Samsung Pebble MP3 Player YP-S2

Samsung's YP-S2 pebble Mp3 player is coming soon. You may refer to the following link.

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Samsung’s stone-cold shuffle-killer sighted

Into rock music? You’ll love Samsung’s new music player. It’s a tiny MP3 pumper that’s shaped just like a stone. We caught sight of it for the first time yesterday, although it’s not due to go on sale until May.

It’s obviously Samsung’s attempt to topple the iPod shuffle, and with a choice of metallic or marble-effect casings, it’s definitely just as attractive.
Around the back are the same simple controls as the shuffle, but inside there’s less memory, and no added extras.

Unlike the Creative Zen Stone Plus, you won’t find a screen, FM radio or voice recorder here.
Check out our video below, and let us know what you think.

Samsung YP-P2 supports 16GB

Now, Samsung YP-P2 supports 16GB memory and it is released in the market. We can definately use P2 as a file storage device.

Samsung YP-N1 Navigation Device Review

Reviewed by Sean, http://goitworld.blogspot.com

A navigation device has become a necessity in the modern era and made our life convenient and safe. Samsung released an intelligent navigation device with easy-to-use interface, stylish design and high technology.

I was quite impressed by the various functions of YP-N1 which is the Samsung’s newest personal navigation device released recently. The significant features are the Bluetooth support, Google’s KML compatibility, TMC for real time traffic and Emoture – a finger gesture UI. YP-N1 focused mainly on navigation and added all necessary features related to navigation. Following is the review of the YP-N1 navigation device.

Packages and Components

First of all, let’s see the components included in the package. The package consists of the personal navigation device, map manager DVD, user’s guide, cradle, suction cup mount, car charger, AC power adapter, TMC antenna, USB cable, and SD card. The detailed TeleAtlas map, one of the reliable and famous maps, was preinstalled in the SD card.

The suction cup was made in Germany and strong enough to hold the personal navigation device. I could easily set up the cradle by moving the mount horizontally and vertically without any problems.

Slim and Stylish Design

As you can see the side view, the upper right shape is slightly curved. The slim line design looks more delicate like a lady’s skinny leg. The slim design and light weight made the device portable, so it was easy to carry while many other devices were too bulky to carry and were not attractive.

The wireless hands-free Bluetooth feature is a must. Using a mobile phone while driving a car is prohibited by law in most countries. The built-in Bluetooth allowed me to receive incoming calls and send outgoing calls. I could easily place a direct call by using POI with only a few clicks on the touch screen. The POI is an abbreviation of Point of Interest which stores various information including telephone numbers about services, transportation, shopping, etc.. I was surprised that I did not have to use my mobile phone to place a call while driving. I used the Bluetooth feature whenever I received or made phone calls. The built-in microphone provided an easy usability. This Bluetooth feature for the mobile phone compatibility was very convenient and safe for driving.

Intelligent Navigation There are three automatic control features: auto zooming, auto sound, and auto brightness control.

The auto zooming feature automatically magnifies (zoom in) the map to provide accurate information when the car approaches an intersection or corner to change the direction. Thus, I was able to see the map in detail when I change the direction. As soon as I turned right or left, the map zoomed out automatically so that I could see road widely. The auto sound feature changes the volume level of the instruction voice automatically depending on how fast my car runs. Higher the speed, higher the volume. The auto brightness control feature changes the LCD’s brightness based on the light brightness. The LCD’s brightness of 540cd and the auto brightness control feature allowed me to read the screen clearly during the day and night.

In addition to the LCD information, I thought that a 4.3” LCD size was not big enough. But I was wrong. Samsung’s 4.3” WQVAG TFT touch screen LCD (480x272 pixels) was wide enough to display all navigation information I needed. This displayed more information than a normal 4:3 ratio screen could do.

