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Samsung YP-R1 8GB video review

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Put simply, the YP-R1 is a delight to use. Its touchscreen interface is the best you'll find on a device without an Apple logo, it's attractively and well designed and, importantly, it sounds excellent. Plus, it's almost ridiculously cheap compared to its rivals, especially when you consider how much functionality Samsung has crammed in. Read full review

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9/10

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By Hugo Jobling
Reviewed 15 October 2009
Updated 26 May 2011

Price as reviewed

£102.33

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Samsung YP-R1 8GB details

Value
9/10
Usability
9/10
Sound Quality
9/10
Overall
9/10

Price as reviewed

£102.33

Manufacturer

Samsung

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6:56 AM on 15 October, 2009

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All very nice, but will I be able to buy one this time, Samsung?? I'm thinking of the situation with the P3 - fantastic machine, impossible to get hold of - does the term vapourware apply to hardware?

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Colour me interested, especially the 16gb version.





Now if only they had included a micro SD slot.

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3:57 PM on 19 October, 2009

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I'm a very happy user of a P2 4gb (bought when it first came out), thinking of upgrading to the P3 or the R1 in 16gb guise (both about that same price as the P2, w 4x the memory!)- Anybody have input as to which one is better? Sound quality is most important, but am partial to the occasional i-player download too.

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6:12 AM on 27 October, 2009

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Nice review!





I would like to know 2 things though...





Is there a separate charger port on the player? i.e. can you charge it with an adapter? Or it can be charged only via the USB cable?





2. The TV-Out cable which it uses, are they the normal ones like the Creative Zen Vision W? or special one's like the iPod with a proprietary connector?





Thanks.

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4:03 PM on 30 October, 2009

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I bought this player instead of Sony S-series because you wrote about the great format support including AAC, however it won´t play AAC from Itunes plus. Thats disappointing.

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10:27 PM on 30 October, 2009

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I saw this today in Comet! Boy oh boy is it small seriously! and it packs all that

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3:21 PM on 4 November, 2009

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But there's no music shuffle, I don't want to choose tracks or albums, I want the surprise of hearing tracks I'd forgotten. Or is it there and I'm missing it?

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5:56 PM on 24 November, 2009

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WMA support, does that include WMA lossless and DRM'd WMAs? And most importantly, given CDs widely ranging levels, does it support replay gain?





As for whether a device this small needs FLAC support, well if you have your CDs ripped in FLAC then the shear laziness of not having to transcode them is a plus! (and of course most audiophiles would happily sacrifice space for additional quality).

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To reply to Paul H - it does have music shuffle. You have to drill down to a particular track, and then you will get repeat and shuffle in the play options (three horizontal bars, looking like a stack). If you drill down by genre (e.g. Jazz), it will shuffle within that genre, if you drill down by artist, it will shuffle all that artist's tracks, and if you drill down by album, it will shuffle only the tracks of that album. - That's better than I expected.

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Just ordered the 16gb version on Amazon marketplace (seller Hughes Direct which looks to have a reasonably high satisfaction score, and enough buyer numbers to make that score count...hopefully...) for £80 delivered. Peeked at the HD site, and they had the 8gb version for £50 (but out of stock).

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