is superb. I didn't get the same battery life the manufacturer did (they rate 30 hours, I probably average 20), but I would bet that's because I use the touchscreen interface more than their battery testers did.
As for the touchscreen, I have to admit it's pretty nice. I prefer tactile use, so I'm more of a fan of buttons than touchscreens, but Samsung has done a nice job executing this one. There are a couple of odd quirks to the touchscreen. For example, when you "swipe" the touchscreen to advance you have to swipe from right to left, which seems counterintuitive since you are advancing the progress bar from left to right. Obviously, the same is true of swiping to back up, where you swipe from left to right, even though you're going back on the progress bar.
Also, in the default menu setting, you make circular gestures on the touchscreen to advance through the menu. Neat? yes. Functional? not really. The biggest problem I had with this is that my thumb kept obscuring the icons as they moved into view. Ultimately, I found this too annoying and I disabled it in favor of a regular grid menu. Not as cool to show your friends, but much more functional.
The audio player functions are top notch. As a caveat to this, I will say that I could not get this to sync with Winamp 5.5. My Winamp crashed every time I loaded it when the P2 was plugged in. Instead, I did my syncing through Windows Media Player, and it worked fine. It synced playlists perfectly, and did a great job recognizing albums when I copied them directly like a mass storage device. The on-board player functions include a customizable EQ with quite a few presets and a clarity adjuster. There are preset visualizations including a couple of light shows (that do not track the music), album art, track info, and a spectrum analyzer.
The video player is pretty good, but I don't really like watching video on such a small screen anyway. I'm not a big fan of the fact that you have to convert through Samsung's software to get it to run, but I guess that's the case with most MP3/video players. The widescreen playback is properly formated. FM reception is satisfactory. Not sure how the eReader works since I don't have any ebooks for it, but you can see test screens of it.
This is, overall, a good MP3 player, even if it is a bit pricey. It is only $50 cheaper than the iTouch, but it also brings in an FM radio tuner and bluetooth support for up to two bluetooth devices--including a pass-thru for your cellphone to a set of bluetooth stereo headphones like the non-US release Samsung T9. Bluetooth is a great feature if you've got bluetooth headsets, speakers, or car radio. So you're getting more features than the iTouch offers. A major downside for me is the fact that it is primarily touchscreen-only (there are hard buttons on the side: on the left a lock button and a play/pause/power button; on the right, two volume buttons). Since I tend to like to keep my mp3 in my pocket, I prefer to have tactile skip buttons as well.
Samsung has made some great strides with their feature packed MP3 players. And while this one was almost perfect for me, it fell short of the mark only in the somewhat high price tag and the lack of hard skip buttons. I give them kudos, however, for having hard play/pause/power and volume buttons (FYI, play/pause and volume can also be controlled via the touchscreen).
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