Samsung T10 4 GB Slim Portable Media Player with Bluetooth (Black) Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)I have had this player for about 1 month now.Have only used it for music so far.Had issue getting one computer to recognize the player while a different computer had no issues.Level I tech support was not very helpful (wanted the player sent back for repair even though it was a Windows problem), and level II support quite knowledgeable (make sure you have the .net updates installed - they ask you to install all optional Windows updates).It was nice to actually have a real person answer the tech support phone # with very short wait.

I had wanted to get a Sansa, but could not understand why players purchased in the USA have no Asian language support, but if you buy a Sansa in say Hong Kong then you can buy it with Asian language support.They also refuse to provide that option through firmware upgrade.The T10 automatically displayed correctly the song names in my music library that were in Chinese.

Pros:

Great music quality great, and even better battery life (3 day car trip without recharging).The player is stylish, small, and very lightweight.

Many ways to sync - using included software, Windows Media Player, or drag and drop from Explorer.

Cons:

No easy way to manage playlists.If you create playlists in the included software, all songs in the playlist are transferred to the same folder.Say you created 3 folders in the T10 to manage music, and a song happens to be in 2 playlists -> this song would be copied twice to the 2 folders.Of course, this eats up memory fast.Why use folders?Because I like to organize my music, and also to avoid filename conflicts from older CD's which have ripped songs with filenames like 'track 1', etc.

Another feature that would be nice is to be able to play all songs in a genre or master folder, instead of having to drill down to the album and only playing that album.For a long car trip, I would prefer that the T10 plays multiple albums without need of user intervention.

Miss the feature in iTunes where I could set up sync profiles to sync different set of songs to the iPOD depending on what portion of my library I wanted to take.

Recommendation:

Definitely a good player worth buying.

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Product Description:
The Samsung T10 is Samsung's thinnest and most lightweight portable media player with built-in Bluetooth technology. With the T10, you can take your music, videos, photos, and FM radio wherever you go. With Bluetooth 2.0 built into the T10, you can enjoy all that great media content with wireless Bluetooth headphones and speakers in full-stereo, high-quality sound.

Samsung's thinnest and most lightweight portable media player. View larger.View menu overview.

If that isn't enough, you also can make live recordings with its built-in microphone or make recordings of your favorite FM radio stations. Users can even set up datacasts (podcasts) by using the SMS software that comes on the installation disk.
When you're not listening to robust audio playback on the T10, kick back and enjoy an MPEG4 or WMV9 video file on its bright and brilliant two-inch QVGA full-color display. The same screen can display album art and stylish screen savers. Samsung multimedia software is included with the T10 to transcode video on your PC before transferring to the T10, so videos on the T10 play at the optimal frame size and rate with minimal effort from the user. T10 will play back video at up to 30 frames per second for seamless video clarity.
Lightweight and portable, the T10 comes with 4 GB of built-in Flash memory and supports WMV, SVI, JPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG, and TXT files. Its Li-Poly battery supports up to 30 hours of audio playback and four hours of video playback. The battery can be charged while synced to a PC with the provided USB cable. (The device supports USB 2.0 connectivity for speedy file transfers.) Measuring 3.78 x 1.63 x 0.31 inches, the T10 weighs just 1.6 ounces and is compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.

The T10 features picture slideshows and wallpaper, an FM tuner and recorder, a text viewer, and a file browser.