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With the excitement over the news that, come the Summer, the iPod touch 2G would have its A2DP Bluetooth unlocked, it seemed many had forgotten that there are already a fair few PMPs with the ability to hook up with your cordless headphones.  The Samsung YP-P3 is one such device, a capacitive touchscreen PMP with Bluetooth, up to 16GB of onboard storage and DivX/Xvid playback.  Everything USB took a look to see if Samsung have beat Apple to the punch.

In its favor, the YP-P3 sounds great (though wired headphones at least) and has an intuitive, non-Apple-esque GUI.  The range of supported formats on offer is broad, and battery life is good.

Unfortunately, the YP-P3 is let down by overly-compressed sounding Bluetooth A2DP audio, a temperamental touchscreen and poor ID3 support.  The latter is particularly disappointing, considering it’s not like ID3 is anything like a new development (nor the AAC and FLAC files the P3 had issues with).  That’s enough for a partial success, but not the iPod touch grandslam some may have hoped for.