The "oily" translucent front also causes issues as soon as you step out the door into bright sunshine because you can’t see the display. All sides are formed from plastic and front, back and sides are a different colour, so it feels like there is a lack of design cohesion – the size and shape are good, but if it was a slick metal box it could have been a classic, rather than just another player.
PHILIPS GOGEAR MP3 PLAYER WINDOWS
Windows Media Player is the suggested tool of choice beyond that.įrom a design point of view, you can’t help thinking that Philips have missed a trick.
PHILIPS GOGEAR MP3 PLAYER SOFTWARE
Philips provide software which consists of a device manager, a small app that becomes part of your startup, although it does little other than provide a route for updating firmware as Windows recognises the device straight out of the box, so you don’t need it. A 3.5mm jack on the top of the device provides space to connect the rather lack-lustre bundled headphones, or those of better quality, such as Philips’ excellent SHE9850.Ī Mini-USB connector hides under a cover at the side, which allows charging and the syncing of your tunes, using the supplied cable. This cover is also a four-way controller, more of which later.Īround the sides of the device you’ll find the other control buttons, a multi-function power-play-pause-select button, back, volume, voice record button and hold slider. The front of the device houses a small 128 x 64 OLED screen which shines through a translucent plastic cover. The GoGear SA2820 is the entry-point of the range from Philips, coming in 2GB (about 450 songs) and 4GB versions (under the moniker of SA2840 for the larger version) – size-wise – is certainly small, about half the size of a matchbox, measuring only 41 x 41 x 15mm. You can also turn on Philips FullSound, a feature Philips promises will "restore the sonic details that music compression loses", but which mainly seems to work like stereo widening features on many new MP3 players.(Pocket-lint) - Philips have long had a firm standing in audio products, but can they keep pace with the likes of Apple, Creative and SanDisk to win that coveted space in your pocket? We check out the GoGear SA2820 to find out. Once in a track adjusting settings is straightforward, with options to amend the EQ at your fingertips. The menus are clear and easy to follow, but don't expect any fancy Cover Flow-style album selection. While it would be nice if the Aria could read AAC file too, MP3 might be all most people need. The Aria is compatible with MP3 and WMA audio files, but not the high-quality FLAC files that the more expensive GoGear Opus can play. Video may not be its strong suit, but at its core the GoGear Aria is an MP3 player, and this it can definitely do. A screen of this size and resolution is fine for menu navigation, but that's all. The low resolution display (176x220 pixels) is terrible for watching video, and its poor viewing angle makes handheld sessions difficult to sustain. The resulting video from our test looked and sounded dreadful, and the small screen is far from being suitable for this kind of use. This extensive re-encoding process would be worth it if the results were of a high quality, but they are not.
PHILIPS GOGEAR MP3 PLAYER MP4
We tested the software with a 4.5-minute MP4 file and the re-encoding process took almost twice as long. This means you likely have to re-encode all of your previously collected video materials using the re-encoding software bundled with the player. The Philips Aria sports a 2-inch display and is capable of playing SMV video files, and if you haven't heard of this extension before don't be alarmed, it is a very obscure video codec.
Apple's push into video with its Nano range has forced other companies to follow suit.
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