Oh jealousy, you are a vile beast. While the Korean market has had access to the spicy P3 touchscreen PMP for months now, long enough for Samsung to release a
complete revision of the firmware, we're still stuck waiting for the ambiguous "first half of this year." The impatient can always import, exactly what
Pocketables has done, giving its gray-market gadget the full review treatment. Its design is found to be similar yet much more attractive than the earlier
P2, size comparable to Cowan's
S9, 480 x 272 touchscreen brilliant, and the UI snappy and intuitive. Negatives? Sound quality was found to be good, but not great out of the box (able to be fixed with a suite of tuning options) and the lack of video output is a slight handicap. Overall, the P3 sounds like the perfect competition for the S9 and just the PMP for our envious hearts -- if only it came in green.
posted March 13th 2009 7:02AM
Does anyone else want this to have Wi-Fi? Seriously.
no
meh...i dont care, if i wanna look up sometin, i'll use my cell phone
I'm glad I purchased my iPod touch over other mp3 players mainly because it has wi-fi. Since my college has wi-fi everywhere, I find myself constantly using the iPod's internet capability wherever I go. And recently my laptop charger got fried, so I was able to temporarily use my iPod as my main internet access (whenever I can't use the school's computers). It has been a saving grace. I often am disappointed by its poor contrast ratio/screen quality which I'm sure the P3 or Cowon PMPs can easily best. But in the end the inclusion of wi-fi has won me over. If other PMPs included wi-fi, then I would have easily gotten those over an iPod touch, but I knew how important it is to have internet and with so few PMPs including web browsing capability, I didn't have much choice.
IMO, poor excuses like "i'll use my cell phone" just doesn't cut it. It's like saying "Oh, since that doesn't have X,Y, and Z, I'll use devices A, B, C to do X, Y, Z." Yea, have fun carrying so many devices with you.
Am I the only one who misses physical buttons on music players? This touchscreen fad is misguided nonsense.
there are play/pause and volume buttons on the top
You need some buttons, but not many. The ipod did this part right. The iphone doesn't have enough buttons for me, too much swiping. I prefer my G1: when I want to hang up on someone I can push that button *with impunity*.
The screen resolution seems to be LOW.
Comparing the P3's "brilliant" touchscreen [which is defiantly resistive] to
Cowon's AMOLED Capacitive behemoth is just plain wrong. I wanna see every pmp with either AMOLED or just plain 'ol OLED capacitive touchscreens from now on. Sony has already jumped on the future display tech bandwagon for their upcoming Z series Walkman and I'm just waiting NERVOUSLY for that Archos Android Tablet to come out with this kinda complementary display/touchscreen combo of OLED's and Capacitive responsiveness.
Watch out Apple.
it's capacitive.
According to Cnet, we wont see the P3 US release till Mid April. And I doubt that they will release the 32GB ver. Probably only 8 and 16. /cry
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10170282-49.html?tag=mncol;title
Love how the P3 UI gets a positive comment, but the S9 got slurred in the "review" even though it's much snappier and has UCI.
The 8GB model is available in Canada already at Best Buy...
please get this outta my face,.,.,its 2009!!!!!!!!!!! Only people i see buying this are ill-informed cowon fanboys ,fans of bt audio. Staticky,unreliable,waste of money n bt headphones,.,.,i wish someone could email me after 30 day return policy on this mp3 n tell me what a bad decision they made.,.,.,
Cool, wondering when the P3 was coming along here.
I have an S9, and I thought this might be a very good competitor...but I don't regret getting an S9.
Looks nice, but for the price it's not worth it to get this over a S9 or even ipod touch.
but the engadget logo is -blue-....