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2.5 stars
"good feature set, but one critical feature doesn't work"
Pros: sound and display are fine, FM auto presets work great
Cons: Nearly all settings are forgotten when unit is turned off
Summary: Just got my YP-U3 in the mail yesterday, and am thinking about sending it back. The most important feature for me in buying this model was the ability to set the music skip interval to longer time chunks. I use my MP3 player to time-shift my favorite public radio programs (recorded off the web) so I can listen to them during my long commute; this involves relatively long tracks--half an hour to an hour, often. Searching through long recordings to get to a certain point in a radio show is painfully slow on most players. The YP-U3 lets the user set the skip interval to 1-minute chunks, which speeds up the process of fast-forwarding quite a bit.
The problem: none of the settings, skip interval included, persists when the unit is turned off. Any setting you change--equalizer, resume, skip interval, etc etc--is forgotten as soon as you power it down. (Only the FM presets persist.) This renders the "Settings" function nearly useless.
I have emailed Samsung about this problem, but am not optimistic. If this is just the way the thing was made, the thing is going back to the store.
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