Although it only weighs 30 grams the Samsung YP-T6Z feels very sturdy indeed, the metal bodied unit seems well built and is ergonomically pleasing for such a small device. The main controls are along the upper edge of the device with the lay / pause button and lock function easily accessed. Both menu and track selection is driven from the joystick to the right of the small 4 line screen, despite having such a small screen the text is readable and aided by a strong cool blue backlight. We found navigation a little fiddly mainly due to the size of our thumbs, perhaps the engineers at Samsung are all 12 years old and this doesn’t cause them issues. Watching LP’s ham fisted attempts at track selection has been a constant source of entertainment this week.

The YP-T6Z supports MP3, WMA, ASF and Ogg playback and we tried both MP3 and Ogg files with good results, its great to see a small flash player supporting Ogg as the Ogg format allows us to compress a bit more to get the most out of the 1gb capacity. Audio quality was good if not stunning and the supplied headphones are a little on the cheap side, but its more than adequate for keeping you entertained while out and about or at the gym.

Samsung grace the YPT6z with plenty of extras too, there is an FM tuner for listening to the radio when you exhaust your MP3 collection and this can also be used a source to record from as the little Samsung also encodes MP3 files either from the radio or the inbuilt microphone.

Loading up the device is quick thanks to the USB 2.0 connection and this also enables the drive to act as a USB key to move almost any kind of file. Battery life is again excellent with us getting almost 20 hours from the single AAA battery even with heavy use of the backlight during device browsing.

Due to its capacity the natural comparison for the Samsung YP-T6Z or Yepp as its seems to have been branded is the Apple Ipod Shuffle, the shuffle also has 1gb of storage but does not support Ogg or have an FM tuner or encoding facilities, plus the big plus for the Yepp is the screen which is something any shuffle user is learning to live without.

Prices at £109, £10 more than the shuffle the Samsung Yepp YP-6ZT is excellent value for money and a feature packed device, perhaps the biggest downside is its size, it’s just so small we do worry about losing it amongst the general clutter of the Lordpercy.com office. We’ll just have to hope Samsung don’t want it back just yet!

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