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Saturday, December 09, 2006

SCREWED UPPPP.
ok, watched back-to-back episodes of Hannah Montana.
my computer is screwed and so am i. OK maybe not alot.
people, is the K5 Samsung MP3 player good?
parents are confusingggggggg. very.
i asked my dad if i can have the discman and i got a down-right : dont want la..
the discman costs $199.
just now he shoved me this brochure. the K5 Samsung MP3 player brochure. IE. IT COSTS 300 ODD BUCKS . WTFFFF.
it has..
1. MUSIC(DOH)
2. FM RADIO.
3. PHOTO.(HUH?)
4. ALARM.
5.SETTINGS.
i dont get it. what do they mean by PHOTO? getting this one might not be such a bad idea.

All of the iPod's competitors put together have made only a small dent in its dominance. When will it occur to someone to fight innovation with innovation?
Samsung's new YP-K5 adopts just this strategy.
It's a music player, all right, of the Microsoft (Windows-only) persuasion. That is, it cannot play songs from Apple's online iTunes Store, but it does play songs you buy from any of the PlaysForSure online stores like Rhapsody, Napster or Yahoo Music.
In the United States, The K5 costs $210 for a model containing 2 gigabytes of memory (about 500 songs' worth) or $260 for a 4-gig model. That is roughly $50 more each than the corresponding iPod nano models. Is Samsung out of its mind?
No, because the K5 has a very big ace up its sleeve: built-in speakers.
Held in your hand, the K5 looks like a black, triple-thick iPod nano (3.8 by 1.8 by 0.7 inches, or 9.7 by 4.6 by 1.8 centimeters). It turns out, though, that it is that thick for a reason: what looks like a shiny black slab is actually two slabs, ingeniously connected by a sliding hinge.
When you push against the edge, the halves slip apart; the previously concealed bottom half reveals a silver speaker grille. At this moment, the K5's screen image rotates 90 degrees, so that the display is upright when you set the whole thing down on a desk or table.
In that position, it looks like a cross between a teeny-tiny laptop and an itty-bitty boom box. Because that's what it is right now: a boom box. Now your music plays through these tiny speakers.
The sound quality from the two 1-inch speaker cones will not exactly make you think you're sitting in Carnegie Hall. The bass, for example, wouldn't shake the rafters of a dollhouse. Even so, these are very good little 1-inch speakers there is enough power to fill a room with background music, for example.
Now, you might wonder about this idea of adding speakers to an MP3 player. Isn't the whole iPod concept based on having a private sound bubble, playing your own personal music collection?
But that is just the point. The K5 does not, in fact, share the iPod concept. It becomes something very different, a machine that tweaks the definition of the MP3 player. The menu system (Albums, Artists, Tracks, and so on) and basic circular four-button will seem familiar to iPod fans.
But on the K5, there are no physical buttons at all. The controls instead are blue, glowing, touch-sensitive patches on the otherwise glossy, glassy, perfectly flat front panel. Along with the main menu, whose icons visibly morph from one to the next as you scroll through them, these illuminated buttons give the K5 a very cool, futuristic vibe.

OH COOL. ok. lol. just got a BIG FAT HAIRY problem staring me in the face.
I GOT VERY LITTLE SONGS. -.-
just hope i get any good player by monday afternoon. im leaving at night, til then.

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3:21 AM