Mind over Matters: Rumbles of my mind.. Echo in this blog..

I finally got what i wanted to buy for sometime now.. A brand new samsung P2 ! There was a tussle between whether i should go for a ipod touch or a P2. There were some pros and cons in both of them

You could basically put down a pros of one as cons of other and vice-versa.So ultimately i had to decide on something. Well. for starters, my existing cell phone's joystick wasnt working well (i have a sony k 700i which is about 2 years old). And if i had this mp3 player through which i  can make calls.. it was a bonus! No need to keep fishing around for my cell phone each time i get a call. I can just use my mp3 player.

Bluetooth is indeed very useful. I can integrate it with my laptop and transfer files without having to use the USB. The general consensus was that P2 also had a better sound quality and battery life than the ipod touch (maybe because touch had to work on a larger screen?!) Light weight and more compatible than ipod.

Now of course, ipod touch has wifi.. Awesome.. Absolutely great!! But hey.. i am in india... Wifi?? Excuse me?! I only have wifi in office (sun's wifi) and in my house where i have a wireless switch.. And in both the places, i mostly have my laptop switched on which has wifi and i can surf the net on a way much bigger screen than on the ipod. Unlike in US where i have found that a lot more places seem to have wifi and wifi is indeed much more useful.

Besides i can use the p2 as a 8GB storage device and store arbitary files unlike the ipod touch which only your itunes software will understand and load the contents and hence you cannot store any files YOU want in it. On the whole a bit more locked down than the P2. And being a Sun employee, lock down of any sort doesnt go in well with me.

Also, i am a big time listener to FM radio stations. I pretty much get bored with the playlists i have even if i put them in the "shuffle" mode. So, whenever i go in for a long walk or a ride, i pretty much prefer listening to FM stations. The reception of P2 was not bad at all and it had a 30 station FM preset memory. Something which the ipod touch too terribly lacked.

This P2 also has something called a "A->B "which i cant seem to quite figure out what it is.. I select an A point and a B point and the music gets stuck between those two points.. Wonder why they put it in there..

The bigger plus was the presense of a DNSe feature which is completely awesome. P2 also supports a wider variety of music file formats than ipod touch.
 

 Here is some of bad quality P2 pics which i took from my canon camera whose zoom has inexplicably stopped working ever since i set foot in boston.

If you want to know more about this product or comparison of this player with other mp3 touch players, the internet has a lot of smut than you want.. You can spend hours wading through users comments and experiences and also much more sexier pictures than what i have just uploaded.