Product Analysis:

The first aspect of the T7X that stands out is its periwinkle, or purple-ish color; this is one of the few MP3 players with such a different color scheme. Unlike its MT6V counterpart we evaluated earlier, the T7X is equipped with a 65,000 color vivid screen with rich graphics and quite a few additional features, which we will get to later on. The front of the player is rather clean with a mere screen and a four-way joystick. This appears to be a common Samsung feature, as the company has implemented something parallel to it in almost all of their flash players. The concept behind the joystick is that it’s actually a single button that moves up and down for the respected directions and sideways for skipping forward and backwards between tracks. You must also press the joystick to navigate through menus within the player itself.

The screen is saturated with the general time, track, track number, recorded bit-rate, file format, time left, battery meter and other such features that are fairly common in quality portable audio players. The unfortunate thing about the T7X is that it, too, is packaged with a substandard pair of earphones. They are uncomfortable, and as you might expect, the audio quality is crippling. We understand that the reasoning behind including a pair of earphones is to retail a complete kit to the purchaser, but since many audiophiles would opt for a new pair anyways, it becomes a ineffective right out of the box. Though there isn’t a specific suggestion to remedy this situation, we can only hope that companies can work out this pessimistic problem.

Unlike the MT6V, the right of the T7X is equipped with a headphones jack with nothing else occupying the same area. The left side, however, has all the other buttons that you would use constantly. The respective buttons include play/pause, AB and Rec. in addition to the hold slider. Samsung has integrated a recording capability with this particular player as well. Even though we are usually cynical about hybrid products, we must admit that Samsung has done an above average job to make this is a usable feature. The static was unnoticeable and the quality was actually quite decent. As always, we don’t recommend you use this for any serious work. A dedicated recorder will always be better than an implemented solution such as this one, unless the manufacturer has taken appropriate precautions to make all the features inside a product just as powerful.

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