Mysterious Samsung YP-K5 DAP

Samsung

By: Jenn K. Lee on August 15, 2006 7:56 AM

There’s no evidence of it now, but a press release about the IFA 2006 (a huge consumer electronics show in Berlin) on Samsung’s German site used to include pictures and information about the company’s new YP-K5 digital audio player. Our friends at Akihabara News got a hold of a few pictures before they were pulled from the site, and we snagged the cached press info and ran it through Babel Fish for more details.

The YP-K5 measures 3.85 x 1.87 x 0.74 inches; comes in 1, 2, and 4GB varieties; supports MP3, Ogg, ASF, and WMA files; and utilizes Samsung’s 3D Sound System DNSE (Digital Natural Sound Engine). The more interesting features are what seem to be a large touch screen and some kind of integrated speaker the size of the device itself.

Akihabara News is reporting that the player has just been released in Korea, but with no mention of it on Samsung’s Korean site and the other info coming from Germany, we don’t know what to think. Regardless, it looks pretty cool.

[Samsung (German) via Akihabara News]

Comments

Utew on August 15, 2006 8:23 PM

Gorgeous! I really like this.. looks like one upping a touch-screen iPod here.. give us a video version with a wide-format LCD.. and this would be a big Ya-Hoo!! Now this is more like it.. if this starts a new trend, then I'm all for it... and a pink version for Jenn ;-)

I hope this little beauty makes it to U.S. shores....

Gow on August 15, 2006 8:47 PM

Ditto!

slaughterMYdaghter on August 16, 2006 1:54 PM

WOW,and i thought the sony NW-A1000 was hard to see.

curious on August 18, 2006 12:17 AM

Hmmm, it certainly is a looker - it somehow manages to look both
sleek and sophisticated...definitely something that you don't currently find in the market. Kudos for Samsung for coming up with something innovative - it's about time that we start to see something different...

I just hope that the sound quality of the speaker is as good as its size...
Are they going to release it in U.S. or just in Korea?

BC on October 30, 2006 11:42 PM

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!! THE BASS-ENHANCED EARPHONE IS SO VALUABLE. AND THE INTEGRATED SPEAKER-EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT REMOVABLE-SHOWS OFF ITS GREAT SOUND!! IT DOESN'T DISTORT, OR CRACK, BUT VERY NATURAL AND SLEEK. I URGE YOU GUYS TO BUY THIS GADGET!!!

Tye on December 5, 2006 2:17 PM

sexy...very very sexy

lynn on December 31, 2006 12:45 PM

awsome product- got it for Christmas- the build in speaker sounds good with all types of musics and the freebee headphones are even better- some fetures that are a pian is you cannot upload photos to match the albums like an Ipod but none the less- this is much better!

anyone have any ideas for acceosries?? seems like slim pickins out there..

mark on January 18, 2007 4:33 PM

this is the best mp3 player on the market today, forget the i pods, and the creatives which i have owned the both, this is in a class of its own, musically this is the loudest and the best sounding that i have ever listened to, also the added feature of the built in speaker is very genius, my hat goes out to the guys and girls at samsung well done, sloany

Eileen on July 4, 2009 9:27 AM

Any idea where to get its Bass-enhanced earphones? I've got 2 of 'em but both are spoilt..

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