Samsung S3 4 GB Slim Portable Media Player (White)
- 4 GB capacity stores up to 50 hours of music (MP3 files @ 128kbps) or up to 3 hours 47 minutes of video (MP4 files @ 128kbps)
- Play up to 25 hours of audio or 4 hours of video on a single charge
- 1.8-inch TFT LCD; QCIF display resolution (176 x 220)
- Supports MP3, WMA, and Ogg audio formats; MPEG4 and SVI video formats; JPEG picture files; and TXT files
- 1-year parts and labor warranty
Product Description
Rock out to your favorite tunes or watch crystal-clear videos wherever life takes you on the 1.8" LCD display. The Samsung S3 plays audio, video, and displays still pictures, and text. It also comes with high capacity memory and DNSe sound engine for a superior surround sound experience. Packed with multimedia features you can enjoy no matter where you are, the Samsung S3 makes it easy and fun.Enjoy music at your fingertips. The built-in FM tuner scans the entire FM range in less than 60 seconds and automatically places the available FM stations into presets. To eliminate stations with marginal reception, you can adjust the sensitivity to only preset stations with strong receptions.4 GB of internal flash memory provides enough storage space for approximately 60 hours (4 GB) of audio.Enjoy numerous options to download files the way you want. The Samsung YP-S3 supports MP3, WMA, MPEG4, Ogg, SVI, JPEG, and TXT.
Amazon.com Product Description--Posted July 7, 2008
Rock out to your favorite tunes or watch crystal-clear videos wherever life takes you on a 1.8-inch LCD. Available in five cool colors, the Samsung S3 plays audio and video as well as displays still pictures and text. It also comes with 4 GB of memory and the DNSe sound engine for a superior surround sound experience. Packed with multimedia features you can enjoy no matter where you are, the Samsung S3 makes a perfect media partner.  The Samsung S3 is the perfect media partner. |  Touch-sensitive LED controls disappear when not in use. |  The Samsung S3 MP3 player comes in five cool colors: black, white, red, green and blue. Click to enlarge. | 4 GB Internal Flash Memory
Four gigabytes of internal flash memory provides enough storage space for approximately 50 hours of music (MP3 files at 128kbps). Touch-Sensitive LED Controls
Navigate your files using the touch controls on the S3, which light up only when in use. After a certain period of idleness, the lights dim and the controls seemingly disappear. (Don't worry, they're still there.) Multimedia Performer
The Samsung S3 supports MP3, WMA, and Ogg audio formats. Browse your music by Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres, or Playlists. The S3 displays album art and artist info for the current track. You also can enjoy up to four hours of video on a single charge, in MPEG4 or SVI format. Convert your favorite vids with Samsung Media Studio, and take them with you. The S3 also will display text files, along with your favorite JPEG photos, so you can take a few snapshots with you to show to friends. DNSe sound engine
Samsung's "DNSe" technology lets you dial in your ideal sonic experience with 10 preset EQ settings plus one custom 7-band EQ, along with 3D and Bass settings. FM Tuner/Recorder with Presets
Enjoy quick access to the FM spectrum--the built-in FM tuner scans the entire FM range in less than 60 seconds and automatically places the available FM stations into presets. To eliminate stations with marginal reception, you can adjust the sensitivity to preset stations only with strong receptions. Want to save something for later? Use the FM Recorder and it's yours. What's in the Box
Samsung S3 4 GB Slim Portable Media Player (White), SMS installation CD, EP-380 earphones, USB cable.
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Samsung S3 4 GB Slim Portable Media Player (White)
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- Publisher: Samsung Electronics
- Label: Samsung Electronics
- Studio: Samsung Electronics
- Average Customer Review:
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- Sales Rank in Electronics: #4367
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Summary: Great Little MP3 Player with High Quality Sound 2008-11-29
Comment: Samsung's YP-S3 player is a great little MP3 player with high quality sound. When you purchase any stereo player of any type, there are at least 2 attributes you are concerned with: S/N or signal to noise ratio and frequency response. Samsung's S3 excels in both areas.
Samsung's S3 has a PDF manual available for download on their site and also on the included 8cm mini-CD. The manual claims a S/N ratio of 90 dB and a freq. response of 40Hz-20KHz which are excellent. With S/N, the higher the better and 90 dB is very good. Most stereo equipment never exceed 92 dB. A full freq. response would be 20Hz-20KHz which is the full range of the human ear. While many CD, DVD, and digital players are capable of playing all the way down to 20Hz, almost no home speakers are capable of outputting such a low response.
After listening to the S3 for several days, I can say Samsung delivers on their high specs. There is absolutely no machine noise or humming during music quiet spots. Also, I can hear the full range of the music, excellent. I use the "DNSe" settings which are quite good. DNSe allows you to set 3D and extra Bass effects. There is also a range of equalizer settings you may use. I use the 9 band user equalizer which is great. The specs say 7 band but it's really 9 which is better.
While the S3 delivers excellent performance, I cannot say the same for the included software: their Samsung Media Studio (SMS). SMS offers the bare minimum in features. For some reason, every time I start my Windows XP Pro SP2, SMS puts its icon on my TaskBar. I am NOT going to use SMS every single day (or even every week) so why does it load an icon on my TaskBar?! There is no option in SMS to prevent it from doing this. I am going to have to edit the Registry to remove the SMS startup entry! Also, every time I start SMS, it always attempts to connect to the Internet and there is again no option to prevent this.
