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Samsung’s MP3 strike force

Samsung's taken the UK wrapping off a trio of new MP3 lovelies. But do they have what it takes to beat the likes of Apple, Creative and Sony?

After a disappointing no-show in MP3 land last year, it finally looks like Samsung’s getting serious about portable audio. Here’s our lowdown on its three new contenders:

YH-925 – the iPod Photo wannabe (left)

Sammie’s answer to the Photo is a 20GB player with support for MP3, Napster To Go WMA and Ogg. There’s no word on USB hosting, so we’re presuming the only way to get photos on there is via your PC. Pricing is well off the mark at £250, especially considering you can get a 30GB iPod Photo for the same figure. Worse still is the official battery life – 9 hours! It’s likely going back in time, back in time…

YH-820 – the iRiver H10 rival (centre)

This 5GB colour screen job looks more credible than the YH-925, mainly thanks to the cute design and the fact that it undercuts iRiver’s H10 by a tenner (£170 to the H10’s £180). It’s got line-in encoding and matches the H10 and Zen Micro with Napster To Go support. The screen also looks like it might be superior to the H10’s.

YP-T7 – the Shuffle slayer (right)

Brace yourself for more price inflation insanity: this 1GB neck hanger costs £160! Wowzers, as a certain Inspector Gadget would put it. Still, it’s got a colour screen for your jpegs and it’s pretty tiny, albeit bigger than Sony and Apple’s new flash players. Main drawback may be the battery life, which – again – is weak at 12 hours.

All three players are on sale now.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home