Comments on: Review – Samsung YP-Q1 digital media player http://james.cridland.net/blog/review-samsung-yp-q1-digital-media-player/ From a radio futurologist - where broadcast radio and new platforms collide. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:26:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sabbath-black (real name btw) http://james.cridland.net/blog/review-samsung-yp-q1-digital-media-player/comment-page-1/#comment-35086 sabbath-black (real name btw) Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:15:53 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=898#comment-35086 well i like it i mean the pad is very un predictable as quoted before the lock could be moved not that i have problems with the off(not any more that is)the games are a little weird being that there pretty much a useless function could be some to download as well it skips when i use the custom equalizer so i cant hear what changes but i like the sound really plays the oldies well alot of players dont use the ear to ear function(well) so i call it shows files appropriately not just a jumbled mess fells well and i do like the pad and being able to put pics as backgrounds rotating them shrinking them to fit is nice i have watched full movies on it and it didnt bother me even plays cams well id give it a 7/10 if not 7.5 well i like it i mean the pad is very un predictable as quoted before the lock could be moved not that i have problems with the off(not any more that is)the games are a little weird being that there pretty much a useless function could be some to download as well it skips when i use the custom equalizer so i cant hear what changes but i like the sound really plays the oldies well alot of players dont use the ear to ear function(well) so i call it shows files appropriately not just a jumbled mess fells well and i do like the pad and being able to put pics as backgrounds rotating them shrinking them to fit is nice i have watched full movies on it and it didnt bother me even plays cams well id give it a 7/10 if not 7.5

]]> By: ant http://james.cridland.net/blog/review-samsung-yp-q1-digital-media-player/comment-page-1/#comment-34833 ant Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:48:10 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=898#comment-34833 Haviung a bit of a mare with this unit myself- a very kind Christmas gift, but the iPlayer integration is completely tied up in MS's frankly anti-user DRM system, and the lack of Linux compatibility is very disappointing. I'm also finding it difficult to get an XP system to recognise it, though a Vista system is happy as Larry. Which is nice, but I'm not a Vista user (Vista was so awful when I first used it I simply can't bring myself to return to it). Overall I'm not yet completely happy with the device- the buttons don't behave in a very predictable way, the wierd lock/power switch is easily mis-used, and yet another USB cable (different to all previous proprietary Samsung cables!) is not something I have ever coveted. Haviung a bit of a mare with this unit myself- a very kind Christmas gift, but the iPlayer integration is completely tied up in MS’s frankly anti-user DRM system, and the lack of Linux compatibility is very disappointing. I’m also finding it difficult to get an XP system to recognise it, though a Vista system is happy as Larry. Which is nice, but I’m not a Vista user (Vista was so awful when I first used it I simply can’t bring myself to return to it).

Overall I’m not yet completely happy with the device- the buttons don’t behave in a very predictable way, the wierd lock/power switch is easily mis-used, and yet another USB cable (different to all previous proprietary Samsung cables!) is not something I have ever coveted.

]]> By: Samsung YP-Q1 - user reviews « On Buying an MP3 Player http://james.cridland.net/blog/review-samsung-yp-q1-digital-media-player/comment-page-1/#comment-34742 Samsung YP-Q1 - user reviews « On Buying an MP3 Player Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:59:53 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=898#comment-34742 [...] From James Cridland’s blog: [...] [...] From James Cridland’s blog: [...]

]]> By: Andy http://james.cridland.net/blog/review-samsung-yp-q1-digital-media-player/comment-page-1/#comment-34721 Andy Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:28:00 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=898#comment-34721 I never had a problem with the combined power-off/lock slide. The power goes off only when you hold it in place for a few seconds, and the same design has been used in Creative Zen as well. I never had a problem with the combined power-off/lock slide. The power goes off only when you hold it in place for a few seconds, and the same design has been used in Creative Zen as well.

]]> By: Ben http://james.cridland.net/blog/review-samsung-yp-q1-digital-media-player/comment-page-1/#comment-34586 Ben Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:43:21 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/?p=898#comment-34586 Its always irked me that Samsung devices are so tied to Windows. Having looked around a while back I was attracted by one of their previous products which even had Bluetooth (wow!), but was put off my exactly the same problems: silly non-USB ports and lack of Mac and Linux support. Its not difficult to make things that work on other platforms (although Sony had trouble with this for a long while, insisting that ATRAC was the future, laughably), and it wasn't difficult for me to find something that did (Cowon) and pay for it. Its always irked me that Samsung devices are so tied to Windows. Having looked around a while back I was attracted by one of their previous products which even had Bluetooth (wow!), but was put off my exactly the same problems: silly non-USB ports and lack of Mac and Linux support.

Its not difficult to make things that work on other platforms (although Sony had trouble with this for a long while, insisting that ATRAC was the future, laughably), and it wasn’t difficult for me to find something that did (Cowon) and pay for it.

]]>