Philips GoGear SA6045 02 (4GB) Media Player Review

Now it seems that every mid-priced player released onto the market is video enabled. The boundaries are blurring and this is the developing market that Philips’ latest GoGear player is hoping to exploit.

The GoGear comes in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB capacities and, with its extremely reasonably price of £96 for the 4GB player, has Sandisk’s Sansa e260 and iRiver’s Clix 2 firmly in its sights. It’s certainly got a fair few things going for it, not least its large colour screen. At 2.2in it’s considerably bigger than the 1.8in screen on the Sansa and is nearly double the size of the eyeball-straining 1.3in number on the iAudio7.

..With such a low price it’s clearly firing directly at the Sandisk Sansa e200 range of players and, to a certain extent it bests them. In particular, the Philips is the better player for watching video on. The frame rate is smoother and the screen is bigger… In the end it comes down to what you want to do with your media player. For straight out music listening there are better players out there, but if movie playback is a significant consideration then at this price there’s none better than the SA6000 series.

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