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Samsung has been discretely showing off its upcoming S2 and S3 MP3 players since March, but the company finally let full specs on the Zen Stone and iPod Nano competitors drop on Wednesday. Both players are being marketed as much for their stylish designs as for what’s inside.

With an obvious nod to the Creative Zen Stone, the S2 “Pebble” will come in the shape of a rounded-edge stone, available in black, white, red, green, and purple. Rather than an LCD screen, it uses a blinking LED hidden in the bottom to flash patterns representing which playback modes have been selected – a kind of Morse code for PMPs. It comes only in 1GB capacity, and Samsung claims the rechargeable lithium-polymer battery should last for a full 13 hours of playback, almost enough to listen to a full 1GB worth of music.