Samsung MP3 player goes 60 hours on a charge
By Sean Hollister 
posted May 10th 2010 10:38AM
posted May 10th 2010 10:38AM
posted May 10th 2010 10:38AM
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Maybe it could for its first 6 months, it won't be able to hold it's charge for long. My Samsung P2 (which I still use, by the way) never achieved its claimed "35 hour music playback time", and now it can barely hold a 10 hour charge (grant it, it's almost 3 years old). Nonetheless, Samsung's DNSe for music and customizable EQ still tops the ipod any day, at least with its sound quality (which many of us have forgotten why we initially bought mp3 players?).
@HotDog
Woot! P2 ftw!
battery is always #1 for me. even if the UI or design is crap as long as it plays and lasts a long time.
@(Unverified) I have a love/hate relationship with Sony for this. I had an NWA-3000. It had basically all the features I want in an MP3 player (even some that I can't find in one place any more), a lovely monochrome oled screen and nice sound quality. The downside was that the software was crippled by inefficiecny (browsing your library took forever sometimes). The actual UI was really nice and well thought out. Its battery regularly lasted over 30 hours back in the day but i had to get a new one after a couple of years.
@Whiternoise I've had the same love-hate thing with Sony players, Battery life and sound quality simply own the majority of other players I've tried out, and the hardware design is usually great. The problem is they always seem to hamper their products with either poor software, proprietary components or DRM. They are getting a bit better with this now, but I could scream at them for the amount of times they've produced an ipod killer only to screw it up at the last second.
Does anyone still use dedicated mp3 players anymore? I'd rather just use my phone.
@Smart People Play Tuba
Yeah, iPods (for example) are still selling like hotcakes.
@Smart People Play Tuba
I've slowly begun to have the same opinion as you. Dedicated mp3 players are great, but lately I've only been using my phone. Being able to have access to all of my mp3's as well as Pandora and Grooveshark is huge advantage for a phone over an mp3 player.
@Smart People Play Tuba
Once I got my Droid I had no need for a secondary player anymore. Before that, I had a Sansa Clip for the gym, an old Zune, and an iPod Touch (plus a Blackberry Curve). Android/iPhone OS smartphones pretty much make it irrelevant to keep a bunch of devices that overlap in function
@Smart People Play Tuba
I do use a dedicated iPod, but it's housed in my car, basically as an external hard drive with every song from my music library. I do not use CD's anymore, I think the real question is does anyone still use a portable CD player, I still see them in stores and all.
@J D You have a phone that will fit all your mp3's? It must not be a large collection.
@Smart People Play Tuba
i use my cowon s9 every day because of its 32gb storage, great battery life and superior sound quality. maybe its possible to find a phone with two of these features, but at least in sound quality the s9 trumps every phone any day.
@Smart People Play Tuba
I will never use a phone for a DAP.
I'd rather not have to juggle the usage of my music playing around the battery life of a phone - my Cowon S9 goes a week before needing a charge (55 hour rating) while my Desire goes a day. I'd also rather be able to use my phone separately without having to mess around with headphone wires (mine are tucked down my back under my shirt, round my belt loops and into my pocket).
O and my S9 sounds better than any phone out there and takes more codecs.
@Marbles
Yup, it does hold all of my mp3's. I've long since purged the thousands of songs that were downloaded or ripped from CD's that I have absolutely no use to keep on my hard drive, let alone phone.
Nice
This would have been so cool if it was 2006.
@Wesscoast Yeah, we got devices that can last on 70 hours charges now--wait....
Not too shabby, if only my phone lasted 10% as long as this I'd be happy :\
Also, due to fans of a certain other company and their propensity towards insisting that anything looking vaguely similar to their products should be ridiculed, I will semi-sarcasticly say this:
Zune KIRF
@KeegdnaB
actually, this is a rip off of the Samsung R1. oh, wait...
;)
@KeegdnaB
Squircle!
I own an HTC hero and am not even gonna attempt to listen to music on it. Battery's a joke. I find this to be the case with most phones, if you make quite a few calls, txt a bit and use intrnet over 3g or wifi and have email and widgets updating then try and listen to music as well you will run Ur battery down very quick. I don't think standalone players are dead yet particularly if you are a serious music listener and want extended play.
@Turnipus +1 im in exactly the same situation
@Turnipus Well, my phone (Samsung Omnia) has the option of turning the LCD of your phone off and still be able to hear music, so I only charge mine every other day, providing I don't use the WiFi all the time. LCDs on a phone typically suck out between 60 - 70% of your battery life anyways, and I'm sure if you have a screen that uses energy-saving features, you can cut how many time you charge your phone even further.
Thats pretty impressive, looks a lot like a zune though, which is a good thing =D
I think my Zune HD has a similar charge
Battery technology is still not at a point where your phone can replace your media player. This is a fact. Unless you only watch/listen to about 30 mins of music/video a day. You ever tried to watch a film on your phone and listen to a bit of music, then tried to use your phone after? The mobile/cell phone as a decent media player is a myth IMO. I
At this stage I personally I think it's all about media players like the Viliv P3 with advanced smartphone like features/specs, running an OS like android but just not being able to make calls/text and are dedicated souly to media consumption and web, yet at the same time highly portable.
Did the Cowon J3 get a post for its 64-hour battery life? That's based on specs, of course, but I remember a few years back the tiny Cowon U2 boasted 18 hours of playback so cnet decided to test the outlandish claim. They got 20 hours.
@Smart People Play Tuba: It's not just battery life - if I could fine a phone that sounded as good as a Cowon PMP, I'd totally agree with you. Sadly convergence hasn't produced that outcome yet: sound quality from a dedicated PMP is solidly ahead. Yes, I know that's not a concern for everyone and their phone is "good enough" (I still use mine for Spotify on the go). But the market's far from gone.
They dropped FLAC support? Nooo!
Is there still a need for PMPs if you have a smartphone with a 1GHz processor?
@b3n let me ask you: is there a need for a 1ghz cpu if you just want to listen to music?
@b3n
i think you forgot /s tag?
@b3n Everybody in the world has a smartphone? I don't.
I don't know. I'm asking :)
I don't have a smartphone.
And my current PMP is a Creative Nano 1GB that I've had for YEASR lol.
I DO want a smartphone AND I DO want to listen to more music, more easily. But I don't think I should need two separate devices.
I recently bought some £150 ear-phones and started using FLAC.
@b3n 1gb? So do you only listen to like 5 albums or are you listening to highly compressed MP3s on $400 earphones?
@KashmaNiaC *$200 (wow your exchange rate has plummeted since I'd last been to the UK!)
@KashmaNiaC
I have hundreds of albums!
At work I have a 500GB HDD. At home I have a 750GB HDD and a 120GB SSD. Plenty of room for FLAC (which I play with Songbird).
Most of my music is still in MP3 format but I'm gradually creating a FLAC archive. The earphones I got are only mid-range (Phonak PFE112) - I didn't go as far as the £300 Shures.
I still use MP3s on my ancient Creative Nano as it's only 1GB (and it can't play FLAC)
60hours? Yeah, battery life is important, but once you reach 24 hours, it's good enough. Besides, how's the stand-by life? A lot of MP3 players discharges battery even when they're off, so 60 hours continuous play may sound great, but if your player is dead after a couple days of stand-by, what's the point.
Samsung software = Chinese fire drill
that player looks kind of familiar... im not zure though
Nokia N8 does 50hrs playback on a single charge !!
60 hours on a charge?? it's really imaginable. but if it is true, that really sounds good.
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