The Philips GoGear Vibe MP3 player offers music, video, photo, radio and voice recording features, and great battery life for about $50....The design is uninspired and the navigation controls are an insult to common sense....Both the 4GB ($49) and 8GB ($59) models include a 1.5-inch color screen and a useful assortment of features, but the navigation pad's quirky design will send you into...
The Opus isn't a bad looking beast in its own understated way, but there's something conservative about the whole look...If it were a car, the old SA5825 would have been a Vauxhall Vectra, and it wouldn't have hurt Philips to think outside of the box and give us something more like the Insignia this time around...indeed, it's nice to have style, but that just drives the production...
The latest addition to Philips' GoGear line of portable music players is the Philips GoGear Opus 8GB, a sharp-looking and comparatively large 2.8in-screened player...It's nicely palm-sized - while no micro-player, it will fit easily in a pocket - and feels good in the hand...The Philips GoGear Opus 8GB interface is pretty intuitive too, following the usual sub-folder method...
"As a final thought, I would recommend this player for someone who doesn't have an active lifestyle (it skips from time to time if you shake it too much lol..."
"It sounds good and has several different equalization settings (including custom), and even the included earbuds are of decent quality and fairly comfortable..."
"Sure, I can spot defects, bad mastering, identify codecs, and estimate bitrates by..."