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Philips GoGear SA2840 4Gb MP3 Player

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Technical Details

Enjoy MP3 and WMA playback
Make voice recordings
Fast downloads from your PC via USB 2.0*
Up to 20 hours' music playback
Simply drag and drop your songs - no software needed
Plug and play data storage
Equalizer for optimised sound to suit your music style
Folder view to find songs in a simple, fast way
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Product details

Item Weight: 27 g
Boxed-product Weight: 454 g
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Item model number: SA2840
ASIN: B00170KWUU
Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 8 Jun 2007

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 45,352 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Digital music - anytime with FullSound for superb audio quality
Featuring Philips patented FullSound technology, the Philips GoGear digital audio player SA2840 brings the best possible audio quality to your music. Enjoy your MP3 and WMA music with this fun-sized audio player on the go. 2Gb version SA2820 also available.

What is it?
Philips’ patented FullSound technology is based on an audio post-processing algorithm. It combines Philips’ renowned expertise in music reproduction with the power of the latest generation Digital Signal Processor (DSP). The result is enhanced sound that carries the rich details, impact and emotion that would otherwise remain unnoticed in MP3 music.

Why do I need it?
Rediscover your MP3 music in enriched and enlivened sound that will touch your soul and move your feet. With FullSound, the extensive sonic details of your music are fully revealed, while ensuring perfect clarity and balance.

Benefits of FullSound:
Fuller bass with greater depth and impact
Restored sense of spaciousness that is lacking in compressed audio
Enhanced sound precision and detail

How does it work?
FullSound’s Digital Signal Processor analyzes the music signal and dynamically enhances its frequency spectrum and definition. It reprocesses the signal, performing over 10 million operations per second before delivering perfectly enriched sound to your earphones or speaker. What you will hear is fuller bass with more depth and impact, a boost in clarity of voices and instruments, as well as energized, true-to-life sound. With FullSound, you can enjoy rich and immersive sound from eve! n the smallest sound system.

Interface and navigation
Find that tune in seconds! SuperScroll provides fast and precise navigation to your favourite songs. You can choose to move through your playlist one song at a time or just press and hold down a little longer to SuperScroll swiftly to your desired track.
Audio
Enjoying your GoGear device is simple with PlaysForSure which ensures compatibility with Windows Media Player and Windows XP. Using Windows Media player you can easily manage music on your GoGear digital audio player and auto-synchronize your PC music collection.
Dimensions
Check out Philips’ range of sleek flash audio devices for all your entertainment on the go. Not only are they convenient and attractive but they are also slim and lightweight to easily fit in your pocket. SA2840 dimensions (WxDxH): 41 x 41 x 15.
MP3 accessories
Philips offers a variety of optional accessories to add further versatility to your GoGear experience. From an extensive range of headphones to docking solutions and from portable speakers to carry cases.
Power
Up to 20 hours audio or 4 hours video play time on internal battery. Rechargeable via USB, batteries included.

Box Contents

CD-ROM (GOGEAR PLAYER)

USB cable for SA40xx

Black Neckstrap for general SA

2008 Good, low-cost headphones

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SO FAR SO GOOD, 2 July 2008

S. J. Chapman (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips GoGear SA2840 4Gb MP3 Player (Electronics)

I've had it for about a month and so far very pleased with it.

Lots of functionality for such a small item. Very easy to use. As well as the play/menu/volume buttons on the side the whole front panel forms a forward back up down control for menu and track navigation.

Its really easy to drag and drop files on to it, just plug into any PC (I have used it with xp and vista) and its recognised as a storage device, no need to load the software that comes with it. The player recognises the mp3s artist/title info but you can also set up a directory structure if you want. You can then navigate tracks using either their Artist/Title tags or using your directory structure, very useful if you have files without tags.

Build quality seems pretty good for a small plastic unit, so hopefully controls will stand up to repeated use.It looks good, nice mirrored effect on the front. (though this will scratch if I keep putting it in my pocket with keys and change!).

Battery life is very long, I haven't kept proper track of it so I don't know if it is as high as the claimed 20 hrs but it certainly lasts a few days at an hour or two a day, and charges quickly through the usb.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great looking, small, reasonable sound, average features, 18 July 2008

S. J. Manser (Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips GoGear SA2840 4Gb MP3 Player (Electronics)

- Obviously the supplied headphones are low quality, so using this with my �50 Shure ones instead

- Sound quality better than average

- The unit is smaller than a custard-cream, I like that

- Expertly made, shiny front

- No radio, although mentioned in book

- Fast forward very good compared to others

- Rechargeable through USB

- Drag and drop your music via USB, no need for iLunacy or SonicStank :)

BEFORE FIRMWARE UPDATE (v2.04):

- Annoyingly does not resume playing at exactly the same point after pausing for a couple of minutes, like my old Sony Bean did

- Takes a minute to turn on

AFTER FIRMWARE UPDATE (v3.00):

- If re-used within a few minutes it resumes at correct point

- and takes only 11 seconds to start playing

- If left for longer it doesn't resume and you have to go through the menu and choose Resume Last, which starts at the *beginning* of the track you were on, not at the point where you paused it. Weird and annoying, especially if you are playing a long track, like a mix.

Overall I like it but just a bit annoyed about the resume. The update utility and firmware can be downloaded from www.support.philips.com/support, and its very easy to do. Don't dip it in your tea!

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4.0 out of 5 stars What you need to know..., 15 Aug 2008

P. Teeling "Bones" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips GoGear SA2840 4Gb MP3 Player (Electronics)

I bought this a little over a month ago and i feel that there's some things that you should know if you're looking to buy this. I have never written a review before but feel that people should know in detail what they are getting.

I purchased this because I simply wanted a cheap MP3 player, and specifically not an iPod (expensive and my one i bought a few years back has just stopped working over time!) If like me, you have all your music in itunes then this becomes a very big problem. On itunes the songs are all stored as m4a files and when you download them to this player they are not recognised and you cannot play them. This player only recognises MP3 Files which meant I had to go through my entire library and convert them before they would play here. It was very very time consuming and very very frustrating, most probably because this is not explained anywhere and i had to figure it all out for myself!!!

However, once I'd done this, the player works very well. The drag and drop system is very efficient. It can take quite a while to go through all of the artists if, like me, you have a fair amount but the music quality is very good, probably better than my old iPod.

Unfortunately, there is no radio attached, which is a bit rubbish because it tells you that there is

Overall, it gets 4 stars because of the quality of the sound and the fact that it looks fantastic. It could of been higher (in fact it is probably closer to 3.5/5) but the sheer frustration of that earlier problem annoyed me greatly. Decent purchase though

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2.0 out of 5 stars Inaudible - avoid!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Player
I've had my SA2840 about a month. The form factor and controls I find very convenient. That's as good as it gets. Read more

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