Samsung YP-U3JQB 2GB Touch Control MP3 Player (Black) by Samsung Electronics
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Digital camera reviews of Samsung YP-U3JQB 2GB Touch Control MP3 Player (Black)
Digital camera Review: bad rap
Summary: 4 Stars
This player is not too bad, what a bad rap it is getting from computer illiterates. OK, it is not a flash drive, so you won't get a drive letter for it. However, you can easily drag and drop various files to it within explorer. It works on the MTP protocol, which means you need to update to Windows Media Player 10 or you won't be able to access it. Note that you do not have to use Windows Media Player 10, you just have to install it. At any rate, it's a free update from MS. It's not one of those critical updates, so use the Windows update feature and click over to the software updates. That being said, the absence of documentation from Samsung to explain this little detail (and there is no indication of this on the packaging) is incredibly incompetent; it took me an hour to figure this out.
As for the player, yeah, the display is really small and difficult to see if you're running or such. The so-called buttons aren't buttons, and I'm constantly hitting the wrong one. Real buttons would be nicer. The sound quality is quite good, though, and the volume can be cranked way up. The snap-on clip is useless - it just snaps off... It's good overall (I have a drawer full of MP3 players, and it's a good one), haven't had weird firmware freezeups like on old Samsung players....
My only beef with this device is that it is too small (screen and buttons). Size matters.
Digital camera Review: Don't buy this one
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a limited, step back in time, mp3 player. Was a mystery how to add music at first because as the other reviews point out it is not a usb mass storage device. If you have usb 1.1 like my computer, forget about it even connecting at all. You could try to flash the firmware to an older more advanced version, but word on the net is that you can't. Simply put, this is a major step back in technology.Digital camera Review: For the young?
Summary: 3 Stars
Perhaps I'm too old or my hands are too big, but my recent purchase of the Samsung YP-U3JQB 2 Gb Touch Control MP3 Player has left me using my old radio/cassette Walkman again. With my Walkman I can see the buttons and nothing happens without me knowing why. I know that if I use the radio today, tomorrow when I use it again, it will be just as I left it. The Samsung is so small that once I place my thumb on it, I can't see the dial anymore and things start happening without my permission. My wife has tried to help me but I really think it's my kids I need. They wouldn't be having this problem, they would know just what to do.
I think this is a product best left to the young.
Digital camera Review: User-Unfriendly, -retraction
Summary: 1 Stars
This player was purchased for me as a gift, but luckily my wife kept the receipt, because it is going back to the store this weekend. Out of the box, it's very small, very lightweight, and has a nice (monochrome)display. From what I could hear, the sound was decent, and I was really looking forward to using it daily.
Unfortunately, right out of the box, this device is not detected as a storage device on either my home or work computers (both PCs with up to date Windows software), so I could not add or delete music files. I do not want to be forced to upload the included Rhapsody / B*st Buy Store software included with the U3 because I am quite happy with my current set up, do not want additional (and invasive) software clogging up my PC, and I have no plans at all to purchase music online. However it appears that I must upload this software to even open the player files on my computer! I don't like being unexpectedly force-fed unwanted programs when all I wanted was a cheap MP3 player to rip my CD collection onto.
What can I say? Maybe this places me squarely into the old-fuddy camp but I have no use for this player at all. I will be shopping for a different MP3 player at the first opportunity.
UPDATE: I was able to detect the player as a drive on my home system and easily able to load music onto the U3. There was a block on my work system which appeared to keep the computer from detecting the U3, but I did not have problems with my home computer. The MP3 player has been working fine and I have revised my opinion of this neat little player. For something small, relatively inexpensive, and with an FM radio, it's actually quite good. I am glad I tried it a second time on my home computer and will not be returning it.
Digital camera Review: Ummm, not quite.
Summary: 2 Stars
I read all the reviews of this player and also the sansa express. I wanted to an ultra-small player for the gym. Unfortunately, the heat-sensitive buttons on this player utterly ruin it for me. It is nearly impossible to change tracks or volume or navigate menu options without holding the player directly in front of you, and carefully (and slowly) pressing the correct location on the front with a finger. Since there are no actual buttons on the face, and no tactile feedback, it's easy to fat-finger the device and ended up inadvertently changing tracks, or even switching to an entirely different play mode, when all you wanted to do was up the volume a notch. Really, really, poor design, and useless as a gym player, even though it comes with a well designed armband and clip. I ended up putting it in the bin and buying the Sansa Express, which has a MUCH better menu design and real buttons. But NO armband or clip. Life is never perfect.