Customer Reviews:
 I LOVE IT! August 11, 2008
I love this mp3 player! Its the first thing I pick up in the morning! I love it vs the ipod touch because you can listen to the radio and more and it hooks up with my phone that's like the sweetest thing! I want to give a big hug to all the samsung people who make it so helpful for music heads like me! I love my p2 and thank you Amazon for having it a very very good price! so to all who dont have this mp3 you"re missing the best think playing music right now!
 Good MP3 July 29, 2008
This MP3 player is for those people who do not want to use an IPOD. The Samsung YP-P2 has bluetooth connectivity that is easy to link to. When listening with wired headphones the volume is great, but your bluetooth connection does not give you as big a range for volume control. The bluetooth connection does not allow you to connect a phone and wireless headphones at the same time. Samsung does do firmware updates so hopefully this problem will be resolved in the future. Over all I am very happy with the Samsung YP-P2 MP3 player. It has an FM tuner, bluetooth connectivity, and good battery life.
 Average mp3 player with too much hype July 23, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I anticipated this device arrival for a long time, and now that I have it I am somewhat disappointed.
This review covers 16gb version, and latest European firmware (5.08).
Pros:
- Hard volume and Hold buttons. Invaluable to me at the gym.
- Bluetooth headphone connection. This was the main reason I got the player - as headphone cords always get caught in things. Bluetooth also works fairly well without audio dropouts, though I have not been able to initiate file transfers using my laptop's Broadcom Bluetooth stack (works ok with Toshiba's). If you have Broadcom BT, beware.
- Subway maps (note - I have European firmware, this feature may not be available in US devices). Definitely a helpful feature as it has maps covering all major cities (i.e. London, NY, Chicago)
- Solid sound and video quality (but neither really wow'ed me).
- Handy and intuitive touch interface, though the touch controls are not always precise.
- Great form factor.
- Excellent Radio reception with RDS (I believe RDS is not available in US firmware, but I am not sure - it is definitely there in EU firmware).
- 9-band Graphic Equalizer
Major Cons:
- No gap-less playback. Any serious MP3 player should have this as a feature, considering how easy it is to implement.
- No mp3 file info (bitrate at least???).
- Very limited accessories. I am not obsessed over this - but a decent selection of sports armbands, docking cradles, etc would be nice (oh and the wi-fi cradle that was mentioned all over the net - like on YouTube - is a fake).
- A non-standard USB port on the device. Yet another redundant cable that I need to ensure I don't loose. Ridiculous and inexcusable. Thankfully it has a standard headphone jack (unlike my Sony Walkman cellphone). And yes - I may sync up using Bluetooth instead of USB - but it is VERY slow - only useful for a few tracks. Transmitting a few albums can take a very long time.
- No DSNe enhancements over Bluetooth. I am still holding out hope that this will be remedied, but I somehow doubt it. This makes two big selling points of the device (BT and DSNe) somewhat muted.
- The Emodio software for data sync is a badly programmed joke (though I suppose it being a 'beta' is an excuse). But - at least the player is recognized by Vista just fine so I don't have to use it (except you have to at times - like uploading themes).
- Radio does not work when using BT headphones. I understand the reasons for it, but do not completely accept them. Can't I just plug in regular headphones to act as antenna, while using BT to listen to the radio?
Minor cons:
- Use of bad english grammar (just check out emodio website). This isn't an issue with a tiny company, but for a huge company like Samsung - a worldwide player - it is inexcusable - especially for a top price charged for this device.
- No bookmarking for MP3's - so listening to mp3-based audiobooks is total pain. Bookmarking is however available for videos and text.
- Video conversion is not very good (just try to dump one of TiVo To Go files to your player - good luck). Thankfully this isn't why I bought it. It can be done by the way though you will have to look for alternative software.
- Theme and skins support is very rudimentary and not impressive at all (whole 3 fonts available for selection and no size options, for example).
- Wasted 'Home' screen - it does not have any details on what's playing, BT or battery status. Considering amount of empty space there, this is inexcusable. Only a basic clock is available.
- Support for only wav and mp3 audio formats (no Flac for example).
- No song ranking or tracking how often a song is played which would be quiet useful if I want to hear least played or most often played, etc.
- Five playlists are available for assignment on the fly but there is no way to create more while the player is detached from the PC.
- No support for m3u playlist files.
Useless Features:
- Cellphone bluetooth sync. Well - to me at least. Since I use the device primarily over BT, this function is unnecessary. I suppose for wired headphone users this will be handy.
- Text reader. It seems Samsung put more thought into text reader than they did into MP3 support. This obviously cannot be used for any prolonged reading - maybe for a rare occasion its ok. It definitely works though.
- Cosmos interface. What is the use of showing the menu few buttons at a time - it sure is cool when you just unpack the player - but this gets old very very fast.
So bottom line is that this is an OK player, but it is not a serious contender - with only a few basic features for its primary use (listening to music), and seems like the 'sleek' factor and bluetooth is really the main selling point. It is to me of course - getting rid of the wires at the gym is great - but if you like plenty of control and tweaking, this device may not be for you as it is fairly simplistic.
 BEWARE OF SAMSUNG CUSTOMER SERVICE July 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This device looks ok but I pity anyone who needs to deal with the incompetent, immoral, decietful, scum at samsung customer service. Their obvious policy is to make so many hoops for any claim to jump through that you just give up. BASICALLY, ANY SAMSUNG PRODUCT YOU BUY HAS NO WARRANTY. This is because getting it serviced is nearly impossible and will take MANY PHONE CALLS and MANY HOURS OF WAITING ON HOLD and THEY WILL NOT FOLLOW UP WITH YOU - so you have to call them to find out what is going on. They could not fix or replace my radio 3 mos. ago and promised me a check over 5 weeks ago but still no check. Be warned about this before you buy samsung. There are other posts on amazon regarding this corporate sealing from customers.
Very happy. July 9, 2008
I have had this player since January now. i have absolutely no complaints. it holds all of my music, pictures, video, any text files that i want to view, it has games( which do get a little boring after a while but hey they take the edge of the boredom off), and a bunch of little apps like a calculator and a world clock, there's much more than i want to write. i haven't gotten a chance to use much of the blue tooth functions ( you can pair headphones or you can pair you bluetooth phone with it and make calls with the p2 itself), but i have paired my phone to it and it works great. there are tons of options for music and video playback (more for the music). also there are near constant firmware updates that keep adding more and more functionality. the screen takes some getting used to but it works great after you do
Overall:
A GREAT personal media player that has tons of great functionality. i highly recommend this to anyone.
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