Samsung S3 4 GB Slim Portable Media Player (Blue)
Samsung S3 4 GB Slim Portable Media Player (Blue)
Samsung YP-S3JAL 4GB Blue Multimedia Player The SamsungS3 media player stands out from the crowd with its stylish ergonomic design and multiple color choices. Take your tunes anywhere with 4GB of storage.Thats approximately 1000 songs and the S3 is small enough to take jogging, walking, biking or almost anything you can think of. Samsungs DNSe soundengine brings the life back to your music so it sounds better than ever. The S3 is also compatible with Rhapsody and Napster so you can have access to millions of songs without spending .99 cents persong. S3 helps you look good and can make your life easier or more fun with the built-in FM radio &recorder with auto presets, a photo viewer, games, and text viewer. We cant forget the lighted touchpad, fun to use and great to see. Samsung S3, imagine style and great features. Features: *Lightweight portable media player * Plays audio, video, photo, and games * Supported formats: MP3, WMA, MPEG4, Ogg, SVI, JPEG, TXT * FM Tuner and recorder * DNSe 2.0 sound engine with variable EQ settings * 1.8″ TFT LCD display * Datacasting with Samsung Media Studio * Shows album artand wallpaper * File browser, mobile playlists * Adjustable playback speed * Clock display * Audio Playback: 25 hours * Video Playback: 4 hours * Internal Li-Poly rechargeable battery Specifications: Formats: MP3, WMA Music: Sort: Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres, Playlists DNSe: 7 preset EQ settings plus 1 custom 7-band EQ with 3D and Bass settings Play Modes: MP3/WMA/MPEG4/JPEG/ TXT PC playlists supported Displays album art, artist info, and wallpaper 25 hours of audio playback per battery charge Video PlaybackFormats: MPEG4, SVI Max Pixels: QCIF(176*220) Max Frame Rate: 15 fps 4 hours of video playback per battery charge Photo Playback Format: JPEG FM Radio and Recorder: S3 is able to record FM broadcasts Datacasting: Users can set up Datacasts (podcasts) usingRock out to your favorite tunes or watch crystal-clear videos wherever life takes you on a 1.8-inch LCD. Available in five cool colors, the Samsung S3 plays audio and video as well as displays still pictures and text. It also comes with 4 GB of memory and the DNSe sound engine for a superior surround sound experience. Packed with multimedia features you can enjoy no matter where you are, the Samsung S3 makes a perfect media partner.
The Samsung S3 is the perfect media partner. |
Slim, sleek, and portable. Click to enlarge. |
The Samsung S3 MP3 player comes in five cool colors: black, white, red, green and blue. Click to enlarge. |
4 GB Internal Flash Memory
Four gigabytes of internal flash memory provides enough storage space for approximately 50 hours of music (MP3 files at 128kbps).
Touch-Sensitive LED Controls
Navigate your files using the touch controls on the S3, which light up only when in use. After a certain period of idleness, the lights dim and the controls seemingly disappear. (Don’t worry, they’re still there.)
Multimedia Performer
The Samsung S3 supports MP3, WMA, and Ogg audio formats. Browse your music by Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres, or Playlists. The S3 displays album art and artist info for the current track.
You also can enjoy up to four hours of video on a single charge, in MPEG4 or SVI format. Convert your favorite vids with Samsung Media Studio, and take them with you. The S3 also will display text files, along with your favorite JPEG photos, so you can take a few snapshots with you to show to friends.
DNSe sound engine
Samsung’s “DNSe” technology lets you dial in your ideal sonic experience with 10 preset EQ settings plus one custom 7-band EQ, along with 3D and Bass settings.
FM Tuner/Recorder with Presets
Enjoy quick access to the FM spectrum–the built-in FM tuner scans the entire FM range in less than 60 seconds and automatically places the available FM stations into presets. To eliminate stations with marginal reception, you can adjust the sensitivity to preset stations only with strong receptions. Want to save something for later? Use the FM Recorder and it’s yours.
What’s in the Box
Samsung S3 4 GB Slim Portable Media Player (Blue), SMS installation CD, EP-380 earphones, USB cable.
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars No points for usability.
