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"AWESOME PLAYER overall!" on by radioman 3
Pros: Navigation & tactile feel, screen, size, Sound
Cons: FM radio is average
Summary: This player is simply AMAZING.I've had a ton of MP3 players..the Nano..the Cowon U3, The Sony Flash player, Iriver and tried the Creative Zen plus. Wow..overall this Samsung is just in a different league. I wanted to step up to a 4gig flash..so first because of reviews I tried the Creative Zen plus. I had read how it feels toy like..in a good way? NO WAY. It feels like a cheap slippery toy. The buttons were uncomfortable..the screen in any kind of sunlight looked dim..and it barely got loud enough.Out of desperation I returned the Creative player..picked up the T9 Samsung..fell in love (**). I was expecting to NOT like it. I figured since Samsung seems to put out a player it seems every 90 days this player..well might be junk. WRONG..It has a feel and look of superior qulity to it. The screen looks awesome at night, day,and in bright sunshine. It FEELS comfortable..almost scary comfortable to navigate. Sounds excellent..has a NINE band EQ that really works adding NO distortion unlike the Ipod's eq. I had a Cowon U3 I just sold. Cowon is noted 4 it's sound..and abilty to play LOUD. This Samsung plays louder staying clean..and well I'm just sort of blown away by this little guy. If CNET or whoever dares to rate the Creative Zen plus higher than the T9 It's time to leave the planet. I hear in Asia this player features bluetooth. Well too bad it doesn't have bluetooth BUT there's no reason to knock this player because it has no bluetooth yet. This Samsung is in another class high above the plastic Creative..and the U3 who's screen u need a microscope to see.
Only the FM radio is just OK..works fine..but no better or worse than other current mp3 players. I think anyone why tries this player will really enjoy it! -
"Looks like Porsche / Performs like a Ford" on by tkephart
Pros: LCD, Light Weight, Built in Tuner, Sound
Cons: No Gapless Playback, Button Location, Functionality
Summary: After purchasing the Samsung YP-T9 I was pretty excited to see what it could do. I did my research and thought I was buying the right mp3 player, that was yesterday. Today I am returning the Samsung YP-T9. Yes the Samsung has a flashy lcd and built in FM tuner, but I ask this question, is it worth sacrificing gapless playback and functionality? I say NO. It takes the Samsung a long time to turn on and a LONG time to flip between tracks (gapless playback). Say you want to play a specific song from a list of say 900 songs, well good luck finding it on the Samsung. Just try scrolling down a track listing to find a song that starts with an "S" and you will find out what Im talking about. My wife has a Nano and although it does not have all the features of the Samsung, its software and processor blow away the Samsung. I dont know about you, buy I will sacrifice the FM tuner and flashy equilizer for functionality and speed any day of the week. The Samsung has potential, but if it want to compete with other mp3 players, it needs better software.
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"Impressively little size and quality device does most of jobs But don't get it till you get bluetoot" on by emini21
Pros: Very sleek design, Amazing sound quality for portable device. Best all-around player ever.
Cons: Slow processer,
Summary: I really like this mp3 player. Simply it has a lot of wow factors. It is very sleek design can appeal most of people. It is tinier than Nano but little bit ticker but the screen is really nice and the movie is pretty much ¡°Watchable¡± especially with some comedy TV shows. Only downsize of video playing is that it needs to use Samsung software to convert movie files for the right format. Which is not too bad as it is very simple to use and converting doesn't take too much time but would be nicer if the software is more versatile.
As the best all-around player, it does most of things like FM radio, Voice Recording, Text viewer, even fun games. Best of all I love the navigation style. Very simple and user friendly but you can¡¯t navigate songs faster than Ipod though.
I am using YP-T9B which is Bluetooth version. Actually this feature is very useful. You can move around with only the Bluetooth headset in your house. It covers pretty much wide range. Of course you have to buy the headset separately but it is worth it. You can take this T9 to Gym with your friend and let your friend to listen to the Bluetooth headset while you are using ear phone. You can share the music with your friend which is very cool. Somehow Bluetooth feature doesn't work when you watch videos. I guess the synchronization won't work well for the movies as the music on the headset and the earphone doesn't sync either. I guess this Bluetooth function is not quite perfect yet still very useful and cool for early adapters.
I really love this player. Highly recommend but if you like the Bluetooth feature, please wait little longer. -
"Great little player with fantastic sound and looks to match" on by chef clang
Pros: Sound quality, size, ability to use Windows Media Player, battery life, ease of use.
Cons: Slow to start up
Summary: I have had terrible luck with the iPod Shuffle - 3 of them had to go back and be replaced under warranty, so when the 4th came I gave it to my son and bought the Samsung.
This is a beautiful little player, very tactile and sleek and easy to use. The buttons on the side are a little bit fiddly, but this is a tiny player after all and you get used to them soon enough. Navigation is a breeze and music is selected by artist, album, tracks, genres or playlists.
A problem occurred on the third day with the player hanging and I thought 'here we go again'. After calling Samsung, who were very helpful, I reset it, removed their software and use Windows Media Player, and so far all is fine and dandy. I also really like the fact that I don't have to use a bespoke software for loading music onto the device.
The sound quality is fantastic, and there are a load of eq options but I find 'normal' sounds the best to me.
The radio works great, but I don't have reason to use it. Battery life has also been impressive so far.
I haven't tried storing pictures on the Samsung so I cannot comment on that feature.
One small beef could be the time it takes for the player to start up even when it has just been switched off, which is not instanteneous like an iPod.
Overall I love this device, it is a joy to use, sounds great and you can use it straight out of the box with Media Player. -
"All around great player, some room for improvement" on by iamfaker
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.Updated
Though they are barely noticable, this thing does sport very small rubber feat that keep the player from sliding around anywhere and also keeps the smooth and shiny back scratch free when places on rougher surfaces.
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