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User Submitted Samsung T10 4 GB Slim Portable Media Player with Bluetooth (Black) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-05-12 Very capable for the price. A small unit that does many cool things. I sometimes use it to talk on the cell with the bluetooth link. I also listen to a lot of radio. Sometimes it has troble picking up some stations. The built in mic is cool, can record reminders. The screen is very sharp, but almost impossible to see outside on a sunny day. The seven light up touch buttons are very cool, they become invisible when not used. However, there is no fast way to scroll through a long list of things. Battery lasts pretty long, if the screen is not used. The software is simple and capable. Songs and videos are easily transferred to the player. All around very capable and so far reliable player that is cheaper than most others and comes from a reputable company. Date: 2008-05-09 NO Bluetooth with FM Radio Zero stars for Bluetooth with FM Radio. They are not compatible with this unit, and it even displays a message that tells you so. However neither Samsung nor Amazon give any hint of this deficiency until after you open the packaging. It uses the headset cables as the FM antenna, and the headset jack disables Bluetooth. I did not investigate operability with AM because I am not interested in it. My only reason for buying the unit was to lose the headset cord while listening to FM. It appeared a credible product for other purposes, so I scored it with two stars. Amazon got it back. Date: 2008-04-26 Not as pleased as I had hoped I purchased the T10 as my first Media player and was less than pleased. I have 2 computers at home and only one of them recognized the player after the software was installed. After downloading a few songs and using the sync function my Windows Media player stopped working on my computer. I then switched to Rhapsody to download music and as soon I used the sync function again, the Rhapsody software no longer worked. I am not computer savvy and this could be a Windows Vista problem. However, after about 3 months use the T10 no longer works, when you turn it on it will stay on for about 15 seconds then the screen goes to static and the T10 no longer responds. You can press the tiny reset button but the same problem continues. I guess I will now look at another brand Date: 2008-04-25 great player, with some reservations After my Sansa e260 started malfunctioning right at the tail end of its warranty coverage (a tale of woe by itself,) I was confronted, however briefly, by the terrifying specter of having no digital music player. Unwilling to pay the "Apple tax" on their overpriced players, I bought this one instead. Samsung, who are leaders in the manufacture of flat-panel displays, also makes very good small devices like the T10. Now, having checked out the equivalent Apple players, I reached the conclusion that this one is qualitively equivalent to Apple's stuff and actually superior in sound quality. It also has a pretty decent FM radio that can automatically assign presets, and of course a voice recorder, which is not as easy to use as the Sansa players, but will do in a pinch. The touch controls can be a little fickle, that is balanced by the advantage of not having a protruding scroll wheel, like on the Sandisk players, which eliminates a major point of mechanical failure. The user interface is clear and easy to understand, but not as elegant or responsive as the Apple players--with the T10, there is no whizzing effortlessly and intuitively through hundreds of tracks to the exact song you want to hear. Nevertheless, I consider the overall value to be worth having an inferior interface. Firmware updates, which should add some functionality in the coming months, are downloaded automatically through the Samsung Media Studio software when the device is attached to the computer. Which brings up another point--the Samsung Media Studio software. It isn't very good at all. Not only is it a huge resource-hog compared to the svelte Winamp and Windows Media Player, it also presents your music collection (generally located in the "My Music" folder if you're like most people) as a huge, chaotic mishmash. Mind you, Winamp isn't perfect, but it does do a fairly good job of allowing one to navigate through one's list of artists, songs, and albums. With Winamp, if you want to drag-and-drop a certain album from your computer to the player, you can. But, if you're relying on the Samsung software to do this operation, it appears, thus far, that you must move albums track-by-track. Since I generally just treat music players like generic removable storage instead of relying upon media software to move files around, it's not that big a deal that Samsung's software is junk. Or, at least it *shouldn't* be. Here's where Samsung kind of dropped the ball: you need the damned software in order to do firmware updates, because, at least in my experience, you can't update the firmware manually. I really tried, too, following the manual firmware update instructions to the letter, but the new firmware didn't "take" on the player. So, if I can't do it, there are a lot of less-technical people who will also be relying upon the dreadful Samsung Media Studio software to do it for them, probably trying to use it to move files from their computer to the player, and hating every minute of it. Therefore, Samsung would do well to fix that software as fast as they can, especially if they intend to go toe-to-toe with Apple and Microsoft; their respective media software, iTunes and Windows Media Player, are stable and easy to use. In the meantime, people can just deal with having the Samsung junk installed on their machines for the firmware update, and employ superior pre-existing means to keep their T10's fed with music. That's it for the bad stuff. Other than the bad software, this is a really neat device that easily rivals the best players out there in this price range. Oh yeah, one more thing--it's got Bluetooth, so wired headphones are optional. **EDIT** Three months have passed since I posted this review, and the headphone jack has failed. I haven't decided whether or not to send it to their warranty repair shop or to attempt to use the device with Bluetooth headphones instead. I am leaning towards the latter, given the abysmal reputation this company seems to have with customer service, which is another fact I learned after purchasing this (Ripoffreport.com has the scoop if you're curious.) **EDIT #2** I bought a Motorola Bluetooth headset that works perfectly with the player. Date: 2008-04-19 Overall pleased with the player I purchased this player almost three months ago and I have to say I am pleased. This is the first MP3 player I've ever owned, but I did my research first. Pros: Fast transfer speed Nice, easy to navigate interface. Cute too! Good sound Small, lightweight Durable Good battery life (18 hours per charge on average. Music only, no movies) Movie playback is excellent Bluetooth (though I haven't used it, nor do I really plan to) Cons The software that comes with it is ungooderest! (bad) Little bit glitchy with Winamp, especially since Windows MP updated to version 11 Won't let me delete the built in Playlists (Playlist 1, Playlist 2, etc.) No designated volume button - up and down on the touch keys won't work in menus My biggest issue is that the Samsung software is clunky at best. The T10 gets goofy with Winamp at times, but seems to work OK with Windows Media Player. Unfortunately, I hate WMP and all that auto sync stuff. I'm a hands-on control freak and I didn't like it. The volume button issue isn't that big of a deal. It really hasn't bothered me, but it might if you're switching from another player. The player works wonderfully and sounds pretty good in my car at very loud volumes. I ripped the mp3s at 96kbps to save space and I plug directly into my car stereo with an auxiliary jack (I am lucky enough to have a stereo that came with one). If I really crank it up when listening to metal (Nightwish, specifically) the symbols sound like cheesy techno symbols. I'm not a super tech chick, but I am fairly nerdy and technical. In the mp3 player department, I would rank a little above an average user and I'm happy. I would recommend this player.
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