Easily lost among the slew of announcements made by Samsung today: The company has two new modestly-priced portable media players, the R1 and the R0. The R1, which should be shipping any day now, comes in 8GB ($149.99) and 16GB ($179.99) and the R0, which will be available in April, comes in 8GB ($99.99) and 16GB ($129.99), as well.

I got a chance to play with both players briefly today at the Samsung event in NYC. The R1 is minute and features a touch-screen, while the not-quite-as-small R0 uses physical buttons below its display. These are simple players meant to compete with the iPod nano; don't be fooled by the touch-screen--this is not an iPod touch competitor.

The R1 features a 2.7-inch OVGA touch display, laudable file support (MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, PNG, GIF, SWF, WMV, H.264, DivX, MPEG4, FM radio--tuner and recorder, Bluetooth 2.0 support, and a hard-to-describe DJ-scratching widget that lets you play DJ with your music. The R0 has a slightly smaller screen (2.6-inches), the same basic file support, FM tuner (no recorder), and, according to Samsung, slightly better battery life than the R1 (25 hours versus 30).

PCMag should have both of the devices in-house soon; look for our reviews this spring.