Build muscles while you carry around this player (Philips GoGear SA3245 4 GB)

Member Name: geek_squad

Product:	Philips GoGear SA3245 4 GB
Date:	22/07/09 (122 review reads)
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Advantages: Supports adding album photo, battery stamina, user friendly

Disadvantages: Its size is quite big for an audio player, video playback quality is not brilliant

The Philips SA3245 looks promising at first glance, with its rounded and piano black finish that catches your eye.

The ergonomic placing of the controls and its sensitivity makes it easy to operate, in addition to the well designed menu structure, making the player user friendly. The task of scrolling thought the menus are quite straightforward and there are a number of ways which you can use to locate in a single track. One of the methods of search even includes album arts that does make it easy to go through hundres of tracks. The quality of the display screen is quite good, however it is slightly reflectie, making it hard to use in bright sunlight.

When using the supplied headphones, it produces a average quality sound. The bass is decent, but the trebble could be clearer. Being in ear headphones, there is no disortion caused by abnormal levels of background noise. Its file transfer speed is quite amazing, on average taking about a quater of a minute to transfer a few abums. The player supports all audio files in the WAV, WMA and MP3.

The player also supports photos, it is able to load photos quite quickly. The display screen shows photos in clarity with a high level of detail. The photos can also be viewed as slideshows that allows you to play music in the background. Although the player supports quite wide range of video, you can still convert unsupported video formats with the supplied software. Once you do transfer the videos, the playback quality is not fantastic, which is made worse when using the player in intense sunlight.

Its battery stamina is quite impresive, on average providing up to 40 hours of continuous audio playback and 5.5 hours of continuous video playback. In order to fully charge the battery, it takes about 2.5 hours, which is quite good.

Summary: This is not a player to be used heavily for its video playback

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