The Samsung YP-S3 (or simply Samsung S3) is an

MP3 player A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files. Normally they refer to small, battery-powered devices ...

produced and manufactured by

Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC; stylized as SΛMSUNG; ) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation founded on 13 January 1969 and headquartered in Yeongtong District, Suwon, South Korea. It is curr ...

released in 2008.

File Support

The Samsung YP-S3 supports the

MP3 MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount ...

, WMA,

MPEG4 MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats. It was originally introduced in late 1998 as a group of audio and video coding formats and related te ...

Ogg Ogg is a digital multimedia container format designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of digital multimedia. It is maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation and is free and open, unrestricted by software patents. Its name is ...

, SVI,

JPEG JPEG ( , short for Joint Photographic Experts Group and sometimes retroactively referred to as JPEG 1) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degr ...

, and TXT file formats.

Features

The Samsung YP-S3 has several features. It has: *

FM Radio FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to transmit high fidelity, high-f ...

* FM Radio Recording * DNSe 2.0 Sound Engine * Picture Viewer * Text Viewer * Video player * Games *

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Tools & Other Features

* Alarm Clock * Album Art * Wallpaper *

Screen Saver A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time. The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor ...

* Clock

File Management, Battery & Storage

MP3 Files in the Samsung S3 are managed through albums, songs, artists, and genre. A favorites list is an option.

Applications

The S3's Applications include Music, Videos, Prime Pack, Settings, Data Casts, FM Radio, Pictures, and a File Browser.

Storage Space

The Samsung YP-S3 may contain 2 GB, 4 GB or 8 GB of internal storage space.

Battery life

Samsung claims up to 25 hours of music playback (with MP3 formatted 128 kbit/s files and volume 15/30) or 4 hours of video playback on one charge.

References

External links

Samsung Website US
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