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User Submitted Samsung YP-P2JCB P2 8 GB Touchscreen Bluetooth Portable Media Player (Black) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-02-13 Very Nice MP3 Player I found it to be a very good player for the price. This is my 1st MP3 Player so I cannot compare it to others.It works well and is easy to burn music to it. One thing that could be improved upon is the battery life. I was getting about 16hrs on a charge. Date: 2008-02-11 Best MP3 Player I've Owned Best MP3 player. I've owned others, including iPod's and for the price, this is the best. Great video, exceptional sound, and very cool touch screen controls. Date: 2008-02-10 I hesitated because of the touchscreen. I've had my 8gb YP-P2 for about a month and so far, it's great. It does everything I was looking for in an mp3 player. Before I bought this on Amazon, I went to Best Buy to try it out. Because Best Buy sucks, I wasn't really able to test out anything besides the P2's durability. When no one was looking, I pressed a blunt piece of metal into the screen and dragged it across. No visible scratch. Then, I grabbed the P2 by one corner, with my thumb planted in the middle of the screen, and started to bend it a bit. The screen's colors distorted for a few seconds, but then went back to normal...no crack, no change in touchscreen responsiveness. I haven't done anything like that to the one I own, but so far, I am pretty impressed. The back looks like plastic, but it's actually painted metal, which makes me feel better. I applied the screen protector that came with it and then sewed it a little protective sleeve and now I just throw it in my purse with everything else and it is doing just fine. (Though I do not expect it to be a tank like my Sansa e250 was.) It sounds great...way better than the Sansa did. I am only using the earbuds that came with it and I've used a couple of the preset equalizer settings and I really like it. When I first got it, there was a crackling noise between songs and a few other places, but after the first firmware upgrade, those things were gone. During play, it can show album art, track info or a graphic equalizer thingy that responds to the music. (There are a couple of other visualizations, but they are just looped animations that have nothing to do with the music and are totally pointless.) You can also drag the progress bar around to go forward or back in a track...very useful for audiobooks. The touchscreen is very responsive. I was afraid I was going to be sitting there poking at it over and over to get it to work, but it is very quick, smooth and accurate, even with my blunt fingertips. That first firmware upgrade improved it's responsiveness even more. There are a couple of "buttons" in the Now Playing screen that could have been a little bigger or better placed, but it's not a big deal so far. All the controls are pretty intuitive as soon as you learn what the different menu items mean. Pictures look wonderful on this screen. The colors are bright and beautiful. You can zoom in and then kind of pan around, but it is a bit slow. I put a few manga scanlations in there and I have to zoom in and then pan around the page to read them. It works, but it is a little too cumbersome to do that all the time. And flipping to the next picture has a very significant lag. Videos look very nice on this thing. I've only played a couple of music videos on it, but they look great on the bright screen. They converted easily on the Samsung Media Studio software that came with it. But I'm not a big fan of staring for long periods at a 6.5cm screen, so I haven't used the video feature much. One of the main things I wanted was a text reader so that I could read fanfiction (I'm a dork. ^_^') on my way to work. Each text file can have a bookmark in it so when you go back to it, it opens right where you marked it. You can chose some different text sizes and colors. (I also use it for song lyrics and a few recipes so that I know what to buy when I'm at the store.) You can listen to music while reading text, but you can't change tracks without first bookmarking your place, exiting the text reader, going to the Now Playing screen, changing tracks, and then going back to where you were. You can, however, change the volume or pause the music while you read using the buttons on the sides of the player. I haven't used the FM radio yet, since I really only listen to AM radio. (Oh, if only they could make an mp3 player with an AM radio in it, my life would be complete.) I have used the bluetooth with my phone only once and it worked pretty well, I think...I answered a call and the person on the other end didn't notice at all. I haven't made any calls with it yet. It connected to my Motorola L7 very easily. I don't use the bluetooth much because it drains the battery faster. I have no experience with bluetooth headphones or stereos. Apparently you can now transfer files with the bluetooth as well, but I haven't tried that yet, either. I am happy with the battery life. I listen to music maybe 3 or 4 hours a day, sometimes while reading text and I charge/sync it about