Samsung YP-K3 (2GB) The Samsung YP-K3 has a easy-to-use interface, good price and good sound quality, but unfortunately you can’t connect it with a MAC for simple data storage, the controls are tricky and it doesn’t have the record feature. Also, there aren’t many files compatible with it, but it’s a nice-looking player, fitting perfectly with your pocket.Currently, it’s only available in 2GB and 4GB capacities and the 8GB one should be available in a few months. It’s price is reasonable, at $119 for 2GB and $169 for 4GB. It has touch sensitive keys, that light up, making it look very stylish. It has Menu, Select, Back and directional keys and is available in green, black and red versions.

A 1.8″ OLED display offers you a great view of the menu and everything you need, but it doesn’t have the highest resolution. The connectivity is ensured by a dock connector, along with 3.5mm standard audio jack, for headphones.

Unfortunately, it lacks a loudspeaker, along with the alarm clock, that would be useless without it. Also, another minus is that you have to look at it while using it, because you won’t feel the touch sensitive keys, so you won’t know which one you press, so you have to take it out of your pocket.

The K3 is plug-and-play, so you just have to attach the USB cable to the PC and it will be recognized by Windows, but MAC users are having an issue, with no USB Mass Storage Class drivers for them.




Not sure how these rumors get about, but apparently there is a new one that Samsung will be launching a new MP3 player, the YP-K3. Apparently, the YP-K3 is going to be a smaller version of the YP-K5, pictured here.

Of course, who can say if this is true or not? I mean, we don’t even have a picture of it. If it is, then look for the YP-K3 early in 2007. Considering the price range of the Samsung YP-K3 is about $162-250, I’m sure the K3 will probably be about the same, if it is real.

The YP-K3 supports ID3 tags and this is shown by how music is arranged by Artists, Albums, Playlists and Song Tracks. Samsung has kept the same animated blue dots (that morph into different icons) in the main menu from the K5. We also like how the display fades to a screensaver of your choosing (analog clock, various animation graphics, photos).



In our test of the software, it was spot on, sometimes. The program had surprised us such as when it classified Garbage's Boys Wanna Fight as "cheerful". We think it's a lack of categories that's limiting the software. After all, fighting can be considered a cheerful activity, depending on who's on the receiving end.

Besides being able to burn CDs, rip music and edit ID3 tags, the Media Studio also has a song rating feature, though it's not available on the YP-K3. Like the smart playlist feature in iTunes, Samsung's own is called auto albums. It allows users to input multiple rule filters such as song ratings, play count and artist name, and import the playlist into the YP-K3.