Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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So last week I was in Best Buy, intent on getting the Creative Zen Sleek to replace my Creative Zen Micro. I was kind of turned off by its size (same as iPod) but much larger than the Zen Micro. I forgot how small the Zen Micro is and wasn’t willing to carry around something bigger/heavier.
Anyway, I was completely taken aback by the Samsung YP-F1Z. It’s a 1 GB Flash based player, similar to the iPod shuffle. However, it’s TINY! I mean really really small. It also has an FM Radio, a OLED screen, Audio Recording, and Radio Recording. I picked one up for $159.
I really LOVE this device. I never realized how convenient it is to have a small selection of my favorite tunes, plus access to NPR via FM. The device is so small, that I just clip it to my shirt like the remote for my Zen Micro. In fact, it’s about the size of the Zen Micro Control. It also comes with a necklace like the shuffle with integrated headphones (I’m not keen on that though since I already have my own nice headphones).
Anyway, Samsung has a winner her. The device does not support PlaysForSure Subscription (only Download) though (which is a small bummer).
For now it seems that Best Buy is the only big retailer carrying this.