So I got myself one of these small Samsung U3 music players that looks like a simple flash stick. Small, cute, black, and complete with earphones, an earphone reel and software, I thought this the perfect little music player. To steal a phrase and mangle it, I’m not totally lovin’ it.
It is a cute player barely bigger than a standard USB stick. The connector retracts into the player (breakage protection) and the small but slick display screen has easily read sections. It was fun to explore and no manual is required as it is so intuitive.
Getting my CDs on it proved a hurdle. The provided software does not work and I had to beg use of husband’s program for his Creative Zen player. I knew without the native software I probably could not use the “mood” functionality but wanted my music. No worries – worked a charm.
Obscure Japanese animation music locked and loaded (BGC 2, Escaflone (all), Lodoss Wars (1,2,3) ), I tried to get the earphones in to my ears and had some trouble. I have to admit I am more used to the soft earphones from my Sony Erikson phone so these hard sticks were more of a challenge.
Playing with the new toy, I explored all the different sections it offered and got the radio working both in the US and in the UK. I found ways to change how I selected my music tracks and the settings for the stick to sleep and the like.
The battery lasted at least 10 hours though I believe Samsung says it should last for 15. I was asleep for some of that playback time ;) The touch sensitive controls were too sensitive and I found myself moving around menus needlessly. Still, they aren’t buttons which is a huge plus.
You can record voice messages, get it to sleep after a period of time, preset radio stations, select music by album or artist or theme and lots more. What I haven’t figured out how to do is stop the music without turning the player off.
I have lived with this and while I can lock it, the buttons make “beep” noises when it is in my pocket for a minute until it sleeps. I can’t hook it on anywhere so can’t take it to the gym. The USB connector keeps popping out. The flashing blue light is a bit distracting. But hey – it’s small and cute!
Overall it has many positives and negatives. A big plus is the cuteness factor – I’m overlooking a lot because of it. Maybe I’ll buy those Swarovski earphones. But in summary, would I use it? Every day - it lives in my handbag!
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Can this product be eaten in an emergency?
I did nibble at it once during the flight when I thought it was a Twix so I know it is no good as a substitute for chocolate.
However, if you need more roughage in your diet, this could do the trick!
don’t understand why people waste their precious time with non-apple players
A friend of mine has an iPod and I just had to be different - friendly rivalry and all.
Plus when I fell asleep on the player, I didn’t break it like someone else I know *laughs*
I am kinda waiting for a phone which I can load movies and music on - and my code and compiling engines and everything else. Technology is almost there (and no, an iPhone doesn’t cut it because I can’t load my compiler on to it) so I figure it’s not long now!
Not sure whether you can hack and load a compiler on the iphone yet…still, the ipods and iphones are both simply amazing pieces of technology. Lots of people are very anti-Apple but honestly, they make the best stuff out there. You can get movies on the iphone now you know…
Yep - iPhone is getting closer to what I want. In Japan I saw the closest thing yet which was a phone with a huge screen, fold-out keyboard, and lots of memory.
My ideal computer/phone should be coming soon! *grins*
I can’t understand why you would want to load a compiler on your phone beyond the novelty factor. Thats what laptops are for.
Seriously it would be torture to write code on any phone. I loaded Ruby on my iPhone but that was just to see it work. I suppose I could write Ruby to perform some sort of function on the phone that might be useful but nothing that couldn’t be achieved through a web service or on an actual machine connecting to the phone (since it has working ssh).
Hey Tony…it’s because Judith is a big geek. Hahahaha! There’s no way on earth I could even code HTML on anything that small. It would be hellish.
*laughs*
Dear goodness gracious me - I *am* a geek, aren’t I?
And who said HTML? Maybe I was talking C#…?
Mind, I’m really lusting after one of those small Sony Vaio laptops and Lisa’s endorsement of the Asus has me wanting one of those…
I wonder…