S2 review

Let’s look at the new product S2 by Samsung.
I think it’s a competitor of the iPod shuffle leading the low price market.　


1. Specification

The most noticeable thing is its light weight – 17.2g. It’s lighter than the M player by iRiver(18g). Playing time is enough 13 hours.

Especially, it supports DNSe. The sound quality of DNSe from the tiny small is really good. Normal/Studio/Concert Hall types are included.



2. Design　
It is designed reminding a pebble at stream. It consists of the front with buttons and the smooth back chromium plated.　
In the front, playing button in the center, volume and FF/Rew buttons are located to control easily. There’s a ‘Smart Key’ button on the bottom, and it is used to set the equalizer (Normal/Studio/Concert Hall) and playing mode pushing it shortly for the equalizer, while longer for the playing mode.
The playing mode changes as below.
Repeat playing mode (Blue) – Changed with longer beep sound
Shuffle Mode (Green-Blue-Pink) – Changed with beep sound
Playing list mode(Pink) –Changed with beep sound


There’s a small hole under the earphone jack, and this fixes the S2 by connecting the hook of the earphone.

When turned on, it’s LED at the back. The surface is plated by chromium, so it’s hard to take a photo here.


3. Items

This consists of the body / USB adaptor / Necklace earphone / Install CD.

Peculiar thing is that it uses 3 poles earphone/USB adaptor to download and charge.

The EP370 is a necklace type earphone, so it’s not a burden to hang on the neck.

4. USB download speed　
We measured the download speed of the S2. It’s similar to the S5.(When it comes to writing, it’s worse. – 1.3MB/s) I know it has 1GB/2GB smaller capacity, but I hope they care about this.



5. Overall　
I recommend this small cute product to users who want to do exercise with listening to music, or felt a little burden using heavy MP3 players. Due to its lightness, it’s easy to have a prejudice, but when checking the sound quality with an earphone, you will realize it was a so big mistake. I hope this will be released with a reasonable price.