Typical price: £109
What is it: Flash-based MP3 & video player with Bluetooth
What we think: Good looking and affordable but seriously hindered by its lack of supported formats
Average user rating
3.0
poor
Average user rating from 1 user
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Samsung YP-P2 user reviews
February 24, 2009
Posted by: wayne beasley
"Don't believe the hype"
What I like:
screen size is good
What I don't like:
screen lags on videos, converting videos is a nightmare, uploading content is crap
Review:
this had so much going for it, on paper.
the screen size is really good and makes a compact yet big enough hand held player. controls are good too with dedicated volume controls.
now the bad. if you only want to play music and can cope with the Emodio software, you'll love the great sound. if you want to watch videos, prepare to be really disappointed. it is TOO HARD to convert them. honest. you can use their conversion software (it's very slow) and end up with needless new file extension SVI with little control over file size or compression. and reconverting from one compressed format to another should ALWAYS be discouraged.
they should support more common formats DIRECTLY. DivX, H264 would let the device shine along with proper drag-and-drop content loading.
looks like they sucked up to Microsoft with WVM and their MediaPlayer software and forgot to see what other options would SUIT THEIR USERS.
such a missed opportunity - and now there are no new software updates as they move on to the P3 player - which seems to copy all the mistakes onto a new machine.
i thought the point of learning from history was to avoid making the same mistake twice... LOL
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