Samsung has always occupied a grey area in the tech world. With neither the establishment of Sony, nor the consumer-friendliness of Apple, the South Korean company's products have nevertheless garnered impressive reviews from us.
In spite of its amazing netbooks and televisions, one area Samsung has lacked in is MP3 players.
It's never quite cracked the lucrative market, although its MP3-playing phones have shown some headway recently.
Samsung's range of MP3 players - known as Yepp to Apple's iPod and Sony's Walkman - have shown some fairly hefty improvements, though. 2006's Z5F's interface was reportedly designed by Paul Mercer - he of iPod user interface fame - and it went on to sell over 1 million units.
Samsung's latest, the YP-R1, is competing directly with the likes of Creative's new Zen X-Fi 2 and Apple's most recent iteration of the iPod Nano.
Like the Creative player, Samsung's includes a touch screen, and, like Apple's, it's got an FM radio. But is it enough to keep Samsung in the MP3 player game?
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robopirate5000
January 8th 2010
1. At first the Samsung YP-R1 was great. I'd hold it close to me every second we were together. We would talk all through the day and hold each other all through the night. I'd confide my deepest secrets to it and samsung yp-r1 was always there to listen. But things soon took a bad turn. We started spending less time together and samsung yp-r1 was coming home later at night smelling like booze and strippers. I was scared when ever i brought it up Samsung yp-r1 started to get violent. I had to wear makeup and glasses to work just to cover the marks on my face it left behind. I tried to break it off but I noticed Samsung yp-r1 following me to work, stalking me at the grocery store... no matter where i was i could feel its eyes watching me. I started getting these weird phone calls saying "I've seen you with the IPOD YOU DIRTY #$%^&". I cant take it anymore.
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