You can leave a good old "shocking performance" up to Samsung, though. They hardly ever ceased to amaze us with seemingly-random new units popping up like mushrooms on a two-week old peanut butter sandwich. Does anyone remember the magic appearance of the YH-T8 and YH-Jx0 series of last year? What to think of the introduction of the Z5 during last January’s CES? Well...even Samsung didn’t seem willing to introduce some potentially-interesting stuff during this CeBIT. Or maybe we’ve missed out on something superbly-awesome somehow.

All I could spot (at the end of a very tiring day, that was soon to be followed by a maniacal death trip to the center of Hannover in order to find my temporary "new home") was something called the "YP-F2"... yes, as the name suggests it’s indeed pretty much a successor to the F1-concept. Sligthly less curved in terms of design, that is. Nothing too exciting to report on here: you’ve got your basic 512MB/1GB/2GB worth of built-in flash memory, MP3/WMA/Ogg Vorbis support, a 3-line negative type LCD screen, 12 hours worth of playback time on average (per built-in li-polymer battery recharge) and optional FM tuner (YP-F2R edition).


Oh, and the YP-U2 also made a reappearance. Nothing to say about that one that we haven’t already told you before, sadly enough. It still has the weird translucent USB cap with blue built-in blinking LEDs, a 4-line negative type LCD screen and a suggested battery life of 13 hours per charge. Whoop-di-doo.

Yup, the YP-P1 was there again as well... so were the D1, T8, the new T7... but we tend to prefer really new stuff over yesterday’s bread.

All in all, the first day at CeBIT wasn’t really worth too much of a fuzz... maybe due to my rapidly-progressing fatigue or just "bad karma" but it just felt kind of "hollow" today. Sure, there were a few Origami devices here and there – not exciting enough to report on just yet – and I got to talk to my colleagues from GenerationMP3 and TrustedReviews... but there was no big "bombshell"effect to be found within either one of these events.

The only thing really worth a full, eloborate news post would have to be New Media Life’s TAVI PMP... which really managed to impress me (partly thanks to a great representative who obviously was really into his material). We’ll save that one, along with some less-valueable scraps for later on today /tomorrow, though. Martin (from iAudiophile) will be enforcing our CeBIT crew (doubling the number of attending DAPreview crew members) so hopefully we can get some useful stuff out some useful persons for a change.