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SAMSUNG YP55V Yepp Portable Digital Audio Player 256MB Built-in Flash Memory / Supports MP3 & WMA audio / Backlit LCD / Voice recorder function / Digital Radio FM Tuner |  |
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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | keeps going
It plays 30 -40 hours per week on a regular basis in a factory-and sometimes more than that . 1 AAA batery goes for about 8 hours, -never had a problem in the 15 months that I owned it. Can download on average of 54-64 songs, depending on how long the songs are. Very trustworthy item
| 5 | Today | The IPOD Hype
This Samsung yepp player is the real deal so i just had to opine-
if you have a pc - the ipod is not for you. it requires high speed usb ports and several costly accessories for a trendy and bulky item.
i've owned this YEPP for almost a year and thought the IPOD with eye tunes was supposed to be great - so needless to say i bought one and the first wouldn't charge; the second charged and let me download songs - then would not stay charged for more than a couple hrs.
the third one just shut down one day after i disconnected it during a DO NOT DISCONNECT phase. it would not even do a hard reset.
stick with the yepp - it works with media players (yeah - i know WMP can be funky sometimes) but if you have a late model PC and want to copy files quickly...run to this and don let the Apple fall on your head. I have NEVER written a review before so I hope that this at least helps someone. My wife won't beleive me because she is SAVING UP for an IPOD.
disgusted in DC | 5 | Today | bad finish...
The sound is great, with the surround sound, but there are two things that really pisses me off. 1. I bought this, just opened it, held it in my hands, looked into the display... What? Is there dust inside the display? How did they do that? U gotta crack it up to fix that. 2. The unit scratches easily, like all Yepp units. These are the cons, but if U dont care about how the player looks, U can buy this as a great buy. | 3 | Today | Great little mp3 player!
Wow, I chose this model over all the other mp3 players offered on Amazon because of the reviews. It's very WYSIWYG, small, functional, portable, and for the best 256mb player for the buck. It comes with everything you need, including a battery. The carry case is economical like the player, small and not much room for anything else, I end up winding my ear buds around the closing flap to keep all my things together. It feels like a sturdy player, I love that you twist the end to move between songs and the bright blue scrolling display, everything makes it feel like a quality product.It ofcourse comes with so-so headphones that I don't recommend using, and you really don't have to install anything, you just plug and drop things in. I use it mainly for work, it's plenty loud and the sound quality is great, all the dynamics and you get a very rich and full volume out of a tiny thing. Battery life is better than expected, a new AAA will last you as advertised 15 or so hours, I recommend rechargeables for environment's sake. The few buttons you see do all the work, you do need to flip through the manual to get a feel for the unusal functions of each button, particularly the volume slider which does most of the work. If you have big big fingers it might take some more effort, I have small hands and I still need to use my nail to dig in sometimes...you do have to remember that you are buying a very very small product! It dissapears in my hands and easily into pockets, it's very cute and it's not orange like you see in the detail photos, but just silver. The FM radio wasn't great from where I tried it, so I can't say much about it yet, voice recording is so so but I don't see myself using that function any time soon. Recording/encoding capabilities though is pretty nice. In all I recommend it to everyone who's looking to not spend too much on a HD player like the 20GB iRiver iHP-120 which is the best rival to an iPod out there just yet. I think the only thing left to be desired is a FF function and it wouldn't hurt to include one or two more buttons in future models. | 5 | Today | Great = Simple functionality
Myself, I like this player because of its simple design. The player doubles as a USB jump drive. First this means that you can store data other than MP3s on it for transport to other computers. Second, it means that you do not need to use the management software. This makes the player compatable with Windows as well as Mac and Linux (my own choice). You can also share with others without the need for them to have the manufacturer's software on their PC. The line in record and FM record are nice functions also. Of course the ear buds are not great, but then no player near this price will include nice headphones. The only truely bad feature of this player is the included case. It is terrible. Small complaint though! | 5 | Today | Exc. battery life, OS compatibility; poor software, ergonom
I have researched many players, and I own two iRiver slim MP3 CD players. The battery life is excellent! I understand from other posters that there are troubles syncing with the proprietary software. I use standalone programs from both Linux and Windows. In both cases, you just hook up to any USB port and use the Yepp like a hard drive, writing mp3 and wave files to/from it. No problem. Player has been sturdy and reliable (the headphone cord is falling apart, but no big deal), but if it gets knocked, even lightly, while playing, it will turn off, losing your play location. The controller software really sucks compared to iRiver's. This software rates about a 1 if iRiver is rated 10. You have very little ability to adjust things. Even though the battery life is excellent, you can not pause or stop the player for over 30 seconds without it turning off and losing your location. If you get a phone call, you have to let it keep playing or it will turn off. There is also no ability to easily navigate through the filesystem so that you can sub-group your tracks (with 256 M of mp3 material, I would think that everybody would want to sub-group their material). I use my player mainly for audio books which I write in mp3 format. Users who don't intend to use their player for audio books probably want to skip the rest of my review. The main frustration with this player is the difficulty of navigation within a track. It was easier to navigate with a cassette tape in 1985 than with this thing. Once the player turns off, it has no memory of where you were in the track. This will happen if you stop/pause for > 30 s (10 seconds if you use the default setting!). As many reviewers have said, the ff/rew mechanism is very hard to operate with one hand. It is extremely unresponsive. It doesn't start "going" until you hold it for 2 s., if you accidentally let go before then, it goes to the beginning/end of the track and loses your location. The ff/rew speed is not adjustable. For VBR (variable bit rate) MP3s, it goes EXTREMELY SLOW for about 2:00, then it jumps by about 5:00 every microsecond. It is impossible to ff/rew about 4:00 with less than 5 attempts. For CBR (constant bit rate) MP3s, it goes at 10s/click--- very slow. This player would really be excellent if Samsung knew how to make operating software. The iRiver MP3 CD players I have suffer from none of these ergonomic or controller software problems, but they have hardware problems instead :( . UPDATE (2004-05-26): There are DEFINITELY better MP3 players available now. Because of this, I'm reducing my rating from 3 to 2 stars. Note that a player that supports USB-2 or Firewire will transfer files in a small fraction of the time that this thing takes. | 3 | Today | need the use manual in english
I have only the technival manual in Chinese I need it in English. can you mail it to my e'mail: tafanelr@hotmail.com I am ready to pay | 5 | Today | Amazing sound, I love it, but get the new firmware!