Easy-to-Use User Interface

YP-N1 provides an easy-to-use interface. The intuitive menu enabled me to use the various functions conveniently. The menu for finding a location was categorized into family, home, work, favorites, recent locations, POI, and coordinate groups. Using these location groups, I could easily select a destination. When there are many items (locations) on a list, I used either the scroll bar on the right side of the screen, or the Emoture feature to see the next or previous pages on the list. The Emoture feature worked similarly as performing the drag and drop feature provided in Windows.

I could run a full simulation for a specified route path. The current speed, distance and time to the destination displayed on the left side of the screen were helpful information to estimate how long and how far I should drive to the destination. The Turn-by-Turn mode was a useful feature for driving since it simply showed the turning point with distance left.



Realtime TMC Traffic Service & Google KML Compatibility

TMC stands for Traffic Message Channel. YP-N1 uses full advantages of the TMC feature which provides the traffic information in real time. Although TMC and speed camera services are limited in some cities and countries, I could save time by avoiding heavy traffic areas. The safety camera alert made me reduce the speed and saved me some money as well when I approached a location where a speed camera was waiting for me in high speed.

One of the smart features of YP-N1 is the Google KML compatibility. I did not know what KML meant. But I found that KML was a file format that was used to display geographic data in a Earth browser such as Google Maps, Google Earth. I made a KML file including my favorite locations from Google Earth and downloaded the KML file to my YP-N1 device. I could easily search for the locations stored in the KML file from YP-N1.

The personal navigation device, YP-N1, is a mid-range multi-functional navigation device. YP-N1 has the most updated features and is the device that focused mainly on the navigation functionalities. Through the functionality of YP-N1, I could see the effort that Samsung tried to make a masterpiece in the navigation products and tried to become the world best.

Multi-tasking requires a high performance of CPU. YP-N1 used Samsung’s 400MHz S3S2440 chipset and SiRFStar III 20 Channel GPS module. These high performance reliable components enabled YP-N1 to do multi-tasking and support multi functions without problems.

I am pretty satisfied with Samsung’s personal navigation device, and hope other users of YP-N1 love the product.

Reviewed by Sean, http://goitworld.blogspot.com

Samsung YP-S5, MP3 Player Product Review

Reviewed by Sean - "http://goitworld.blogspot.com"

The history of portable MP3 players has already been 10 years since the world’s first portable MP3 player was introduced to the world. MP3 players have evolved a lot since then. Now, MP3 players are no longer a music player. Their features have changed intelligently and conveniently as new technologies are developed. We can’t even imagine how far they will evolve.

I am sure that YP-S5, Samsung’s new mp3 player, would be one of them. I would like to introduce a product review of the Samsung’s YP-S5 model. As I am a normal MP3 player user, I hope this product review is fair, not biased and helpful for you to understand features of the YP-S5 product.

Major changes for YP-S5 from previous MP3 players around the world are the state-of-the-art gift package, practical earphone, simple design, built-in slide-out speakers, Bluetooth support, video support, Datacast support, enhanced sound quality, and easy-to-use user interface and graphics.

State-of-the-art Gift Package
The gift package is made of transparent plastic। Just looking at the package, you can say that the product inside is valuable. Unlike other product packages that are made of cardboard are easy to be thrown away, the plastic carton box of YP-S5 would be one that will be put on a shelf with your accessories in it.

The package includes all the necessary components. Specially, the line-in audio cable enables us to listen to the external audio player through the built-in speakers of YP-S5. The installation CD includes Samsung’s Media Studio, a software application that manages various types of contents such as music, video, lyric, internet contents through DataCast feature in order to be used in YP-S5. The 24-pin USB cable is used both to transfer data between PC and YP-S5, and to charge the built-in battery of YP-S5. However, I am not sure whether a normal 24-pin battery charger used for cellular phones will also work to charge the YP-S5. The manual does not explain about this in detail.

Practical Earphones
Earphones of YP-S5 are designed to be fit in the human ears. I have had so many earphones as other people do. But none of the earphones has satisfied me yet because they do not fit in my ears at all and easily fall off. However, I was surprised that Samsung released an earphone with its products that fits in my ears perfectly. The earbuds looked different from others. It seems that a small protrusion of the earbud keeps the earbud stay firmly in human ears, and keep the sound quality.