twice a week. It takes forever to charge it to full, so usually don't. I ran the battery completely out once, but I hadn't plugged it in for 6 or 7 days. I certainly didn't get the 35 hours it claims, but I do use the touchscreen A LOT. Setting the screen brightness to 3 and the Display Off to 15 seconds has helped with the battery life. I have been using the Samsung Media Studio to load text, pictures, and video and it's very easy...easier than using Windows Media Player 11, which I use to sync music playlists. It is also very easy to just drag-and-drop pictures and music into the P2. (I haven't tried that with text, yet and I hear it's rarely possible with video.) I don't browse my music by folder, but I'm glad that I can if I want to. I haven't had any problems with connecting it to my computer. I have had a couple of weird glitches with playlists, though. It seems when I sync in WMP11, I have to remove the playlist from the P2 and then add the modified version back in or it won't show any changes. (This doesn't seem like "syncronizing" to me, but what do I know?) Also, sometimes after I sync, the P2 shows multiple playlists with the same name even though they are different playlists when you play them. Maybe it's a problem with WMP11. I don't know. The sleep function is very handy. I haven't used the alarm or the address book. I am really looking forward to the firmware updates because they seem to be adding some pretty fun and useful stuff...games, play speed control, file deletion, etc. My complaints: The screen is very shiny. Fingerprints are everywhere, but I just wipe them off. The glare, however, is pretty bad. I have to tilt it a lot when I am reading text if I am near a bright window. It's also very hard to see the screen on a sunny day unless the screen brightness is up pretty high. I hate the ridiculous indicator light that's right there in the middle. Everyone who picks it up thinks it's a button and tries to push it and then I have to tell them it's just a light. And it's very bright and blinky and very pointless. I'll probably end up putting a sticker over it. And this is the reason I didn't want a touchscreen: I have to use the Hold switch ALL THE TIME. I wish the tactile volume and pause/play buttons on the side still worked while it was in hold, but I suppose that would defeat the purpose. Anyway, I constantly have to pull the thing out of my pocket and undo the hold switch to do anything. Annoying, but I expected that. OK...this isn't really that bad, but if you don't pause the song before you turn the unit off, then when you turn it back on, it will start off right where you left it, right at the same volume that you left it. This caught me by surprise a couple of times. The other option is to have it start off at the Home screen, but then you lose your place in an audiobook track because there is no audio bookmarking feature(that I am aware of). The other mp3 player I was looking at along with this one was the 8gb iriver clix2. I chose this one because of the bluetooth, the firmware upgrades and the lower price. I don't know if I would have liked the iriver more, but I am very happy with my P2. Date: 2008-02-08 Awesome MP3 Player.. I've had this player for about 3 months now and I honestly can't find anything wrong with it. PROS - -Touchscreen works perfectly, very responsive. -Design looks really good, slim and sexy. -Audio sounds great. -Video is much better quality than I would have expected in such a small player. -Earbuds sounded great and didn't hurt my ears when listening for extended time. ("sounded" because my dog chew them up and now I'm using my old Ipod earphones, which are fine too.) -Software seems to be much much better than Itunes/Ipod software. Much more user friendly as well. -Flash memory means I can job with this player and no skips. -Long battery life. Have personally went 20hrs without charging. And that's with switching songs manually throughout. CONS - -Only 8GBs. Sorry the cons list is so short. I'm really racking my brain here to find other things wrong with it. Well, in the end it's just a great player. Highly recommended! Date: 2008-02-08 Excellent choice I've owned this player for about a month now. I've had absolutely no problems, from loading the Media Studio software to loading movies, music, and photos. A carry case/belt clip should have been included with the player but it doesn't come with one so I did purchase a holster that works pretty well. The headphones are far from comfortable but that is such a personal choice anyhow, I fully intended to replace them right away. The touch screen is very clear. Movies play perfectly. I find the sound quality to be excellent but I do believe the replacement headphones I purchased contribute to the quality of the sound. I've used all the features of the player except the Bluetooth and have it set just the way I like it now. It takes a little practice to refine some of the settings but there is nothing too difficult. In summary, I highly recommend this player. Samsung makes great products and this is yet another example of that reputation.
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