I’m actually kind of surprised that nobody’s mentioned two of the worst things about this player. If you’ve ever played with the iPod’s dial and are familiar with its degree of responsiveness, you’ll definitely be missing out on it here. The interface is crazy laggy — at LEAST 100ms per interaction, and closer 200-300ms on every menu change. Now two or three tenths of a second might not seem like much, but it definitely adds up, especially when you realize that the only way to scroll through your music or adjust the volume is by finger tapping through the lag. Moreover, in the current market of MP3 players there’s absolutely no reason why anybody ought to put up with this. There are better options on the market in the same price range if you look around.
Secondly, the way the buttons work make it impossible to do just about anything without picking the device out of your pocket and putting all of your attention on it. Other players are not like this; they frequently make it easy to adjust the volume or change tracks by just sticking your hand in your pocket and adjusting. If you want to do that here, however, you’ll testing your luck on its buttonless surface with very little by which to judge that you’re jabbing the right spot. Switching tracks by accident while trying to adjust the volume, or ending up in the music-options menu and then having to pull the thing out of your pocket in order to opt out it, gets old quickly.
Other people have mentioned the uselessness of the variable speed playback function (way to tempt users with something seemingly great, Sanyo!) and the clunky Samsung Media Studio.
No, no, no. This isn’t acceptable. Saving a few bucks isn’t worth taking this large of a hit in usability.
3 Stars Many nice features, but not what I wanted.
This MP3 player works very well. The buttons are a little too sensitive, but the menus and features are nicely arranged and easy to use.
I chose this particular model because it had variable playback speed. Time is very precious to me in this crazy world, and I need to listen to audio books while I do other things. Gone are the days when I can sit down and read something.
On my computer and my new DVD player I can play DVDs and up to twice the speed and still hear the audio. Unlike with analog technology, these two digital devices playback the audio with out ANY increase in pitch of the voice. In other words the actors don’t sound like Minnie Mouse when they talk, they just sound like they are fast talkers. This is great for me because I don’t get a lot of DVD viewing time either.
I was expecting the same with this MP3 player, but it is not the case. For some reason when you speed up the audio on the S3 MP3 player the pitch gets higher, so I now have Minnie Mouse reading my audio book instead of a quicker narrator.
This would be a great MP3 player if they could only change this one feature. I don’t know why they have to let the pitch increase, perhaps it was at the behest of the music industry. If anyone knows of an MP3 that increases speed without increasing pitch please let me know.
4 Stars Definitely Great For The Price
Really this product deserves about a 4.5 cause it is definitely worth the price. The Samsung S3 is so so cool in so many ways. I basically wanted to buy an ipod because I have an Apple computer. I am young but have never had or worked an mp3 player so I had no idea about any of this stuff. It sounds crazy that I’m so late but I am just now getting tired of rotating my hundreds of Cd’s in and out of my old Sony Walkman. When I looked up the prices for the ipod’s I let them go pretty quick.
OK so on to the S3, this is very compact and fits well in your pocket. So if you’re a girl with tight jeans, this is the MP3 for you because it is very slim. It holds about 1000 songs and one of the coolest features is that it comes with recordable FM radio. If you hear something on the radio that you want but don’t want to pay for and download then just record it. Only problem with this feature is that the radio reception will not always be clear and clean. It also comes with a feature I didn’t know about until I bought it, it has some cool games already inside it.
The S3 also has amazing sound quality, these are great ear buds. I put my Sony headphones into it and they have nothing on those ear buds so be sure to take care of them. They have great bass and treble but they don’t hurt your ears. It doesn’t come with a wall charger which kind of sucks cause if you’re somewhere and it dies then you are out of luck if you do not have your computer. You can charge it with the USB cord it comes with but unfortunately that can take a minute.
Really that’s the only problem I have with the S3. The battery power really isn’t 25 hours worth but more like 8 to 9 hours maybe but definitely not 25 hours. The picture is amazing and the colors are bright and vibrant but the battery life is bad. For something that holds about 1000 songs, video, Fm radio, and games it is a pretty good price.
5 Stars Best value for the buck.
Great MP3 player has a ton of features. The other brands names cost way more. I’m a cyclist and it perfect on those 3 to 4 hours training rides. Hands down the best i tried and you want be dissapointed.
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