My older ipod nano is sadly starting to die on me, and so I decided to look around for something new. I am not a fan of the design of the new weirdly small nanos, but I didn't want to spend a ridiculous amount of money on an ipod touch or classic. I became very excited when stumbling upon this player, and after much debate, I finally gave in and decided to get the 3.6 player.
I've had it for about a week now, but I am very happy with it. I was mostly reluctant to buy this because I guess you could say I'm "married to itunes". All of my music and so on has been itunes centered for the past 5 or 6 years, so transitioning and working around it is a little weird, but I think I'll just download Samsung Kies or something and see how that goes. I'm really trying to avoid having to use Windows Media Player. This is probably my only big issue.
The screen is great! I've used friends' iphones and itouches before, and this screen definitely is just as good if not better. (Then again, I am definitely not an apple/mac person at all, haha. But I still stand by what I said.) Typing anything on it is a breeze, and since I have skype on mine, sending quick IMs is super quick and easy. It's a very responsive screen, and feels very solid.
So far it's very fast. It hasn't frozen on me yet either. My previous ipods would all often freeze up or need to be restarted. It is still pretty new though, to be fair.
Another main reason I got this was because I can easily make this a 32GB, but don't have to spend the extra freaking $100 for it! This is a MAJOR plus for me. Plus this already comes with a 8GB card in it, and it costs over $50 less than the 8GB itouch.
It stores a lot more apps than my phone can handle (which is only a few), so personally for me this player has been great for me because I can finally download a bunch of apps that I've wanted to.
And, another personal plus for me, my player came preloaded with Angry Birds, one of my big addictions. And it's much faster than my older android phone can play it.
Oh, and it didn't come with those awful, uncomfortable ipod earphones I hate so much! So now I have a decent pair of back-up earphones that I won't dread using when the time comes.
My only other annoyance (besides my itunes thing) is where the power button is on this player, because I'm so used to an ipod's hold button being on top of the player. But that's no big deal, really. I'll eventually get used to it.
All in all, move over ipod, you've got pretty tough competition. This is really a great MP3 Player, and I am very happy. Thank you Samsung!!
UPDATE 9/7/12: I just downloaded DoubleTwist thanks to a suggestion by someone who commented on my review. It totally solved my itunes problem! And it was SO easy too, and automatically transferred my music into it from itunes, I didnt have to do it myself or deal with it taking hours to load. It was immediate, and when I plugged in my Galaxy Player, DoubleTwist immediately recognized it. (Keys player was pretty bad too, so I'm so happy that DoubleTwist exists!) My itunes problem is pretty much gone now, and I'm very happy.
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