Samsung YP-Z5 Reviews

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Samsung YP-Z5
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Average Ratings for Samsung YP-Z5

  • Sound Quality4.1 stars
  • Battery Life3.5 stars
  • Features3.2 stars
  • Value for Money3.5 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings3.3 stars
  • Overall Rating3.5 stars

14 Reviews For Samsung YP-Z5

  • Guest 2nd Dec 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Good Points: This mp3's battery life still continues to surprise me. The sound quality alone makes it worth buying. The best thing about this mp3 is its durability; mine has sustained unimaginable hits (dropped in water, fell down stairs,stepped on, launched at walls and worse) and the screen has never cracked, with no major dents.


    Bad Points: Like all mp3s, this one will crash once or twice in the very early stages of use, but just leave it for a day or more, let it crash and run out of batteries, and then pick it back up again and it works like new for the rest of its days.


    General comments: Everyone complains about the control pad, but it's not a big deal. If you plan to have it for more than a week, and to actually use it then you become accustomed to it very quickly. As for the lacking extra features, I don't have any regrets since all I was looking for was an mp3 to play my music that wouldn't break. For people who have a knack for wearing out gadgets fast, this one will last.

  • Guest 9th Jul 2008

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    I only had the Samsung MP3 Yp-Z5 since December 2006 and have not used it too often. When idle for more than 3-4 days, needs recharging.

    Lately, scroll gets stuck on one selection; unable to move back or forward. Jumps to Now Playing and just gets stuck there. Need to reset with pin then jumps to first Menu item Music. After slightly touching the pad jumps to Album then after selecting first item tends to jump to the next one and the next one and so on and cannot scroll back.

    I am looking a ...

  • Guest 12th Mar 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Samsung YP Z5 is a good product, had i-pod nano and had 4 cause they just break. Had the mp3 player for 3 years a no problems what so ever. Great product.

  • john47 5th Mar 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    My one after 9 months lost all song lists, genre etc and would not charge off the computer rendering it useless. Many people on the net have the same problem and I will replace it with another brand. Great while it lasted! ie 9 months

  • nouni15 24th Dec 2007

    Reviewer rating: 3 stars


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    I live in Australia and bought a Samsung YPZ5 for $300 and my friend bought an Ipod for $350. His ipod can play/store movies, pictures and music. Also his has 80GB!! He already had 1824 songs, 24 movies and a million pictures!! I felt beaten. As this product only has 2GB (1989 MB to be exact) and can store about 500 songs.

  • clanis 12th Oct 2007

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    The fact that this YP Z5 keeps crashing is annoying and outweighs the good points. Not sure that I would buy another Samsung MP3 player.

  • me3101 Rank: Corporal 4th Jun 2007

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    I used to have a Samsung 20gb player but traded it in for this, which is much smaller and nicer to use, with most importantly, longer battery life. The capacity is not an issue, as now I just put albums on I want to hear, rather than on the old one where everything I had was on it and I spent hours just forwarded though stuff I did not want to hear! I listen to a lot of podcasts as well, so don't need a huge capacity.

    I like the fact that it displays the album art of the song playing and you ...

  • timsearle 13th Jan 2007

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    For me battery life was a big issue so I've returned the player. Otherwise it was fine - controls slightly fiddly but OK once used to them.

  • Emma30 3rd Jan 2007

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Very good

  • mikesilvey Rank: LieutenantCompetition Winner 22nd Sep 2006

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    The Samsung YP Z5 is my 4th MP3 player, and by far the best, I am very happy with it. It feels fairly solid and looks very stylish. The screen is good and the menus are easy to use. The battery Life is Brilliant! quoted at 35 hours, not sure it would last that long, but easily handled a 7 hour flight to new york and back, and a few hours travel time at either end! It is easy to Snyc IF you have built your music collection with Windows Media Players Library, if you have just put MP3 in directorie ...

  • paulywoly 16th Sep 2006

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    For the most part, I am very happy with this player. I started with MP3 players about 2 years ago, and the first one I had was the YH-925. The YP-Z5 that I have now is very much superior to the previous one I had. The sound is marvelous, as is the control scheme (even if the menu looks a lot like the iPod). The transferring of the music is a breeze. There is no software, you just drag and drop through Windows media 10 or higher. For those who have had problems with transferring (as I gathered fr ...

  • dean butler 27th Aug 2006

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    The only thing that I cannot work out on the Samsung YP-Z5 MP3 player is how to delete a track from it?

    I have it plugged it into Windows Media Player 10, and the songs come up, but then I am stuck!

    I accidentally put two songs onto my player three times each. I have deleted them from WMP10, but they are still on my player.

    Can anyone help me?

    And as I am of the older generation, can it be in plain simple English?

    Many thanks

  • andrewherring 18th Jul 2006

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    If like me you were looking for an MP3 player with: -
    1) Excellent sound quality
    2) Low cost but good quality
    3) Low weight

    Then I would recommend the Samsung YP Z5 player to anyone. I spent many many hours going through all the review sites, and ended up with a shortlist of iRiver, Creative Zen Sleek, and iPod. This is by far the best unit in terms of quality and cost.

    People have written elsewhere about the fiddly control buttons/touch pad. I popped down to a local electrical store t ...

  • lefromagegrand Rank: Lance Corporal 9th May 2006

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    The YP Z5 is supposed to be an iPod beater. It is supposed to just plug in and play, synchronize with Windows Media Player and just get on with it - no convoluted software needed - and promises great sound quality and a really long battery life.

    The reality for me at least was hours of frustration and wasted time. The iPod may have received some flak in the past but it is now on its 5th generation, and the research and development and the lessons learned from previous models has in my vie ...

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Key Number of Songs: 1000Storage Capacity: 4 GBMain Storage Type: Built-in MemoryAudio Capabilities: Audio Format: MP3 / WMAMP3 Bit-Rate: 8 kbps - 320 kbpsWMA more details...

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