Samsung T10 4 GB Slim Portable Media Player with Bluetooth (Black)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 0.3 x 3.8 inches ; 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000VQ3R44
• Item model number: YP-T10JAB
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,825 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 15, 2007

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
The Samsung T10 is Samsung’s thinnest and most lightweight portable media player with built-in Bluetooth technology. With the T10, you can take your music, videos, photos, and FM radio wherever you go. With Bluetooth 2.0 built into the T10, you can enjoy all that great media content with wireless Bluetooth headphones and speakers in full-stereo, high-quality sound.

Samsung's thinnest and most lightweight portable media player. View larger. View menu overview.

If that isn't enough, you also can make live recordings with its built-in microphone or make recordings of your favorite FM radio stations. Users can even set up datacasts (podcasts) by using the SMS software that comes on the installation disk.

When you're not listening to robust audio playback on the T10, kick back and enjoy an MPEG4 or WMV9 video file on its bright and brilliant two-inch QVGA full-color display. The same screen can display album art and stylish screen savers. Samsung multimedia software is included with the T10 to transcode video on your PC before transferring to the T10, so videos on the T10 play at the optimal frame size and rate with minimal effort from the user. T10 will play back video at up to 30 frames per second for seamless video clarity.

Lightweight and portable, the T10 comes with 4 GB of built-in Flash memory and supports WMV, SVI, JPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG, and TXT files. Its Li-Poly battery supports up to 30 hours of audio playback and four hours of video playback. The battery can be charged while synced to a PC with the provided USB cable. (The device supports USB 2.0 connectivity for speedy file transfers.) Measuring 3.78 x 1.63 x 0.31 inches, the T10 weighs just 1.6 ounces and is compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.

The T10 features picture slideshows and wallpaper, an FM tuner and recorder, a text viewer, and a file browser.

Product Description
Lightweight portable device 4GB Flash memory Supports WMV, SVI, JPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG, TXT 2" TFT LCD display Bluetooth 2.0 Compatible FM Tuner with recorder View pictures, text and video Voice recording (custom bit rate) Datacasting Shows album art and wallpaper File browser, PC playlist, mobile playlist and library Adjustable play speed Clock Audio Playback time ¿ 30 hours Video Playback time ¿ 4 hours Internal Li-Poly rechargeable battery Embedded microphone USB 2.0

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice player, great battery life, software lacking, January 29, 2008

By	J. W. (Chandler, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

I have had this player for about 1 month now. Have only used it for music so far. Had issue getting one computer to recognize the player while a different computer had no issues. Level I tech support was not very helpful (wanted the player sent back for repair even though it was a Windows problem), and level II support quite knowledgeable (make sure you have the .net updates installed - they ask you to install all optional Windows updates). It was nice to actually have a real person answer the tech support phone # with very short wait.

I had wanted to get a Sansa, but could not understand why players purchased in the USA have no Asian language support, but if you buy a Sansa in say Hong Kong then you can buy it with Asian language support. They also refuse to provide that option through firmware upgrade. The T10 automatically displayed correctly the song names in my music library that were in Chinese.

Pros:

Great music quality great, and even better battery life (3 day car trip without recharging). The player is stylish, small, and very lightweight.

Many ways to sync - using included software, Windows Media Player, or drag and drop from Explorer.

Cons:

No easy way to manage playlists. If you create playlists in the included software, all songs in the playlist are transferred to the same folder. Say you created 3 folders in the T10 to manage music, and a song happens to be in 2 playlists -> this song would be copied twice to the 2 folders. Of course, this eats up memory fast. Why use folders? Because I like to organize my music, and also to avoid filename conflicts from older CD's which have ripped songs with filenames like 'track 1', etc.

Another feature that would be nice is to be able to play all songs in a genre or master folder, instead of having to drill down to the album and only playing that album. For a long car trip, I would prefer that the T10 plays multiple albums without need of user intervention.

Miss the feature in iTunes where I could set up sync profiles to sync different set of songs to the iPOD depending on what portion of my library I wanted to take.

Recommendation:

Definitely a good player worth buying.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent player for audio: free library eaudiobooks, radio and podcasts, December 8, 2007

By	Cassandra Bonheur (Washington. DC) - See all my reviews

Other reviews (including a great review by Mariofrancis1 on youtube.com) have provided very useful information on this player. The elements on which I found it more difficult to find information were the voice - audio elements of players. So, after testing the T10, here's how it performs on that score:

(i) fm radio - T10 finds stations automatically or manually with ease, but the autosearch is not as quick as that of the Zune. Many stations are crystal clear, but others are a little scratchy. Another player with fm radio is Sony, whose player also works well.

(ii) podcasts - No problems here. These can be set up via subscription so that the latest podcasts are downloaded automatically as soon as the player is connected to the laptop - at lightning speed - deleting the earlier casts, but not other files. The number of downloads per podcast can be individualized for each podcast for the last 2, 5, 10 (etc) feeds.

(iii) Playback of secure/protected WMA - I considered this element essential so that I could borrow free eAudiobooks from my local library (via Netlibrary) rather than pay to download them from commercial websites. Here the T10 performed well, although you do have to route your downloaded eAudiobook through Windows Media Player before transferring it to the T10. If you don't, the files remain locked and cannot be transferred to the player. The T10 also has a bookmarking function (not available on all WMA-compatible players), which means you can bookmark your Audiobook, go off to play some music and come back to the exact place on your Audiobook where you left off.

(iv) Long battery life - at 30-35 hours playback time, it should survive most intercontinental plane trips.


PS Note regarding netlibrary compatibility: iPod and Zune do not support the protected WMA. Sony sales reps (online and phone) provide conflicting advice re their A818 on this score. See this link for more on WMA- and bookmarking-compatible devices and how to use netlibrary.
http://www.oclc.org/audiobooks/techspecs/devices.htm.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why I love my new Samsung T10 MP3 player more than my iPods and iPhone, December 15, 2007

By	littlerabbitnyc "littlerabbitnyc" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

I have owned almost 10 iPods, and afterall, they are iPods; you really can't beat them in terms of their user-interface, design and ease of use. On top of that, I barely have any complaint over the iPhone, it's the Jesus phone, for Christ's sake! (pun intended)

But then on my recent trip to HK, I picked up a Samsung T10 to hold some new music that I have ripped from my old CD collection. Because if you sync your iPhone with another computer, all the songs residing on the iPhone will be erased, so basically I just couldn't add new music to my iPhone and I wanted to get a budget MP3 player.

Anyway, I was overwhelmed by the features and qualities of the T10, besides the so so UI (Apple is better on this). First of all, the sound quality blows, really blows. The clarity is so much better than all the iPods I have ever owned. That said, I am using the same crappy Apple headphones. The bass is deep and vibrant. The T10 has an FM radio with auto presets, voice recording, Bluetooth connection to my BT stereo headphones which enables me to listen to music wirelessly. The best of all, is that you can record FM radio broadcast and the T10 instantly turns it into an MP3.

I am so giving up listening to my music on the iPods/iPhone for this little wonder.