Home > Consumer Reviews > Samsung YP-U3JQB - MP3 Player - 2GB - Black

I chose this as my first MP3 player mainly so I could listen to the radio on the train. Unfortunately, radio reception out in the sticks in Hampshire is not great, particularly when you get onto the train. The earphone cord serves as an aerial. To get reception you often have to unwind the cord and hold the unit away from your body!

On the plus side: loading music is easy using the software supplied and actually you can also drag and drop MP3 files in Windows Explorer (XP). A note of caution: if your files are unnamed (not often the case but it can happen), the unit won't recognise them when loaded and you risk overwriting them next time you load unnamed files. To be safe, you have to both give the music tracks a name and also name the MP3 files - a bit laborious.

I've had no problem with the touch controls; sound quality is excellent and it's compact and smart. It would have helped if the earphone cable winder had been a tad bigger.

My son bought this with his hard-earned pocket money and I agree with other reviewers that in most respects, it's a very nice MP3 player. It allows you to resume listening at the same point in the middle of a track after switching the player off for a while, you can search for tracks by Artist, Album, Genre, etc, fast-forwarding through tracks is fairly quick and it has quite good FM radio reception.

There are two problems with it which might be significant for some purchasers. One is the touch-sensitive controls. The problem isn't so much that they're touch-sensitive as the lack of any physical features (lumps or bumps) to let you find the "button spots" by touch. You actually have to look at the player to know where to touch it. Consequently, blind people, people whose eyesight is poor, anyone wishing to use it in the dark and anyone wishing to use it while driving should avoid this player. You might also find it difficult to use while exercising if you need to concentrate on the exercise rather than looking at the player.

My second gripe is the sheer awkwardness of Samsung's proprietary software, which you're supposed to install to transfer tracks between your PC and the player. They've managed the extraordinary feat of setting it up so that only the administrator of a PC can use the software. This limits the ability of a child to use the player if you're understandably unwilling to let him or her be an administrator of your PC. You can use straightforward drag-and-drop with Windows Explorer but the player tries to use Samsung's software by default. Why Samsung should have intentionally made their software difficult to use really baffles me.

I can warmly recommend this as a 5-star player for adults with good eyesight who don't want to use it while driving or exercising. For the future, a little more commonsense and a little less attention to Design (with a capital D) of both the player and the software would make it 5-star for everyone else too.

great mp3 player and good for a memory stick, great touch pad like the design
only downsides is that you need windows media player 10 and on mine im having trouble connecting to the computer using the usb. but it will still charge. only a problem if i want to use it as a memory stick

Had previous experience of the Samsung YP 1Gb model. That was great sturdily built and proper click buttons. It's still retained the drag and drop abilities on Windows but the build quality is very poor.

I couldn't quite understand what the other reviewers were saying until I experienced it's touch sensitivity. It's buttons are just touch sensitive with no 'feel' to them, they are woefully designed and overly sensitive.

This is the second YP player I have purchased from Samsung, the first was the 1gb k3jzb (oh my God) try to avoid these products, both have same quirks, they stick on repeat mode without any prompting; the shuffle is limited to about 10 tracks; It decides to switch itself off when it feels like. I also had a large blue line running vertically through the display. When I returned the player to Samsung - Under Warranty - I was greeted with the most negative "customer" services team you could ever encounter. They informed me it was customer damaged and would not honour the warranty. Without sounding too bitter be very careful about purchasing Samsung MP3 players, especially the YP range. Amazon are very reliable though Cheers