Best player I've ever had! (Philips GoGear SA3245 4 GB)

Member Name: Devon Day

Product:	Philips GoGear SA3245 4 GB
Date:	08/08/08 (824 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheaper than an iPod with 4GB of space, good quality sound and video quality along with an FM radio.

Disadvantages: Converting video files to SMV format can be a pain in the rear.

Man, where do I start? I've had this product since Sunday (August 3, 2008). So far it has given me to problems whatsoever. I was looking for a new mp3 player that wasn't too cheap but also wasn't too expensive. To tell you the truth, this is the most expensive player that I've ever had. I live in the U.S. so here at my local WalMart it was about $74.88. It plays videos that must first be converted to the SMV format. Don't worry as the software for this comes with the player. The player has an internal lithium-ion battery that can last up to around 20 hours for music playback and 8 hours for video playback, so the packaging says. It plays MP3 and WMA encoded music. It can receive FM radio broadcasts and can hold up to 20 frequency presets. To tell you the truth, it was well worth the money. I'm glad that I didn't buy an iPod as I find this product to be much better than the 3rd Generation nano. I've been an mp3 player user off and on since 2006 when I got my first one. It was a 32MB mp3 player that fell apart it two or three weeks, maybe a month. After that I went back to CD players. Later that year on Christmas, I received a 512MB flash memory mp3 player. Fell apart after about 2 months. I waited 'till Christmas of 2007 to get my third player which had 2GB of flash memory but couldn't hold a charge. It was discarded a couple of days later. On the day it was returned, I got a used 2nd generation iPod shuffle that lasted me the rest of the school year and finally died out recently. It was the best I had at the time. While I still used the shuffle I bought a back up player. It was an RCA pearl with 512MB of flash memory. The volume up button stopped working almost two weeks ago. Luckily I had made $80 and was able to buy a new player. I was gonna get a $78 - $79 Creative Zen, but they were all pink and I'm not into pink, no offense to anyone else. So I looked that day for a black player and found this. Cheaper than the Zen and had 2GB more memory than the zen. 4GB is well worth it for me and so far can hold almost my whole mp3 and wma collection. It plugs into my pc with no problems, charges just fine and does not give me too much crap. With Philip's patented FullSound equalizer setting, I'm able to enjoy near CD quality music with little to no distortion. The included ear buds are of the best quality compared to any other pair of ear buds or headphones I've used. Too bad they hurt my ears after a long period of time. Over all, this is a very good product. To see more, you'll have to but it yourself. BTW it's drag and drop so Linux users (and possibly Mac users) can use this product with little trouble I'm sure.

Summary: Worth trying and hopefully will last a LONG time.

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