Product Face-Offs
Samsung YP-CP3
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| LCD screen | 3 | ||
| Screen resolution / Colours | 400x240 pixels / NC couleurs | ||
| Storage | Flash memory 4 GB (+cartes microSD) | ||
| Dimensions/Weight | 100 x 52 x 11.1 mm / 75 g grammes | ||
| Battery | 22h audio / 4h vidéo | ||
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| File formats supported | MP3, WMA, Ogg, WAV, FLAC, RM, MPEG4, WMV, SVI, RMVB, TXT |
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Tristan François
Test date: October 07, 2009
Test date: October 07, 2009
microSD, badly managed, for a change
As usual, the microSD slot is badly set up.
The memory card and internal memory are separately handled.
Two menus, two different navigation modes, but a single library. No way of fusing the two, like you can with the Cowon D2. Really disagreeable!
Two menus, two different navigation modes, but a single library. No way of fusing the two, like you can with the Cowon D2. Really disagreeable!
The CP3’s story is quite amusing. At first we thought the player would only come out in China, or in Russia, but here it is in Western Europe. The first shots seemed to show that it would have a photo sensor but we can’t find it. Then we heard about an 8 GB version, but it won’t be coming here apparently.
What is this thing?
The first thing you think when you unpackage the CP3 is, "What on earth is this player?". It has absolutely nothing in common with the design of other Samsung players. It isn’t a touch (THE in vogue technology at Samsung). The finish is very low end, with ugly plastic, poor assembly and a joystick that really doesn’t look as if it will last long.
All this certainly isn’t promising. And yes, when it comes to the interface, we’re a thousand miles away from what Samsung can do. The CP3 continues to confirm its low-end status, what you might expect from an unbranded Chinese product.
To finish our remarks on the external commands, everything else is in keeping with what we’ve seen so far: the joystick is in effect of very relative quality, the on/off button is stiff, there’s a shortcut for record, the utility of which you can only wonder at, so much so that we didn’t bother to press it. No need to say more.
Not a very new sound
When it comes to the sound, it’s no surprise to find the Samsung sound with something of the P2 in the air. No hiss, which is good and no complaints regarding formats accepted. DNSe effects, though good quality, remain stuck at version 2.0 - Samsung has been rolling out 3.0 for months.
We’re not to going to bother talking about the headphones buttons and mediocre sound. Where are the in-ears that you get on a R’mix?
The CP3 makes up for things a bit on the video side as it can play all the standard formats without re-encoding. Great, but once again it lets itself down with the fundamentals – the screen resolution. It’s a shame, as at 3 inches, it’s not far off a mini-PMP size.
Note, there is an FM tuner.
Bizarre is the first word that comes to mind when you get your first look at the CP3. Very different from everything else Samsung does, this player is simply poor, not very nice to look at and generally a generation behind. The manual controls are welcome but when you see what they give in practice, you’re sorely disappointed. And isn’t 4 GB a bit light?
What is this thing?
The first thing you think when you unpackage the CP3 is, "What on earth is this player?". It has absolutely nothing in common with the design of other Samsung players. It isn’t a touch (THE in vogue technology at Samsung). The finish is very low end, with ugly plastic, poor assembly and a joystick that really doesn’t look as if it will last long.
All this certainly isn’t promising. And yes, when it comes to the interface, we’re a thousand miles away from what Samsung can do. The CP3 continues to confirm its low-end status, what you might expect from an unbranded Chinese product.
To finish our remarks on the external commands, everything else is in keeping with what we’ve seen so far: the joystick is in effect of very relative quality, the on/off button is stiff, there’s a shortcut for record, the utility of which you can only wonder at, so much so that we didn’t bother to press it. No need to say more.
Not a very new sound
When it comes to the sound, it’s no surprise to find the Samsung sound with something of the P2 in the air. No hiss, which is good and no complaints regarding formats accepted. DNSe effects, though good quality, remain stuck at version 2.0 - Samsung has been rolling out 3.0 for months.
We’re not to going to bother talking about the headphones buttons and mediocre sound. Where are the in-ears that you get on a R’mix?
The CP3 makes up for things a bit on the video side as it can play all the standard formats without re-encoding. Great, but once again it lets itself down with the fundamentals – the screen resolution. It’s a shame, as at 3 inches, it’s not far off a mini-PMP size.
Note, there is an FM tuner.
Bizarre is the first word that comes to mind when you get your first look at the CP3. Very different from everything else Samsung does, this player is simply poor, not very nice to look at and generally a generation behind. The manual controls are welcome but when you see what they give in practice, you’re sorely disappointed. And isn’t 4 GB a bit light?
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Physical controls
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Large screen
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Poor finish
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Poor software interface
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microSD badly handled
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Only 4 GB capacity
Difficult to see why Samsung have brought this out, from all points of view.
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