I have owned this device for 18 months. Today it just died. There was no impact or water damage etc. That alone is sufficient reason to give it 3 star. There’s just no excuse nowadays when a relatively basic piece of technology like this fails so quickly. Who knows if this is an isolated incident - I can only rate the one I owned. Until a few years ago my grandad owned a radio that he’d bought in the ’60s and it still worked. This is how it should be for all technology.
Before the player died it worked fine, but there were two things that irritated me. Firstly, when one album finished, instead of starting to play tracks from the next album - which would have been the obvious thing to do - it would just stop and then switch itself off. There is no way to change this. Annoying when listening to it while cycling, as you’d have to stop, fish about for the player under layers of clothing, switch the thing on again and then start the next album. Which brings me on the the second irritating thing - if an album finished it would turn itself off pretty quickly ( a very annoying jingle tells you it’s doing so) . I don’t know how many seconds it would take from the end of an album to turn itself off but it was far too soon, and again this was not a setting that could be changed. Battery life was pretty good, so it would hardly have been the end of the world if the device had stayed on for 5 or 10 minutes before switching itself off, just to allow you to stop and tell it to play the next album, which obviously you have to do pretty often. The really annoying and loud jingle would be an reminder of the laziness of Samsung’s product designers. The minutest amount of work on the software for the device would have corrected these problems, but obviously Samsung just couldn’t be bothered.
So glad I didn’t buy a Samsung mobile. It makes me angry when companies just can’t be bothered to make their stuff work properly.