Ok we admit it, we thought the device pictured over the weekend by
Akihabara News was just the iPhone obscured by that iLuv case. But really, those pics were a bit preoccupied with something other than the, ehem, gadget. Fortunately, the good kids over at
dapreview sorted it out with pictures and a video of Samsung's sleek new flash player: the
Yepp YP-P2. A bit of digging also reveals plenty of specs courtesy of several unsubstantiated German language sites. These include up to 8GB of flash; biggie 3-inch, 428 x 240 pixel touch-screen display; MP3, WMV, WMA, and H.264 (MPEG4 AVC), MPEG-4 (ASF) support; Bluetooth (oh yes); integrated speaker and mic; and FM radio in a device just 100 x 52 x 9.2-mm thin. They've even implemented some of that
virtual click-wheel action hinted at by Apple patent applications but never quite implemented. Check another pic and video walkthrough of the interface after the break.
Read -- dapreview
Read -- unconfirmed specs
Read -- Akihabara News P2 promotion
posted August 14th 2007 2:56AM
OMFG SAMSUNG U MADE MY DAY (cries)
Forget the iPhone, forget the Zune, this is NOT a phone nor a Microsoft product!!! This is EXACTLY what I want - video, personal collection of my music (mp3, wma), my home videos (wmv) with a nice sized screen. Now with an integrated speaker and microphone, who can argue a point UNLESS the firmware crashes more than once in 30 minutes? The radio is nice, but what I want to hear is "It can record live radio.".
Now, give me a price and a place to buy one ASAP! It's 8GB, medium sized for me, more than enough space for a few songs, some video and oh wait a minute, by the video it also READS TEXT!!!! "Samsung deliver this to me and I will be forever grateful!"
My Sansa E260 is great, but the bluetooth and integrated speaker and document reading are features that put the Yepp 2 at the top of my list. I want one to test for crashing. Then praise this device in full force.
I can also ask for a expanded memory slot for more space added to unit, a/v out to my TV to play videos on it. (Yeh, I love electronics) Oh and price in the range of $120 to $225. My price would of course be $150.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GOD!!!
BRING IT OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!!! I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH IT IS!! I'M BUYING ONE!!! GOSH THIS LOOKS 10 TIMES BETTER IPHONE!!!! GOSH HOPE I CAN GET ONE BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!!
i'm still speechless. this is exactly what i need and what i wanted to be my next toy. man, this is the best looking samsung ever. and probably the best looking device i have ever seen. please bring it over here ASAP!!!
Ah, all this on the day you say don't buy an iPod... The 8Gb might be the deal breaker but how can you not see that and want one...?
Let me see, if Apple bring out the 6G iPod with iPhone UI and a 40-100GB disk, all the normal iTunes integration and something we didn't expect like, ohhh, dunno Wifi and a web browser and a .mac email account sync then yeah, that'd work - but for the first time I can reall, they might have a competitor product that sheer out geek-pr0ns them!
Gracious!
Hey did anyone noticed this but didn't the finger gestures for rewind or forward looked reversed? like for "back" he did to the right and "next" he did to the left
the light at the bottom is not an iphone like button but simply a light that comes on when charging, (it says in the www.pocket-lint.com pre release 'first look'). I hope the new nano looks like those pre release shots, cos if so it is a pile of w**k! and no amount of 'cover flow' can save it. I really do think the click wheel is so tired now and I think ipods actually look quite dated. Considering samsung make many of the ipod and iphones components it's about time the took some of the shine away from a company that insists on restricting the user to their own terrible software and refuses to support open source codecs and other popular formats! drag & drop all the way too! lets hope this spells a decline for apple, until they REALLY listen to what the consumer wants instead of nicely packaged products with very basic dated functions. power to the people!
Imagine what the 2nd gen of this will be. If this had an SD slot and bookmarks, it would be the end game for MP3 design. I'd buy several. I like the DNSe hotspot that cycles through the various EQ settings, without digging through submenus, and the quick search, where you slide your finger to the point you want played. And I like the large, black on white menus – easy to read while driving. And did I read built-in speaker? And a menu option for “Font”? Finally something a person can use out-of-the-box! No hacking necessary. I don't care what it costs! As of now, the iPod is passe.
Contrary to popular belief, the YP-P2 DOES SUPPORT OGG. Confirmed this from multiple Korean-based retailer sites.
A cheap shabby copy of Apple's outstanding products. Take someone else's idea, stick on a few bits for the geeks, undercut the original because you didn't have to pay anyone to come up with the idea, then sell it to the poor. The wave of iPhone and iPod Touch rip-offs begins...
Cheap Shabby? Er, if you think so. This is going up against new ipod nanos, (I bought a nano last month, but will sell it to buy the Samsung), and trust me mate, it's FAR from shabby.... each to his own tho'
Does it have an integrated speaker? I don't see it in Korean site.
This player is the be all end all for me. I bought an ipod touch at the same time as this thing on the premis that I'd return one and keep the other. The P2 won.
I just didn't like how the ipod looks, I don't like how it functions (hold mode is annoying) and I dont' like the broken wifi. The most terrible is the battery life.
The P2 has better audio quality, even through Bluetooth headphones (a lil bass loss during bluetooth operation) but the headphone quality using Sehniser in-ears or Shure E2's were in no comparison better than the ipod. The sound is clearer, more defined, richer, and 'warmer' to put it midly.
The video quality is the best I've seen on a portable player. It's crisp and clear, and you can tell that Samsung took the tech from their full size TV's.
While bluetooth will currently only connect to stereo headsets, there are three planned updates on the way (December, January, and March) these will add more functionality as we go along. the December update will add the phone sync ability that everyones been cheering about (and that I personally can't wait for! My car has bluetooth but no microphone, so I can't use it for calls, but if I can sync this thing to my phone, I'll just the audio transfer function to the car and the P2 mic as my new in car kit :D
The second update will add bluetooth file sharing and an OS/menu/GUI update (like it's needed...but if they can improve on whats already truley awesome go for it!). This update will also add game functionality. Useless for myself, but cool none the less.
The thrid is going to be 'beyond your imagination' according to Samsung... so who knows at this point.
The battery life is stellar. Upon opening the box it had 2 out of 4 bars of life. I have watched the included videos (some adds), the movie Phonebooth, and had about 10 hours of music playback, 8 of which using bluetooth connection. It started blinking this morning. The charge took 90 minutes, but I still left it on for four hours as recomended in the manual for the initial charge.
While the sound is crystal clear and the eq settings/effects are incredible, it is quiet. The preamp/amp seems to be underpowerd, but not by much. At max volume it is still plenty loud. I see this as a benifit because that way I don't have to worry about blowing my headsets.
The text reading function is pretty cool. As a new car sales person I constantly get bullitens so I just uploaded them to my P2 so I have access to them out on the lot if I miss info. I can also keep finance rates on there and any other info I may need. I just wish I could write messages into it so that I could make notes. Even if it was a T9 style text entry it would be cool.
The size is very ice, it's slim and very attractive. Even sleeker than the Touch. I'm still trying to decide which is better in terms of people asking which player you have...
'I got a Touch'
or
'I got a Y-P-P-2' or 'I got a P2' sounds like you need to goto the bathroom. The other one sounds perverted. At least it's not called the iTouch. :P
Very cool player, and even though it lacks WiFi...most hot spots are coded and pass locked now adays. And if your wardriving your usually going to do it with your laptop. If you really need to, get out your cell phone.
P2 = the win!