Samsung YP-T7Z 1 GB Digital Audio Player

by Samsung

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• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 1.5 x 2.4 inches ; 1.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007M611I
• Item model number: YP-T7Z
• Batteries: 1 AA batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Samsung's sleek and compact YP-T7Z digital music player holds 1 GB of data for up to 250 of your favorite songs (4 MB songs at 128 kbps). Plus you can transfer and store digital pictures and view them on the vivid color display. It also features a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 10 hours, enhanced 3D sound, ultrafast USB 2.0 file transfers, and simple navigation. It's one of the first players to be fully compliant with Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10 secure music format that is used by such online music services as Napster. The compact YP-T7Z plays MP3, Secure WMA, Janus WMA, and open-source Ogg Vorbis formats and includes a built-in FM tuner and integrated voice recorder. You can also record, encode and store MP3s or uncompressed WAV files from a variety of sources to the YP-T7's hard drive--no PC required. And it doubles as a standard hard drive, enabling you to store or transfer files of any type. The intuitive navigation system and color interface makes it effortless to find any song. The YP-T7Z supports JPEG image files, which can be viewed on the crisp color LCD. What's in the Box MP3 player, a neck strap, a direct-connect USB adapter, a carrying case, stereo earphones, a USB cable, an installation CD, an in-line encoding cable, a user's manual, and warranty information.

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Product Description

The Samsung YP-T7Z Portable Audio Player offers an incredibly portable way to enjoy your digital audio and video. The color LCD displays 65,000 colors for vibrant, colorful JPEG images. The amazingly small body with the sizable screen make it easier to carry your favorite pictures, text and audio around with you anywhere. It's also a clock, alarm, FM tuner and even equalizer tools. This next-generation portable package delivers the ultimate combination in portability and functionality. USB 2.0 interface WMA DRM Durable magnesium/aluminum body 10 hours battery life with the rechargeable battery Dimensions(WxHxD) - 37.3 x 62.5 x 14.7 mm (1.4 x 2.46 x 0.57) Silver

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A tiny, stylish, powerful little player., May 21, 2005

By 

Hesper23 "Grad student" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung YP-T7Z 1 GB Digital Audio Player (Electronics)

[[ Pro ]]
WINDOWS COMPATIBLE: If you are using Windows XP, you can plug the player in using the USB cable and instantly begin to drag and drop the files. There's no need to install anything.

HOW IT LOOKS: As other reviewers have mentioned, the YP-T7Z is tiny and light. The display screen is about 1/2 the size of the player, and the player itself is about the size of a large eraser, in other words, it's adorable.

SPACE: 1 GB, it can double as a flash drive. This is excellent if you want to transfer movie files from 1 computer to another. Currently I have 226 songs saved, with 70MB to spare.

FUNCTIONS: Impressive. This player is packed to the brim with functions. There's FM radio, voice recording, playlist creation, text viewer, and image viewer. The player also doubles as a calendar/clock--just like today's cellphones. Under "setting >> display >> languages," you can select to view the player in a range of languages, including chinese (S and T), French, German...even Hungarian. This is a really cool function if you want to show the player to your grandmother, who can only read Chinese.

For a college student like me, the "voice recording" function is particularly useful (when I'm not listening to music or the radio). In my experiments, I was able to pick up perfect voice recordings from 1 end of the house to the other. The voice quality was also pure--no static/weird sounds.

FM radio is excellent. When I set the frequency to "high," it picked up many stations around my city that I didn't even know existed. It has 20 presets, which is more than enough for most people, I imagine.

SOUND: Awesome sound quality, especially if you have a good headphone.

NAVIGATION: Very very easy.

TRANSFER: On USB 2.0, the songs transfer almost instantly. So fast. On a slower USB (like the one on my laptop), a full album takes about 2 minutes.

EARBUDS: The earbuds are ligh gray (setting them apart from the white iPods) and are fairly comfortable after putting on the black sleeve/thingy.

BELT STRAP/NECK STRAP: the belt strap is clear plastic, and goes on securely over pants. The neck strap is pretty ugly though (it's a wire wrapped in a clear plastic).

[[ CON ]]

BATTERY LIFE: 10 hours (or so they claim). It feels more like 8 hours to me, but don't quote me on that. I'm having to charge the batter every 2-3 days which is a minor inconvenience. It takes me about 3 hours to fully recharge the battery, which is also a minor annoyance.

