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When I first saw this device I thought it was very cool and gave the user a little bit way of Experiencing Mobility in a variety of situations.  I posted about it sometime back and today I saw a neat review on everythingUSB that was well done.

There was a sentence that caught my attention enough to want to read the review … and I’m glad I did because it was excellent!

In a move for the betterment of portable electronics, the YP-K5 takes a page out of home theater devices by idolizing the color black and ignoring all others.

In the final analysis, they said:

Samsung certainly did a fine job when it came to engineering the YP-K5, the hardware is top notch! The sound quality is excellent, the alarm clock is actually useful, the innovative earbuds have bass that rocks, and the built-in speakers sound better than I expected. What hurts this particular player however are a few small quirks with its firmware, which doesn’t seem to have been receiving many updates outside of Korea. The issues I found aren’t big/numerous enough to prevent my endorsement of the YP-K5; however they are noticeable and leave me yearning for improvement. At $250 for a 4GB unit, the YP-K5 seems to be a good deal if you actually intend on using the speakers fairly often, otherwise there’s slimmer, more mature players out there that offer an increased storage capacity for the same price. Just don’t install the bundled software.

Check out the full review of the Samsung YP-K5 4GB MP3 Player here