Samsung P2

When Samsung's P2 was announced a few months back, there was plenty of buzz over this thin, touch screen based player with Bluetooth 2.0 capabilities.

Anyone who craved an iPhone sans phone wanted to check it out. In the interim, the iPod touch was released, and the P2 lost a bit of its luster. Part of the problem is Samsung's lack of planning : The P2's full Bluetooth capabilities, as well as some seemingly simple options like FM recording, are not yet available.

Early P2 owners won't have the firmware upgrades to answer phone calls through the player (arguably the P2's coolest feature) for at least a month, and the FM recording upgrade won't arrive until January 2008.

Still, the P2 is a devilishly handsome gadget that plays video on a sharp 3 inch screen and boasts the typical array of Samsung's excellent user controls (like a seven band EQ).