| Product: |
Samsung YP-E64 64 MB |
| Date: |
28/07/01 (92 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Durability, Looks Smart, Reasonably Long Battery Time
Disadvantages: PC - Player Interface is slow, Equalizer Options
My first good experience of this particular MP3 player was dropping it onto a kerb whilst running full tilt across a road on a rather miserable rainy day. "Well thats that gone" I thought to myself as a reached down to pick it back up, whilst scanning the ground for the included belt clip. I saw it. Just in time for it to slip down a drain.
Now I shrugged off the belt clip and held down the play button, turning it on. Well, I was simply astounded. It worked, flawlessly. The silver paint had scratched off one corner leaving a slightly gawdy white plastic finish, but this piece of technology survived a drop from about 4 foot onto wet tarmac. Usually anything even remotely related to technology and myself has an afinity with the ground. Mobile phones leap out from my grasp and strike the ground, refusing to work. Camera's seize the oppotunity to fall over the edges of scenic bridges.
I purchased the 64mb model, for £200, although that was around 9-10 months ago. The price has quite surely dropped by now. 64mb will hold around an hour of reasonable quality sound, and is about standard today. You can squeeze a bit more on it buy lowering the bit rate (quality) of the tracks your rip from CD. On a portable player such as this, quality is limited mainly by lack of storage.
Real Jukebox software is included for ripping CD tracks to mp3, although this will only allow up to 96kps which can have quite a strong mid range. The included software for transfering tracks is good, as well as allowing you to use your Yepp like a dictaphone. The only problem with file transfering is the parallel interface with your computer which is much slower than the reasonably new USB standard. Still, if you're prepared to wait a couple of minutes longer, it does the job fine, and should you wish to speed it up you can obtain a USB cable from Samsung's website.
It features a 3 line dot matrix screen with equalizer featuring "3D sound&
quot; which basically puts an echo on it making it sound quite poor. You can choose from Jazz, Rock or Pop which sound remarkably similar. Those three are also available in the shoddy "3D" variety.
64mb memory is upgradable with a 64mb Samsung flash card, to 128mb.
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