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Samsung Q2 (16GB)
As shown: $149.99
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CNET Editors' Review
CNET Editors' Rating
- Reviewed by: Jasmine France
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The good: The Samsung Q2 is incredibly inexpensive and offers solid sound quality, a nice screen, and a decent array of features, such as an FM tuner, voice recording, and games.
The bad: The Samsung Q2 has a cheap, plastic design that's generic looking. There's no dedicated volume, and the touch-pad interface is not ideal for all users. The battery life for audio is appalling.
The bottom line: The Samsung Q2 offers excellent bang for your buck thanks to its rock-bottom pricing, plentiful features, lovely screen, and solid sound quality.
Editors' note, updated July 10, 2009: Corrected performance rating.
The MP3 player market has done nothing but benefit from the decline in flash memory prices. One of many examples can be found in the Samsung Q2, a plain-looking device that comes in 8GB and 16GB versions for just $99.99 and $129.99, respectively. The Q2 is priced well below its competitors--particularly the 16GB version--and it delivers an excellent value, thanks to good sound quality and a nice array of handy features. However, we're not taken with the player's design.
On first glance, the ... Expand full review
Editors' note, updated July 10, 2009: Corrected performance rating.
The MP3 player market has done nothing but benefit from the decline in flash memory prices. One of many examples can be found in the Samsung Q2, a plain-looking device that comes in 8GB and 16GB versions for just $99.99 and $129.99, respectively. The Q2 is priced well below its competitors--particularly the 16GB version--and it delivers an excellent value, thanks to good sound quality and a nice array of handy features. However, we're not taken with the player's design.
On first glance, the Samsung Q2 appears pretty sleek, but up close, the plastic design leaves a little to be desired. The light-up touch-pad controls on the face and chrome-like border wrapping around the edges do add hints of style, but overall, the unit has a rather generic look that doesn't seem particularly innovative at this stage in the game. Of course, it's a budget player, so we can't expect the Q2 to have the slick, weighty feel of the P3. It's certainly a reasonably compact player, measuring 3.9 inches by 1.9 inches by 0.4 inch, and the display is relatively large at 2.4-inches diagonal.
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"Awesome MP3!" By bobzed
Pros: Perfect amount of memory, excellent sound quality, very good video quality, easy to learn, portable, long battery life.
Cons: ummm the foam falls off of the earbuds...??
Summary: I had to work for a long time to earn the money for this and I am very satisfied with it. I would definitely buy it again and it is a great product.
"Pass on it" By powerbomb1411
Pros: Wish I could think of some.
Cons: Figuring out how to use it.
Summary: I just got this in the mail today. My last MP3 player was just getting too old (A few years at the very least) and wasn't working well.
Now the feature I used most on my old MP3 player was the playlist and organizing the songs how I wanted ... Expand full review
Specifications
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- Digital Storage / Capacity: 16 GB
- Flash memory installed: 16 GB
- Digital player supported digital audio standards: MP3 WMA FLAC Ogg Vorbis
