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Samsung Bumps YP-T9(B) to 8GB

By: Jenn K. Lee on December 18, 2006 7:15 PM

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What digital audio player these days isn't available in an 8GB model?

If you asked us yesterday, we would've said that Samsung's YP-T9 and T9B are one of the only major hitters not playing in the big boys' park with the Creative Zen V Plus, Apple iPod Nano, and SanDisk Sansa e280. Ask us the same question today, however, and we'd say that the park is about to get a bit more crowded.

Unfortunately, it seems that only the Bluetooth-toting T9B will get to play. Information is a bit sketchy, but it looks like the Bluetooth-less T9 (the one available in the U.S.) may be keeping the benches warm with all the other devices that max out at 4GB.

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Comments

slaughterMYdaughter on December 18, 2006 7:41 PM

*waits for a 8gb k5*

pgh1969pa on December 19, 2006 1:19 AM

Whoop-tee-doo! The Asia-Pacific region gets an 8GB, Bluetooth T9 and what about N. America? If this is another product *not* intend for *worldwide* release, Samsung can put their T9 where the sun doesn't shine. Their competitors offer products of 8GB capacity already on a *global* scale. If they intend to continue to offer more relavant product elsewhere, it would be better if they simply withdraw from the N. American DAP market. That way, they can concentrate on the markets they feel are more important and stop teasing the rest of us.

Someone will eventually be forward thinking enough to offer bluetooth DAPs to the EU, N. America, and other non-Asia Pacific markets. To that company, I wish success. Besides, Samsung has yet to resolve the slloooowww sync issues with non-Asia Pacific T9s. My understanding is they released a ROM update for the home market

pbman on December 26, 2006 6:27 PM

any news on the release date of this model in the UK

chik3108 on January 3, 2007 7:31 PM

wow! this is rlly nice lookin, rlly sleek any more info on it???

pgh1969pa on January 7, 2007 8:15 PM

Samsung just announced the bluetooth version of the T9 is headed to N. America:

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/01/07/samsung.k3.and.q1p.ssd/

some indian guy in the us on March 20, 2007 12:45 AM

my dad was in korea for business and he decided to pick me up one for my b day. Its extremely light-weight, and does music, video, text, has some games (a little better then phone quality), records voice, and radio, and the whole blue tooth thing.

I would recommend this over the ipod any day, even though i like a good ipod, this is just superior.

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