Samsung P3 touchscreen MP3 player

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Samsung spilled the beans on the new P3 MP3 player at the company's CES 2009 press conference. As an update to Samsung's popular P2, the P3 shares many of its predecessor's features, including a 3-inch WQVGA touch screen, DNSe sound enhancement, audio and video playback, photo viewer, FM radio, voice recording, and Bluetooth capabilities such as phone pairing and stereo audio streaming.

Samsung also integrated speakers and improved DNSe 3.0 sound enhancement technology, which it claims will allow users to "enjoy sound quality that more accurately matches the tone and feel originally intended by the audio producer. The previous multimedia device supported MPEG-4-, WMV- and SVI-format videos (with 6hr playback) and a variety of audio formats (30hr playback).

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The P3 will be available in matte black and matte silver finishes in the first half of 2009. Using flash-memory, capacities will include 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. Pricing was not available.