The splitter between two earphone lines is also a useful component and prevents the lines from being entangled।

Simple Design and Slide-Out-Built-In Speakers
YP-S5 looks so simple। Other than the 24-pin port and earphone port, there is only one physical button used for power on/off and hold. All other buttons are hidden but operated only by touching the appropriate location on the touch pad below the LCD. The location of the touch buttons and the graphics on the LCD also changes accordingly when the built-in speaker slides out. The speaker unit slides out and in very smoothly. You would feel just like sliding a cell phone.

Although YP-S5 consists of a stereo speaker unit, the thickness of YP-S5 is only 9.6mm. If the speaker unit was not built-in, the thickness would have been only half of the actual size.

Considering the Power button, I wish the button was placed on the right side instead of being placed on the top side. Operating the Power button was not convenient.

Bluetooth Support

I recently bought a Bluetooth stereo headset to utilize the advantage of Bluetooth feature provided by YP-S5। Anyway, I needed a Bluetooth headset। AS instructed in the manual, it was easy to pair the Bluetooth headset with YP-S5। I could wirelessly listen to music and FM stereo radio through the Bluetooth stereo headset. But the video sound did not work wirelessly. I think that the CPU of YP-S5 does not have enough power to decode the video format and Bluetooth function at the same time. The Bluetooth feature is one of the convenient technologies for portable music players since it works wirelessly.

One thing I could not test was to pair YP-S5 with a Bluetooth mobile phone. My mobile phone supports Bluetooth but I could not pair it with YP-S5. I think I need to do more exercise on this, and find out what is wrong. BTW, my mobile phone was not listed on the Bluetooth compliant mobile phone list in the user’s guide.

Video Support
Samsung Media Studio automatically converts a video file to SVI format, the Samsung’s video file format for YP-S5 during download process। As the conversion takes time, you would need more patience if you want to download video files to the player in real time। In order to save time, I would strongly suggest you convert video files before you go to bed or when you have time. The Samsung Media Studio has a feature to do so and turns off PC after conversion. This helps me to watch Heroes, Smallville, and Prison Break series on YP-S5. The LCD is not big enough, but it is still OK to watch videos. I will let this off this time.

Datacast Support
I was not familiar with the term, Datacast. However, I found it a very useful feature. Using Samsung Media Studio, the Datacast feature allows you to automatically receive your interested and updated information from the web, Blog, news, and UCC sites without having you to visit the sites. I could enjoy reading the updated information through YP-S5 instead of reading newspapers in subways when I go to work or when I am not in front of PC.


Enhanced Sound Quality
DNSe is a 3D sound effect that Samsung developed for MP3 players. I could distinguish various sound effects provided by YP-S5 including DNSe. The provided earphones with 20mW and 16Ω also helped enjoying the sound quality.

Easy-to-Use User Interface and Graphics
There are only 7 touch buttons on the touch pad. The seven buttons were enough to browse and navigate all the functions easily. Base on the LCD layout whether displayed horizontally or vertically, the buttons layout on the touch pad also changes horizontally or vertically. Thus, I could recognize which button was the next, left, up, or down button. The button is lit for a while when I touched on the touch pad. This is a good feature. However, I found it needs to be improved. When the light of all the buttons is turned off from the touch pad, sometimes I had to miss-operate buttons since I could not see where the buttons are located.

In conclusion, since MP3 players evolve as new technologies are introduced and support not only playing MP3 music files, but also playing video files, viewing lyric for MP3 contents, viewing text files, playing games, reading Datacast contents (internet contents), communicating with Bluetooth mobile phone and headset (wireless), viewing pictures, listening to FM radio, voice recording, we should name such an MP3 player an omnipotent player in near future.

BTW, in overall, I was quite satisfied with Samsung’s YP-S5 product.
-Reviewed by Sean - http://goitworld.blogspot.com/