Installation of the player was a pretty smooth process, except for the fact that the player cannot be power through the USB slot and, because of this, means that the batteries must be installed first. Once the batteries were installed, the player basically remains permanently on, although it just displays a clock with the time and such, which can be useful sometimes. I would have preferred an off button, however, since, even in the clock mode, the battery will eventually get run down after 30 days.

The Baby YEPP includes Samsung YEPP Explorer, which is a very easy to use program for transferring MP3 files to the player. It takes about 20-30 seconds to transfer a 5MB MP3 file to the player, which is quite acceptable. I found that, with the 32MB of built-in memory, about 6-8 songs can be placed onto the player for about half an hour of music, which is adequate for most cases, but would certainly disappoint on a long trip. Unfortunately, probably due to it small size, Samsung didn't include a way to expand the memory, such as Compact Flash support, so you'll just have to live with the 32MB of memory and about 30 minutes of music.

The Baby YEPP's user interface is a little clumsy, mostly due to the fact that Samsung only had 4 buttons to work with. Plus, the manuals confusing information makes learning how to use the Baby YEPP a chore. Fortunately, once one gets used to the player's interface, there are loads of functions to play, such as bass and treble levels, as well as the standard play modes such as repeat, random and intro-play.

The LCD screen does a very good job with displaying useful information to the user-even with a little animation as well! Something that I would have never expected out of such a small player is that the LCD screen displays the filenames of the files being played. Unfortunately, they're not as useful as ID3 tags sometimes, which the Samsung Baby YEPP doesn't support, but they're better than having to remember each song number.

Sound quality was very surprising for such a small device. Many of my friends and family members commented on how surprised they were with the Baby YEPP's sound quality. I felt that the sound quality is very good--of course, that's all dependent on how good of quality your MP3's are.

Of course, they just couldn't stop staring at it because of its small size!

The Tests
I tested the Samsung to see how well it handles different types of MP3 files-more specifically, at which bit-rate that it can handle. I was surprised to see that it can handle any type of MP3 file all the way up to 320kbps, which is very impressive.

Then I tested the Samsung Baby YEPP for its battery life by running it until it stops playing music from a set of new batteries… er, battery. I was surprised to see that the Samsung Baby YEPP ran for a little over 4 hours on only one AAA Energizer battery, which is very extraordinary! I could carry around quite a few of these tiny AAA batteries and this player will last for a looong time...

On to: Conclusion