Manufacturer | Samsung Electronics |
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Series | Samsung YEPP |
First released | October 2009 |
Discontinued | 2011 |
Related | YP-Q3, YP-R1 |
Type | Portable Media Player |
Dimensions | 93 mm (3.7 in) H 52 mm (2.0 in) W 8.8 mm (0.35 in) D |
Weight | 60 g (2.1 oz) |
Operating system | Proprietary firmware (latest v1.25) / Rockbox |
System on chip | Freescale IMX.37 |
CPU | 532MHz ARM1176JZF |
Memory | 64 MB RAM |
Storage | 4, 8, 16 GB |
Removable storage | microSDHC up to 32 GB |
Battery | Li-Polymer 600mAh made by Amperex Technology Limited |
Data inputs | Tactile buttons |
Display | 2.6 inch 240x320 pixel TFT LCD |
Sound | AMS AS3543 |
Connectivity | USB 2.0 (Micro B) |
The Samsung YP-R0 (also known as Samsung R0 worldwide or Yepp R0 in Korea or Samsung R'PLAY in France) is a portable media player made by Samsung, leaked on August 10, 2009 and first released end of October 2009 in Russia. It was developed along with the YP-R1 with which it shares several specifications (similar aluminum design, same Linux kernel and SoC). The R0 is available in three different Flash memory capacities: 4 GB, 8 GB, and 16 GB. It comes in three different colors: black, silver and pink. Storage is expandable via a microSDHC slot with capacity up to 32 GB, and unofficially to 64GB or more via FAT32 formatted SDXC cards. It features an aluminum case, a 2.6 inch TFT LCD display with a resolution of 240 by 320 pixels, RDS FM tuner, tactile buttons and microUSB connector. Several EQ and sound effects are available through Samsung's DNSe 3.0 sound engine.
The Samsung R0 is compatible with Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X when USB mode is set to MSC as a drag and drop USB mass storage device. The player can also function as a Windows Media 10 and up device when USB mode is set to . Unlike many Samsung players, the R0 features a standard microUSB connector. It also has 9 physical keys (power/hold, back, menu, user button, select, up, down, left, right) but neither hardware hold key nor dedicated volume buttons. The R0 only powers fully off after several hours not being used or when pressing the reset hole. The rest of the time it only switches to a sleep mode. Samsung claims up to 30 hours of music playback (with MP3 128kbit/s files, volume level 15, normal sound mode and display off) and 6 hours of video playback (SVI, brightness 3, volume level 15, normal sound mode).