Samsung YP-T9 (4GB, black)

Pros: Great screen, recordable FM Tuner, WMA and MP3 support, Video playback, slim, user friendly interface

Cons: proprietary video format and docking cable and no WiFi!

Summary: I have very frew complaints about this player. It has excellent audio and video playback quality, button placement is not a hassle at all and the interface is very friendly. One complaint is that to load video contect to the player, you have to use the software that came with it so it can convert it to the correct format. During playback, the quality is great (no skipping frames or lag or anything like that) and the size of the video file is relatively small (it's actually been cutting my video file size in half). So I can't complain too much, but it does take a little bit longer to transfer larger video files to the player than I'd like.

Audio playback is everything you've come to expect from a flash player like this. Customizable EQ during playback is very handy. My only complaint about it's audio playback actually doesn't have much to do with audio at all. It doesn't allow for a slide show to play as the music background. You can set a picture to be the backdrop for your audio 'Now Playing' screen, but the one you pick is the one for every song, artist, etc. I'd like to see in the future the ability to tag a picture to a certain artist or genre, and possible even a slide show instead of one picture. I mean the picture I might want as a background when I listen to Beethoven might not be the same as what I want when I listen to U2 (not that I listen to either, just making a point). But as far as I know, there is not a flash player out there that does have this function. And it's not even that big of a deal anyways because at least you can see the album art during playback.

Flash games. Yes there are flash games on here, only two, but you can add more. This isn't really something I would take too much advantage of, but if they took this feature out, I'd probably complain (Hey, at least I'm honest about it).

My only thing with the docking cable, is that it limits the ability to accesorize with the player. iPods have done well with theirs, but that iPod crap is little more than a bandwagon of fad followers. Ultimately, I'd like to see some way of docking this to a car stereo so that information could be displayed on the car stereo.

No WiFi. Microsoft got it all wrong with the WiFi in the Zune. I could really give less of a [expletive deleted] about 'the social' and sharing my music with anyone. What would have been the right way to do it is docking via WiFi (building is sharing features before docking features just sounds backwards to me). Maybe then you could even get a widget or two on there eh? It sounds good to me at least. WiFi being a newish thing for MP3 players, I'm not surprised and wasn't really looking for it in anything, but it would have been a nice feature.

I do fully recoment this to anyone looking for a decent flash player. The price isn't too bad and you definately get your money's worth.