Samsung YP-Z5 flash MP3 player with 1.8-inch display

Samsung is next in line with their pre-CES announcements today: the YP-Z5 flash MP3 player. It comes in 2 or 4GB flavas and features a 1.8-inch LCD display apparently for viewing, uh, pictures. It supports MP3 and WMA playback for a whopping 38-hours on a single charge and sports Samsung's DNSe Digital Natural Sound Engine which is said to create a more accurate and natural sound. Expect this sweet little player to ship sometime in the first half of 2006.

[Chuckles @ Jan 2nd 2006 10:10AM]

Who's that on the screen? She's hot!

[ipodman715 @ Jan 2nd 2006 10:50AM]

lol..

[XGM @ Jan 2nd 2006 10:53AM]

heh lol...

[d @ Jan 2nd 2006 1:41PM]

that looks like the gigabeat without the crosspad and a smaller screen

[barry @ Jan 2nd 2006 1:46PM]

is this a cell phone ?

[CCMCornell @ Jan 2nd 2006 2:28PM]

Can you spell "j-a-i-l-b-a-i-t"?

[Za @ Jan 2nd 2006 3:09PM]

Will that replace my nano?

[totalundone @ Jan 2nd 2006 4:45PM]

i will not purchase another samsung player. the t7z has trouble playing vbr mp3s... seriously... that's a pretty basic thing to fuck up on. Sometimes when shutting off the mp3 player while it's on a vbr file, it will freeze when you turn it on. the only way to get it running again is to delete the file (reset doesn't work). that's great, especially when it's in the morning and i'm on my commute to work or school. they've known of this problem for at least 6 months now and they've done nothing.



if they want to be considered a top tier company (and charge for it), than they need to offer the support a top tier company offers.

[barry @ Jan 2nd 2006 5:56PM]

so what the hell is this doing under cellphones category

[limibry @ Jan 2nd 2006 7:32PM]

she's homepage..

http://mini.dspenter.com/hyolee



she's music video..

http://www.pandora.tv/my.sinu486/378375



http://search.empas.com/search/lyric.html?q=Anyclub+%28%BE%D6%B4%CF%C5%AC%B7%B4%29&vl=G&ti=80142872

[Ben @ Jan 2nd 2006 9:21PM]

This looks to be my next MP3 player. I've desired a working MP3 player, but have many, many things against Apple, so anything "iPod" is out. This looks to have the design nice-looking-ness of a Nano, but more friendly to us PC people. (WMA, MP3... Play For Sure!?)

Also the battery life on the Samsung products are generally pretty good.



Now here's hopping they can beat out the Nano pricing...

[boneyard @ Jan 3rd 2006 11:08AM]

some more (working) info on the hottie on the player



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hyori
some more (working) info on the hottie on the player



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hyori

[mike @ Jan 5th 2006 1:05AM]

as far as pricing is concerned i heard on the cnet special interview that they were planning on charging $199 for the 2 gig and $249 for the 4 gig version. Here is the link if you dont beleive me...



http://reviews.cnet.com/4660-6490_7-6412088.html?tag=vid



Actually im more concerened with whether or not it will be recognized by the computer as a flash drive because i use linux instead of windows and prefer that method of file transfer... i could care less about this plays for sure crap. wma's bite anyhow.

[levander @ Jan 7th 2006 3:17AM]

Damn, is the silver lettering on the black one bright enough? I guess they were worried people would look at the screen and not their advertising logo beneath it. So, they had to make it as bright and shiny as possible.