Samsung prepping YP-Q1 PMP for IFA

It's not officially announced yet, but Samsung's expected to announce the YP-Q1 PMP at IFA this week. The vertically-oriented player will come in 4, 8 and 16GB varieties with a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, support for MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg, FLAC, MPEG4 and WMV, and an FM RDS radio. No word on pricing yet, but does anyone else think it's funny that Samsung will now have two entirely different slow-selling Q1s?

[Richard @ Aug 27th 2008 12:30PM]

The black one looks good to me. They get kudos for the FLAC support.

[Klebbenator @ Aug 27th 2008 12:51PM]

Who comes up with these garbage designs for mp3 players?? I've pinched loaves that have more class than this piece of shit.

[Heime45 @ Aug 27th 2008 1:16PM]

It'll sell for the mere reason that it doesn't have that awful central "rounded square" button like every wannabe phone knockoff has these days.

[Knives_Out @ Aug 27th 2008 1:35PM]

it won't sell. not in the united states at least ...

[cwk @ Aug 27th 2008 1:53PM]

so, what could they change that would make it classy in your view?



seems fine for what I assume it's intent - an affordable player.

[GON @ Aug 27th 2008 1:32PM]

It looks like a Walkman.

[GusG @ Aug 27th 2008 3:35PM]

Looks a LOT with the Walkmans A80x and A81x

[cj @ Aug 27th 2008 2:03PM]

The buttons remind me of a duck...

[RAQ @ Aug 27th 2008 2:05PM]

Oh come on people. Would you please include more video codecs into your PMP's. I would instantly buy a PMP with AVI, DIVX, XVID, etc... aswell as decent battery. I cant find anything to replace my Creative Zen Vision M.

[make_or_break @ Aug 27th 2008 2:27PM]

FLAC is good, but no AAC...not so good. At least if they support DRM-free AAC they can hope to attract former iPoders (like me) who crave for alternatives to the kazillions of Apple players in circulation.

The pad reminds me of a baseball diamond, with some guy named Samsung playing CF.

[iEye @ Aug 27th 2008 2:55PM]

They need to add Flash video to the list, no way this will compete with the iPod touch... looks like they spent all of 5 minutes to design it.

[whiskyjack @ Aug 27th 2008 2:59PM]

It looks defferent design comparing other yepp series.
Samsung seems to make new line-up PMP.
It looks simple design but it's trying to support as many format as possible.
Price range still remains to get or not.
Anyway, I'll have a look at this at IFA.

[konshuss @ Aug 27th 2008 3:03PM]

visually it reminds me of an old nokia i used to have, which doesn't necessarily thrill me. the support is great audio codec-wise and beats out my Creative Zen's need to convert OGG etc, but the lack of video support makes this totally useless to me - what a nice screen for nothing. one thing i notice about players that need to convert before viewing (such as the creative zen) is that it usually needs to convert AGAIN even when it's the same filetype... my samsung gogear's software bundle wouldn't work worth a damn so i'm soured overall to the idea of using conversion over simply including codecs.
personally i'll stick with my old audiovox ppc6600 with added codecs for movies, but i digress into the world of DIY...

[GusG @ Aug 27th 2008 3:38PM]

Lack of video?
"support for MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg, FLAC, MPEG4 and WMV"
MPEG4!!

[konshuss @ Aug 28th 2008 9:33AM]

lack divx? you lack my $.

[GusG @ Aug 28th 2008 3:25PM]

so what? creative Zen suports avi and you have to convert to the apropriate resolution... Converting because of the resolution or because of the format is the same..

[Andreas @ Aug 27th 2008 4:42PM]

Do people really buy stand-alone mp3 players in 2008? It feels soooo ...2003:ish

[Jeff @ Aug 27th 2008 4:19PM]

Yes we do. Because like it or not, dedicated players will always work better than a phone that's trying to walk and chew gum at the same time.

That said, I don't much see the point in a 4GB player of any kind anymore. It's not like storage is expensive, be it hard drive or solid state. I wouldn't buy a music player with anything less than 160GB worth of storage, personally - and even that's pushing it. (I have about 80GB of just mp3's, and then I use my iPod as a portable hard drive beyond that.)

Try doing that in a phone.

By the way, I wonder what time it was when they took these publicity shots... looks like somebody's working late.

[Andreas @ Aug 27th 2008 4:52PM]

@Jeff

So walk and chew gum at the same time is a problem for you, eh?

Personally I have never understood the need for a 2 or 3 figure number of GB:s in portable player. But again, I'm old and only listen to music when I'm not working.

[bradwjensen @ Aug 27th 2008 5:16PM]

Woohoo! FLAC support.