Before I purchased the S3, I carefully named each of my own MP3 files I wanted to load starting from "001 Artist - Title" and on. I then discovered SMS has NO column for sorting filenames. SMS was totally worthless for loading my MP3's! Because Windows Explorer doesn't work for creating numbered folders on the S3, that's the only thing I used SMS for. I used Explorer for the actual loading process.
BTW, I called Samsung tech support and they told me the S3 would not list MP3's by filename. This is incorrect. They also said the S3 would show MP3's with no ID3 information as "Unknown." This is also incorrect. Just use "File Browser" or "Music Browser."
Samsung claims 4GB's is "enough space for 50 hours of music using 128 KBit MP3's." No one uses 128 anymore. If you do with the S3, you're going to be unhappy because the quality will be poor. Amazon sells their MP3's at 256 (they should really go to 320). Companies should really stop using the 128 KBit spec. Regardless, 4 GB's is plenty of space for even 256 KBit MP3's. As an MP3 player, the 4 GB S3 will store all your favorite songs and still have space leftover for any extra files you wish to transport to another PC.
As a video player, 4 GB is not enough space. If you wish to play video content, you should purchase the 8 GB S3: Samsung S3 8gb Mp3 Player - Black. For some reason, Amazon doesn't offer the 8 GB model. Even with 8 GB, you may not be content playing video on a small 1.8" screen. For video, you might want to opt for a different model, perhaps one of the OEM makers which offer 3" screens.
Samsung claims 25 hours battery playing time, again probably for 128 KBit MP3's. After you have gone through several recharging cycles, expect about 12 hours playing time for your 256 KBit MP3's. I haven't done this yet.
Finally, because the S3 uses Microsoft's proprietary USB MTP standard, it has some rather high PC requirements: minimum XP SP2 and WMP10. I upgraded my system to XP Pro SP2 (dual-boot system). Even after the upgrade, I was STILL unable to access the S3. I had not realized my SP2 disk only has WMP9. After wasting half an hour trying to find the problem, I realized I needed WMP11 and upgraded. Why the brand name MP3 player manufacturers don't use the universal USB UMS standard I don't know. If you use Linux, Ubuntu or other non-Window$ O/S, you will need to convert your S3 to UMS (probably voiding your warranty in the process). Visit AnythingButIpod and you'll find the Samsung BIOS and instructions.
Overall, after loading my S3, I can say this is a great little player. It costs LESS THAN HALF of iPod's. The S3 has very high sound quality and plenty of space. I have not been forced to recharge yet. Hopefully Samsung will improve their SMS software and then the package will be perfect. If you want to buy a better set of earbuds, try the JVC HA-FX66: JVC HAFX66B Air Cushion Headphones (Black).
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Summary: Many nice features, but not what I wanted. 2008-10-24
Comment: This MP3 player works very well. The buttons are a little too sensitive, but the menus and features are nicely arranged and easy to use.
I chose this particular model because it had variable playback speed. Time is very precious to me in this crazy world, and I need to listen to audio books while I do other things. Gone are the days when I can sit down and read something.
On my computer and my new DVD player I can play DVDs and up to twice the speed and still hear the audio. Unlike with analog technology, these two digital devices playback the audio with out ANY increase in pitch of the voice. In other words the actors don't sound like Minnie Mouse when they talk, they just sound like they are fast talkers. This is great for me because I don't get a lot of DVD viewing time either.
I was expecting the same with this MP3 player, but it is not the case. For some reason when you speed up the audio on the S3 MP3 player the pitch gets higher, so I now have Minnie Mouse reading my audio book instead of a quicker narrator.
This would be a great MP3 player if they could only change this one feature. I don't know why they have to let the pitch increase, perhaps it was at the behest of the music industry. If anyone knows of an MP3 that increases speed without increasing pitch please let me know.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Definitely Great For The Price 2008-10-19
Comment: Really this product deserves about a 4.5 cause it is definitely worth the price. The Samsung S3 is so so cool in so many ways. I basically wanted to buy an ipod because I have an Apple computer. I am young but have never had or worked an mp3 player so I had no idea about any of this stuff. It sounds crazy that I'm so late but I am just now getting tired of rotating my hundreds of Cd's in and out of my old Sony Walkman. When I looked up the prices for the ipod's I let them go pretty quick.
OK so on to the S3, this is very compact and fits well in your pocket. So if you're a girl with tight jeans, this is the MP3 for you because it is very slim. It holds about 1000 songs and one of the coolest features is that it comes with recordable FM radio. If you hear something on the radio that you want but don't want to pay for and download then just record it. Only problem with this feature is that the radio reception will not always be clear and clean. It also comes with a feature I didn't know about until I bought it, it has some cool games already inside it.
The S3 also has amazing sound quality, these are great ear buds. I put my Sony headphones into it and they have nothing on those ear buds so be sure to take care of them. They have great bass and treble but they don't hurt your ears. It doesn't come with a wall charger which kind of sucks cause if you're somewhere and it dies then you are out of luck if you do not have your computer. You can charge it with the USB cord it comes with but unfortunately that can take a minute.
Really that's the only problem I have with the S3. The battery power really isn't 25 hours worth but more like 8 to 9 hours maybe but definitely not 25 hours. The picture is amazing and the colors are bright and vibrant but the battery life is bad. For something that holds about 1000 songs, video, Fm radio, and games it is a pretty good price.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Impressive for the price! 2008-10-14
Comment: I bought my Samsung S3 today - in the short time that I've had it, I must say that I'm very pleased! The sound quality is great, and it is easy to use right out of the box. The features are great for the size of this player. My only complaint is that the software it came with is not licensed for use in the US! So I'll be using the easy drag and drop functionality. Overall, great little player!
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