Samsung Q2 (8GB)
As shown: $109.99
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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.
Hide ReviewSince 2003, Jasmine France has worked at CNET covering everything from scanners to keyboards to GPS devices to MP3 players. She currently cohosts the Crave podcast and spends the majority of her time testing headphones, music software, and mobile apps.
User Reviews
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"Samsung YP-Q2 YEPP Diamond Sound" By LucasGrey
Pros: The best Samsung audio quality with DnSe 3.0 SNR 90db e OFR 40Hz-20KHz offers a sound better than P3( YP-P3 SNR 89db e OFR 20Hz-20KHz)
The battery life is about 40hr(50Hr declared)
Cons: Soft Touch controls are imprecise
Video format support limited only to WMV and MP4 SVI
Summary: YP-Q2 looks nice and offers many useful functions as a quality voice recorder and RDS radio, the video playbak is appreciable but unfortunately the player support only 2 video codec (WMV and MP4 h263). The battery life isn't 50hr as declared but reaches 40hr
YP-Q2 doesn't offer too ... Expand full review
"Battery life on this review is very inaccurate.." By Karlfischer
Pros: -Decent battery life (at least 20 hours for audio, if not much more)
-No extra formats needed (unlike Sony or Apple).
-Nice features such as voice record, user button, games, text viewer, and data casts.
-Audio and video quality good for the price.
Cons: -Collects fingerprints very easily
-US users cannot access the store!
-Confusing how to use playlists.
-Text viewer could be a lot more convenient.
-Data casts do not sort by date added, but by name.
Summary: I very happy with this media player, and am quite surprised at some of the things this review says. First of all, the battery life is actually quite good, and they probably got the 7 hr figure because they did not set the screen to turn off. The Q2 lasts ... Expand full review
Specifications
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- Digital Storage / Capacity: 8 GB
- Flash memory installed: 8 GB
- Digital player supported digital audio standards: MP3 WMA FLAC Ogg Vorbis