PRICE: This player is a bit pricey for a 1G device, so shop around the internet for the best price.

[[ SUMMARY ]]

I love my little Samsung. It's ingeniously constructed, pretty, and powerful. I would recommend the YP-T7Z to anyone who's looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous iPod.

[[ EDIT as of Dec. 24, 2005 ]]
I've had this player for close to year now, and it's working fine. The earphones broke, so I got a new pair. Now I realize that you can get even better sound quality out of the player if you have a good pair of earphones. Once, when I accidently dropped it, the screen froze. I resolved this problem by pressing the "reset" problem. I recently took the player to China, and found that I had no trouble charging it using the Chinese electrical voltage.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fixed My freeze up Problem!, February 22, 2006

By 

Bradley Maggard (Adrian, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung YP-T7Z 1 GB Digital Audio Player (Electronics)

I was 100% satisfied with this player -- the features are awesome. After 2 months, however, the unit started to freeze immediately after starting up. I tried everything - letting the battery drain, resetting the unit 20+ times, etc, and it constantly froze up when I started it up. All my computers said "USB Device not recognized" when I plugged it into them. Nothing played, and the clock on it stated the current time it started up, and it froze there. I was ready to go to Samsung for an RMA...

...when my wife did something I didn't think of doing. She reset the unit, so, it was powered down. She then plugged it it into her laptop without turning it on at all, and wala! She could see ALL the MP3s on the unit! After she erased all of the MP3s from it, she put back on one, and boom! the thing powers up and works beautifully!

Puzzled, I was to the point where I assumed that one (or more) of the MP3s that were copied to the unit were causing the freezeup. We went through all the MP3s, and got rid of ALL the MP3s with bitrates that weren't 128kbps, 160kbps, or 192kbps (I read somewhere that this player didnt do anything over 192kbps, not sure if thats true). We loaded the unit back up after ensuring they were all one of the 3 "standard" bitrates, and it works beautifully!

I seriously hope this information may help others of you who have this same problem. I have a feeling its just one of your MP3s thats corrupted / or an incorrect bitrate that this player might not support.

If it weren't for this odd issue it would have definitely got 5 stars from me!!!!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome player..., May 4, 2005

By 

JH "flyinglow" (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung YP-T7Z 1 GB Digital Audio Player (Electronics)

I purchased this player a little over a week ago. Here are my observations and thoughts so far:

1) Size: The size of this thing is amazing, so tiny. You can't even tell if it is in your pocket.

2) FM: I have used this several times in the gym, they have the mini transmitters so you can watch and listen to the TV. It works great and helps pass the time.

3) FM Record: Works great, haven't used it since when I was first playing around, but the record quality is good.

4) Line Record: Works pretty much like the FM Record, sounds great, works like a charm.

5) Color Display: HUGE plus. It looks cool, the menus take a bit to learn, but after about 20 minutes of messing around it becomes 2nd nature. I haven't used it for picts yet, but given the small size, it will probably be more of a "wallet" shot kinda things, (picts of the family etc).

6) MP3: plays most file formats I can think of...the burn software inclued works well.

7) Sound: Using the earphones provided, the sound is very good. I have yet to hook it up to the stereo, but given the sound quality so far I am sure it is excellent. The EQ features all work great, lots of stuff to mess around with.

8) Battery: I have had my player for a week, so far I have not even seen a decrease in the power bar. My use so far includes:
- 3 trips to the gym (45 min each time)
- 2 flight SEA-LAX (about 1.5 hours use each way)
- office and home use about 4 hours
- Loaded about 500mb from the USB
- Recorded 2 songs via Line record
- Recorded 1 song on FM

9) Battery part II: I was concerned about the built-in battery and almost purchased another unit with a AA due to that fact. However, given my experiance so far, the battery life has been excellent. I also did some homework on the Samsung website. You can order a replacement battery for about 50 bucks. If you are in any way mechanically inclided I am sure that it is not complicated to replace it. If the battery craps out in the near future I will probably go that route. But given the way technology goes, by that time I may want a new player. :)

I have no regrets in purchasing the player. The one thing I wish they had included would have been an integrated USB port (ala Shuffle). While it would have doubled the size, it still would have been nice. I did have a chance to look at the shuffle and it doesn't compare. Just that one feature.

Enjoy!