Samsung is a huge Company producing cameras, cell phones, TV's, printers, DVD player and other electronics. Finally the Samsung has decided to please the youth with a portable media player. I bet Samsung did a pretty good job with this player because it's the first one. They called it P2 and made a real PMP monster out of it: giving it almost all the features that a person might want from a personal player.First of all its main function is to playback media for the user. Believe me; everything is great in this concern: Samsung P2 supports MP3 and WMA formats which should be enough for now. Concerning video playback the P2 supports WMV9, MPEG4, SVI formats; finally you can look through you JPEG gallery on its 3 inch display. In addition to all that Samsung gives you the possibility to listen to FM radio too.
Additional features include Alarm clock, World clock, Calendar and File viewer. Filer viewer will allow you to view and delete files without a PC.
I should mention that it features a 3 inch touch screen display with 16 to 9 ratio (widescreen). Samsung knows how to make good displays and the P2's is not an exception: very bright but won’t drain your battery's power. Speaking of its Li-Poly battery; it is pretty powerful, because as Testfreaks.com says it can power Samsung P2 for 30 hours of audio playback and 5 hours of video playback.
One more important feature for a PMP is its storage capacity. The P2 comes with 4GB or 8GB of built in flash memory. It won't hold as much as a 60GB iPod would but has two advantages here: flash memory is not as vulnerable as HDD plus it supports more media formats and has a bigger screen except for iPod Touch.Connectivity is what makes a PMP the best man's friend. As for P2 it has its advantages and disadvantages. First of all it can be connected to computer via USB port, which is not a surprise anymore. Bluetooth has become another important function of a PMP. Exchanging media, contacts, listening music in Bluetooth headset etc. is very easy with Samsung P2. Besides, it can connect to two Bluetooth devices simultaneously. Its disadvantage is that it does not have Wi-Fi built in.
Generally speaking it is a good device for good money. You can get it for about $150-160 which is half of the price of iPod Touch. However, it's up to you to decide what PMP will be yours or if you even want one.
