Can the Samsung YP-P2 hold its own against the market-dominating iPods?
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The Samsung YP-P2 has landed, and we have the photos to prove it. With its 3-inch touch screen, and a 480x272 video resolution capable of DVD-quality and 30 frames per second, the Samsung YP-P2 is a tough contender for the holiday's Flash-based PVP battle royale. Obviously, the P2 is aimed at the iPod Touch audience, but with recent video-worthy releases from SanDisk, Creative, and Microsoft--it's still anybody's game.
We'll have a full review done next week. Until then, you can ogle our Samsung YP-P2 photo gallery. The Samsung YP-P2 is available for $199 (4GB) and $249 ($8GB).
The Zune is probably not an iPod-killer. The question is, will the Samsung YP-P2 be a Zune-killer?
(Credit: Samsung)After having a day to reflect on Microsoft's latest Zune offering, I began to think that perhaps the iPod vs. Zune battle is a little too obvious. Whether the iPod's position at the top of the MP3 player food chain is deserved or not, history has shown us that it will likely stay there. The real question is, "As the holidays approach, which MP3 player will come in second place?"
When it comes to interface and killer features, the challenger that Microsoft should really keep an eye on is the yet-to-be-released Samsung YP-P2 I reported on back in August. Although Samsung hasn't released pricing information yet, things could really heat up if the YP-P2 can get close to the $149 and $199 price points of the iPod Nano and Flash-based Zunes. Not only does the YP-P2 offer a 3-inch touch screen and built in Bluetooth, but it also has the advantage of not being Microsoft. Honestly, after Apple's successful "I'm a Mac" smear campaign, it's tough to convince people that Microsoft makes cool gear (unless you've got Halo 3 as bait).
We've been able to dig up two videos on YouTube that demonstrate the interface for both the Zune and Samsung YP-P2. ... Read more
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While Samsung hasn't been overly vocal about its next line of digital audio players, we didn't consider ourselves unrealistic in expecting a superb follow-up to the excellent YP-T9 MP3 player, which scored a smokin' 8.3 in our exhaustive tests.
Our daydreaming apparently was not in vain. The South Korean-based company has pelvic-thrusted the YP-P2 into existence, with a lovely touchscreen, video playback and Bluetooth.
What's particularly surprising about this model is its maximum capacity--8GB. This is interesting because Samsung hasn't followed in the footsteps of Creative's capacity-increased Zen V Plus, which was the first flash music player to break the 8GB barrier. Creative's new model's capacious innards now stand at just over half the size of the smallest hard-drive-based video iPod. Samsung following suit would have been good news for people who like the space of iPods but the speed and performance of flash memory.
Still, we had our hands on a YP-P2 last week and loved the super-crisp 16:9-format screen, easy menus, support for high-quality Windows Media videos and its alleged 35-hour battery life.
The P2 comes in black, white and red, and will be on sale in September. Pricing information has not yet been released but we'll pass it on as soon as we have it. We'll also have a full review for you very, very soon.
(Source: Crave UK)
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