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Interface & Features
Like its overall innovative design, this player is complimented with a
simple yet high- tech style user interface. I would like to emphasize
on the term "simple" because it is not as robust as many other products out
there.
As I like to do with these particular products, I like to
provide a section solely on the GUI itself. This section features pics
of the interface and its supported features.
One again, the GUI is very simple in design. While high-tech in style, there's really not much you can do
with it. Yes, this includes the Settings menu as well. With that
said, the player consists of only four main menus...Music, FM Radio, Photo
and Settings. Let's have a closer look at each...
Music
The
player does support tags and music is categorized by Artist, Albums, Tracks,
Genres and Playlists. You can browse through any category by tapping
on the center action button on the touch pad.
The now playing screen looks very nice and
there's a nice graphic equalizer that blends in well with its blue/black
interface.
FM Radio
The
YP-K3 does feature a built-in FM Radio. You can scan through
frequencies and also set the sensitivity and save presets. Unfortunately
though, this player lacks any recording capabilities and you cannot record
from FM Radio.
Photo
Photo viewing is supported and you can browse through your picture files via
thumbnail views and load any selected using the center touch button.
While it is just an extra feature, you'll probably want to not even
bother with it at all. Why? More on this in the performance section of this
review.
Settings
I was honestly quite surprised by the lack of
options on the settings menu. It only consists of four main menus
covering the display, time, language and system settings.
The Display submenu will basically allow you
to turn it on or off and choose your preferred screensaver and idle time...a
pointless feature in my opinion.
The
Time submenu will allow you to set a sleep timer, enable or disable the auto
power off feature and set the current time. Sleep timer can be set
between 15 to 120 minutes.
Language
Now, this player has the highest language support I've seen on such a
product. A total of 15 different languages are supported!
System
Finally, the System Menu has a total of six submenus but there really isn't
much to play with here at all. Basically, you'll enable/disable some
basic features from here, including resume, volume limit and interface
sounds. You'll definitely want to disable the sound effect when
browsing through the interface at it is extremely annoying. Let's just
say that it isn't the most pleasant sound. You
can also set your FM Radio Region and get info on the player from the About
menu.
As
you can see, the interface is very basic and there's not much you can do
with it. It is one of the simplest I've seen in a current player.
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