- Music and game on the go-plays MP3 music,built in 5 exciting games
- Enjoy music without interruption-100 second magic electronic skip protection
- Text display for easy navigation-dot matrix display supporting id3 tag
- Extra long battery life-30 hour playback
- Playback of all discs-plays CD,CDR and CDRW discs
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Technical Details
Product details
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Philips is the first company to include a "game" function, making the eXpanium 521 (eXp521) a new and exciting music and game gear. The compact and slim portable MP3 and WMA CD player enhances fun on the go, thanks to an innovative tailor-made chipset featuring five thrilling games built-in. The games include: Snatcher, Muncher, Breaker, Matcher and Copter. Users can enjoy up to 10 hours of their favorite music simultaneously while playing an exciting game -- anytime, anywhere.
Unique and rugged design elements effectively add a gaming feel to the eXp521. A special 3D-textured rim, created by a special knurling process, is featured on the CD door. This allows for users to grip the set tightly while involved in a game. Easy to hold and carry around, the eXp521 flaunts a super slender cross-section of just 21.5mm with the use of a slim CD drive that reduces its height by 20 percent, compared to traditional CD drives.
The eXp521 plays CDs, MP3-CDs and WMA-CDs so users can enjoy various compressed audio format discs. The special software also ensures compatibility on normal CD, CD-R and CD-RW formats.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
I bought Philips Expanium (EXP521) on 8th March 2004 from Amazon,
mainly to listen to MP3 files during travelling to/from work
(London Underground).
mainly to listen to MP3 files during travelling to/from work
(London Underground).
Why Philips EXP521?
Main reason because it was cheaper than others and an important feature:
its 'inbuilt charger’.
Is it any Good?
Well, during my two weeks, I established the followings:
(1) It takes unusually long time to load; sometime it never loads so I had
to turn it off and on again
(2) Frequently, buttons do not respond.
(3) Sometime it skips while it is playing a CD.
(4) Cheap quality Batteries runs up after an hour.
(5) It is heavy.
Even with these disadvantages, I decided to keep it as I did not want to go
through the hassle (and cost) of posting to Amazon, etc.
Now, it has stopped working?
Last Friday, 21st May 2004, it refused to play a CD (few CD tracks), which it
played during the morning. It displayed the following message:
'Pls insert CD or No Audio File'
and after this message it tells me to 'Press GAME to play'
When it played on the morning, it was not perfect - it stopped and plays. I
thought it was the CDR. So, I went home, recharged it and tried several
CDs, some MP3 and some normal CDs, especially the one
that it played for
two months, I get same error message.
It is still under warranty and since I have to go through posting the damn
thing, I HOPE AMAZON gives me another manufacturer’s MP3 player as a
replacement. It will cost me another £5-10 to post it to them.
Final Comments
If you want a player to play simple MP3/CD buy something else, NOT THIS ONE.
If you want wait for it to load a CD for ages/turn it on & off to make a CD work,
skip while it is playing, carry a heavy item, and the associated hassle
of posting to Amazon because it failed, then buy this.
Very bad Experience!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
This is a bargain price for this unit. I bought one last summer and still believe it to be worth the money.
The supplied headphones are reasonable, and the battery life is excellent. You are even supplied with a power adaptor and rechargable batteries.
MP3's are found quickly and are crisp and clear on playback. It has read a mixture of encode rates including VBR with no problems.
Now the negatives: Normal CD playback is awful! Normal CD's sound muffled and often distort for no apparent reason.
Forget about the 'shuffle' feature with MP3's too. It's a nice idea to let it rip around the ten or so albums and play a mixture, but unfortunatley it locks up if it has to jump from say the 1st folder to the last (or anywhere past 5th or 6th).
If you want a no frills, good sounding MP3 player you could do a lot worse, but this one does have a few quirks...
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
I just recently bought this player and it's my first Portable CD-MP3 Player and my review is based on this experience level.
- The look is cool and impressive
- Comes with Mains Adapter and 2 rechargable Philips AAA (HR11/45) 1.2V 700 mA Batteries
- These batteries can be mounted on the battery cover
- Alternatively AA batteries can be used with a different battery cover (supplied)
- The rechargable batteries are automatically charged when the CD Player is off and the Mains adapter is connected.
- The Games are really very primitive and slow
- There are 3 buttons on the CD Player : Vol+ Vol- and DBB
- The DBB provides 2 different Bass Levels which is very good
- The Volume Level is maximum 30. Unfortunately this is not loud enough. It maybe indoors but if you're outside and you really want to hear the music loud, this is not the player for you.
- The sound quality is very good.
- The LCD Display size is just about the right size, not too large and not too small. Scrolls the Title during play.
- For MP3 CD's : Directories on the CD are represented as Albums and numbered (2 digits) so you can't see the name of the directory. The songs within the directories are numbered as tracks (3 digits). ID tags are displayed.
- The headphones length is small but can be connected to the small controller unit (supplied) which can be attached to your shirt pocket or anywhere else. You can pause/start the song/CD Player , select next song, previous song, Stop the CD Player/Song, Increase/decrease Volume and Hold settings.
This small controller interface must be connected to the CD Player obviously.
- On the back side of the player there are 2 switches, ESP switch on/off and for Holding, Resuming the settings.
- The manual comes in a PDF Format on a CD with Musicbox Software
Overall this is a good CD-MP3 Player, except the Volume problem.
That's the reason for one less star.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
load of tripe the ratings here!!!! This is an excellent item
I have had this item since January 2004, it is one of my most prized possessions, it will play WAV files and MP£ files and normal CD's, the battery life is outstanding, the charge... Read more
Published on 16 July 2005 by DJColzz
Warning stay away from this player
I bought this player i put an mp3 cd in and it would play and stop. i thought it was just the cd i had but then i tried
an reg cd it would not play that correctly then it... Read more
an reg cd it would not play that correctly then it... Read more
Published on 4 July 2004 by "nin-lis"
I have no idea what went wrong with this thing...
When I first got this player I loved it. 250+ songs on one cd, perfect earphones and the little remote.
But after a day or two the cracks emerged. Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2004 by Mrs Isobel Easton
Very good player
Excellent Player.
I've got one CD with other 220 songs on it.
The unit is rechargeable but I can see how you might find it confusing if you were a bit slow. Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2004 by Mr. A. Gibbons
Love it!
this cd player is great - at last something that plays cds/cdrs and mp3s and that can run off rechargable batteries. Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2004
Great player but does not play WMA Cd's
This is a good quality player and comes with alot of accessories. It plays normal music cd's fine and MP3 cd's great. But it does not and will not play WMA files. Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2004 by "mattovey100"
Amazing!
This little beauty is amazing. It has everything you could ever want in one package; enough to keep you happy for ages. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2004 by Ms. A. C. Orman
Does not do what it says on the tin
This player was bought specifically for its ability to play WMA files as well as MP3. I was very disappointed to discover it only plays audio and MP3 files. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2004 by Mr. A. Li
