Samsung to Announce YP-Q1 at IFA
As with so many players these days the info on Samsung's new player is available before it's actually announced. The new player looks like some sort of futuristic T9 and the selling points here are decent capacity and codec support.
The Q1 will have a 2.4" screen and a UI that looks like that of the P2. It will of course do video in form of WMV and some sort of MPEG4. Audio wise it's above average with support for both FLAC and Ogg Vorbis and it will also come with Samsungs DNSe 3.0 sound enhancement technology. One piece of good news for radio fans is that it also features an RDS radio. it will come in 4, 8 and 16GB capacities and be available in pink, silver, white and black. Pricing and release date is still unknown.
Comments
Tamama on August 27, 2008 12:23 PM
Looks cool, is the blue ring only on the black model?
Utew on August 27, 2008 12:37 PM
Vertical and fugly...
FLAC is nice, not being landscape orientation is not, it now looks like they are copying the Sony players (which are NOT fugly btw).
P2 replacement where are you? =(
Fiq on August 27, 2008 12:47 PM
@ Utew
I agree this looks very similiar to the sony mp3 players..
WindSpear on August 27, 2008 1:06 PM
enzo forgot to mean that the player come in white aswell. and that player apears to have a micro sd card (some french gets cut off. slang
lebellium on August 27, 2008 1:17 PM
It doesn't have a micro sd card
It doesn't replace the P2
It has a "High Quality Voice Recording" tanks to "Noise Reduction Technology"
And a "Best Sound Quality : DNSe 3.0 evolved from DNSe 2.0
(Audio Upscale, High Quality Playback Speed Control, Various Concert Hall Presets, DNSe Sharing,
Automatic DNSe Recommendation)"
Aswin on August 27, 2008 2:22 PM
man samsung did well having their own design. now they have jumped into copy cat b and wagon.. they look too similar to sown nwz82x series.. ya a funky blue ring is their but its too similar.. sorry copy cat work.
Sony is best in sound quality but samsung is not far behind. sony, cowon and samsung in tat order for SQ(but all sound gr8. I liked the t9 design a lot.. hope this does not replace t10.
MFG on August 27, 2008 2:50 PM
If: OGG + FLAC + SDHC/MicroSDHC then I will go for it.
lebellium on August 27, 2008 3:12 PM
There is no SD slot.
I asked my Samsung contact.
And I have the internal confidential documents
Jay on August 27, 2008 7:17 PM
This is a disappoint. Its style doesn't keep up with the latest designs like sony, apple, archos, cowon.... No touch screen, and they are still releasing less than 8gb of memory... They should have focused on something of a p3... Won't pick this up for sure.
WindSpear on August 27, 2008 7:22 PM
okay monsiuer. then why do they say. "un micro" pourqoui les gens dans genmp3 on dit ca...i mean....yaaaa wazz the micro supposed to be....
nywytboy68 on August 27, 2008 8:27 PM
It does look like a Sony but the addition of a RDS tuner and microSD slot make it a very nice attraction. Here's a (I hope) link to the translated page from FireFox: http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmp3.generationmp3.com%2F2008%2F08%2F27%2Fifa-08-samsung-presente-son-nouveau-baladeur-q1%2F&langpair=fr|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8
lebellium on August 28, 2008 4:32 AM
I'm french and Samsung moderator on gmp3. So....
Please stop with your micro SD slot!
THERE IS NO SD SLOT!
In french "micro" = "mike" for voice recording.
kredig on August 28, 2008 8:24 PM
i will get one probably. the most important thing about the player is the sound quality and not if it has a sd slot or not. i mean who needs a play which has more than 8gb of music? that are like 1000 songs! and seriously, who needs a mp3 player with videos daily...
Sue on August 28, 2008 9:47 PM
yay maybe an upgrade for my t9? i never jumped on the p2 bandwagon because it's just too big, despite all the tasty features.
Ash on August 30, 2008 11:42 PM
I actually think it looks snazzy and I personally do N-O-T like the Sony look.
Danny on September 3, 2008 3:58 PM
Samsung made a new yepp and Q1 is real PMP. It's highly advanced features on it. I like that it's almost format available; mp3/wma/ogg/flac/jpg/bmp/gif/png/mp4/wav/wmv/txt...etc. Also, It has good battery life for 30hr audio playback and 4hr for video. Cool blue diamond.
Hamster on November 5, 2008 4:01 PM
I just bought the 16 Gig edition of the Samsung YP-Q1JEB and I have to tell you folks - WOW!!! The sound is freaking amazing. I've had a SanDisk e280 and a Sony S639 and I have to say this has to be the best sound available on ANY mp3 player; PERIOD. I dumped the cheesy earbuds and I'm using my Sennheiser PXC 100 headset(used same on my other units so sound comparison would be equal). It isn't an upgrade to the P2 but it's still insanely good and most importantly; it kicks Apples sound on ANY of their players.
dima on November 7, 2008 2:36 PM
Bought one today, 16GB. The store got it only yesterday. Upgraded to firmware 1.13. The sound is amazing. But DNSe doesn't work with OGG files. My YP-Z5 works great when playing OGG with EQ... Hopefully Samsung will fix it in the next firmware (will try FLAC later). Would be nice to have volume buttons on the side and SD slot too. Physically it feels pretty cheap compared to my Z5, but sounds much better with EQ and bass enhancements. I'm using Koss PortaPro headphones.
Bleh on November 24, 2008 3:42 PM
Looks pretty fugly to me. It's an affordable alternative to the 16GB P2 though.
schulta on December 16, 2008 7:16 AM
its awesome, i just bought one, havent got it yet, but it looks awesome, only problem is it has to have software and i dont live in england so i dont get the special features
alex on December 26, 2008 7:51 AM
I have the black one of this samsung. It is very nice and slim, the black and blue look awesome together and its very easy to use.
if your thinking of buying it you should its great :)
Dan on February 25, 2009 5:34 AM
It is really nice. Can't see much by that picture, but do some browsing. One of the nicest I've ever seen.
It does the things I require so I picked up a 4GB. I do not regret it.