Before reading my review, if you already got one of this, get the new 5.7 firmware for folder navigation, playlists and lyrics support. Just go to google.com and search for "YP-55 firmware" This is the third MP3 player I own and I must say I love it. I researched a lot of MP3 players before buying it and I'm confident it must be one of the best flash based players on the market. Sound is amazing and loud, and the YP-55 feels like a quality executive item, it is not a flimsy toy like mi previous iRiver. The WOW function is incredible, it nicely spatializes the sound in your head making it sound pretty amazing. You must hear it to believe it. You can configure everything from the menus. USB transfers are quite speedy, a lot faster than my previous players and my digital camera. Battery life is quite good, too. May be because it doesn't consume power from the battery when downloading songs, it is powered by the USB port when doing this. Package includes a nice and small USB adapter for direct connect for those times you don't want to carry around the USB cable. Out of the box it does not support playlists or folder navigation, but it does with the new firmware 5.7. Overall I am pretty happy with the YP-55 and the only con I can find is the included headphones. Like every other MP3 player, it comes with low-cost earbuds. Sound is adequate but not great. Once you get better earphones, there is a HUGE difference in sound. | 5 | Today | not as good as I expected
Some reviewers below give their credits to YP-55V just for its small compact size, mp3 and fm capability, which is not specific at all and could apply to most of the flash-drive mp3 players in market nowadays.
I was in market for a mp3/fm player for my jogging. I bought it at Bestbuy for $139 plus tax basically for it's cheaper than iRiver iFP-390T which is selling for $169AR plus tax in the same store.
Pro:
1 Cheaper than iRiver iFP-390T.
2 YP-55V uses 1 AAA battery which makes it smaller, while iRiver 390T uses 1 AA battery.
3 YP-55V has an aluminum case, comparing to the plastic one of iRiver 390T. But I don¡¯t know if this makes YP-55V stronger. Those manufacturers should conduct some devastating experiments to find out this.
Con:
1 The quality and build of the earphone is so-so, worse than the one comes with iRiver 390T (a Sennheiser MX300).
2 YP-55V¡¯s playback time is shorter (up to 15 hrs) comparing to 390t (up to 24 hrs). It¡¯s a trade-off for the AAA size battery.
3 Multilanguage support is not as it is claimed. The truth is, Samsung don¡¯t have a universal firmware version yet to support all claimed languages, i.e., English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. English is supported in each version of firmware. For other language, you have to have the right firmware. The one comes with my item (ver. 1.500)only support English and Korean, rather than Chinese. I have to flash the firmware to a version of 1.511 to gain Simplified Chinese support. In order to get Traditional Chinese support, you need a Hong Kong version firmware (ver. 1.52). The latest version (ver. 5.7) added some interesting functions such as subfolder viewing/playing, but the language support of this version is poor. It took me several hours to search the Internet to figure out what¡¯s going on, to get the right firmware, to learn how to flash/update the firmware. I¡¯d like to share my knowledge here: How to update firmware for YP-55V
1 Download the right firmware.
2 Install it by running setup.exe
3 (the most tricky part) hold down the play/stop button while you connect the player with the computer via USB, which will turn the player into a ¡°recovery mode¡± necessary to update.
4 run the ¡°YP-55 Update¡± from Start->Programs->Samsung YP 55.
Neither the manual nor Samsung¡¯s website are helpful at all for all of these. It¡¯s a huge waste of consumer¡¯s time due to the manufacturer¡¯s negligence. | 3 | Today | Great Machine-Lousy Doc
after I spent a day figuring out what the manual and the CD didn't explain I fell in love with the machine. I never could get "yepp studio" to work, but I have windows Media Player and its adequate. The SRS and WOW sound modes are pretty good with 64kb WMA files which give me +/- 5 hours of music. The headphones are free, but I have Sony noise cancelling ones which are excellent. The combination of the yepp and my Sonys are much better than my CD payer was. If you can get 4-6 hours of music into a package this small it is worth putting the effort into the startup. the human factors and controls are a little quirky, but maqke sense once you figure them out. I'm sold, my portable CD player has been retired. | 4 | Today |
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