Philips GoGear Spark SA2940/02 4GB Colour Display 1.5" MP3 Player: Amazon.co.uk: Audio & MP3

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Product Dimensions: 14.6 x 4.3 x 15 cm ; 200 g
Boxed-product Weight: 454 g
Item model number: SA2940/02
ASIN: B001JR3CLW
Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 3 Dec 2008

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)

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Entertainment with Style with FullSound to bring MP3 music to life
Philips GoGear Spark 4GB MP3 player makes it hip to be square. Album art makes the player glow while your songs are empowered by Philips patented FullSound technology. Show off your player with your photos as the screensaver. If you need more storage capacity than 2GB or would like an FM radio included, the Philips GoGear Spark also comes in 8GB and FM radio versions.

FullSound technology restores sonic
details in compressed MP3 music

FullSound to bring a CD listening experience to MP3
Philips' innovative FullSound technology faithfully restores sonic details to compressed MP3 music, dramatically enriching and enhancing it, so you can experience CD music without any distortion. Based on an audio post-processing algorithm, FullSound combines Philips' renowned expertise in music reproduction with the power of the latest generation Digital Signal Processor (DSP). The result is fuller bass with more depth and impact, boosted voice and instrument clarity, and rich detail. Rediscover your compressed MP3 music in true-to-life sound that will touch your soul and move your feet.

MP3 and WMA playback
Audio compression technology allows large digital music files to be reduced up to 10 times in size without radically degrading their audio quality. MP3 or WMA are two of the compression formats that let you enjoy a world of digital music on your GoGear player. Download MP3 or WMA songs from authorised music sites on the Internet or create your own MP3 or WMA music files by ripping your audio CDs and transferring them onto your player.

Audible.com features digital audiobooks and more
Audible.com is your destination for the widest selection of digital audiobooks, magazines, radio shows, stand-up comedy and more available for download. Enjoy books in the car, at the gym or around the house. Authors and icons read their own works, and famous actors narrate your favourite titles. At Audible.com you can browse and sample over 60,000 selections, including the latest bestsellers and timeless classics.

View album art on the 1.5 inch colour screen
View album art on the 1.5"
colour screen

Voice recording to take notes or record anything, anytime
Voice recording converts your GoGear player into a handy dictation machine. Besides playing music, you can also record notes or reminders for work or school, record shopping lists and phone numbers - even song lyrics. By pressing the recording button and speaking into the built-in microphone, voice messages are compressed and stored in the built-in internal memory. Voice recording gives you a highly portable voice recorder allowing you to record anything, anytime and anywhere!

1.5" Full colour display for easy navigation and album art
1.5" full colour screen allows you to navigate easily within the control menu or the music files of your GoGear player. Plus, you can flip through your photo collection while enjoying your music on the go.

Personalised slideshows to accompany your music listening
Just as you like to express yourself through your accessories and gadgets, the personalised slideshow lets your GoGear player be a further expression of you while you are on the move. Select any image or set of images you want as your slideshow. When the GoGear is idle, your personalised slideshow will come alive, showing off your photos to your friends and the people around you.

view a personalised slide show
View personalised slideshows

Direct charging from PC via USB
Charge your GoGear player battery quickly and easily from your PC via USB. Connect your player to your PC with the cable provided and follow the necessary prompts and your PC will provide the power for charging your player within a few seconds. Enjoy the convenience of doing away with a separate recharger.

Folder view to organise and view media files as you do on your PC
Folder view is an optional directory view of the GoGear player that lets you view all the files on your player as if it were a computer. Once you select Folder view, opening any supported file (i.e. music, pictures or videos) is as easy as selecting the file and hitting Play.

Drag and drop your songs easily - no software needed
You can quickly and easily copy your music collection from your PC to your GoGear player. Simply connect your GoGear to your PC while in Windows® Explorer, select the songs or the folders that you want to copy to your player, then drag the selected files to the GoGear's music folder. It is that simple. No additional software installation is needed!

Storage capacity based on 4 minutes per song and 64 kbps WMA or 128 kbps MP3 encoding. Actual transfer speed may vary based on your operating system and software configuration.

1GB = 1 billion bytes; available storage capacity will be less. Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced.

*Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings.

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102 of 103 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Just what I have been lookign for! 22 July 2009

By Mr. George Johnson VINE™ VOICE

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I have owned an iPod shuffle, several Archos PMPs and an iRiver player over the years but nothing compares to how much has been crammed into this fantastic little gadget!

This player has practicaly everything you need in a tiny mini-compact MP3 player. You have all your standard shuffle, playlist, display stuff you would expect, plus some neat little things like folder display, so you can simply pull the MP3 file from the disk directly without the need to have it's tags set correctly. You can display any picture slide show during music playback, nice little feature.

The unit measures about 7cm x 7cm x 0.75cm, the enture front panel is the typical plastic covering, it is not touch screen. Volume control down one side, power and lock on the other. Phone socket and microphone on the top.

It will display JPG and GIF easily and I threw some reasonably large 5MB JPGs ( 4200x3000 px) at it and it only took about 2-3 secs to "re-code" them and display, best to stick to smaller ones around the 400x400px size for super fast results.

The playback is one of the best I have heard in the ultra cheap devices and far outstrips the limited sound quality from any iPod I have heard. You get preset EQ and you can set your own custom EQ settings.

After 6 hours of continous playback I think one bar has dropped on the battery indicator which suggest about 12-15 hours of playback on a 45 min charge, not bad for a gadget with full colour screen.

The navigation is via the fron screen, whereby the entire front screen rocks in all 4 directions to whatever the buttons have been set to on screen so, up for last track, down to for next, pause/play on the right, luckily they have put a lock on the unit, else you would be pushing the buttons while it was in your pocket...

Which brings me to the one major, serious failign of this wondeful device, the clip! It is a piece of utter rubbish! The worst designed thing ever! You thread a plastic clip through a rubber cover, then slid the device into the rubber cover, but only just about enough to cover the outside of the unit, not the front screen though. So one swift jolt and the whole thing falls out and on the floor if the earphone plug doesn't hold it from doing so.

Connectivity is perfect. I utterly despise having to use specific software for MP3 players, I want simply connect and copy type devices, I own a Mac and hate iTunes with a passion, it is seriously awful. This device is perfect, plugged it into my Mac at home and my Linxu box at work, came up perfect and simply left me copy my files over and unplug and go. Even better they use standard size mini-USB plug, which 90% of the cameras and players use all over the world! Well done for a great design decision, makes up for the rubbish clip thingy!

A fantastic device, well worth every single penny, but seriously let down by what can only have been a last minute design thought, adding a clip to a tiny portable device! Despite the utter rubbish clip thingy, it has now replaced my iPod shuffle.

Only 4 stars, the rubiish clip ( come on its always going to be carried about for flip's sake! ), docked it a star!

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A real pleasure 24 July 2009

By G. Horsham TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE

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What a great little MP3 player and I have to admit I have got quite attached to it in a very short space of time.

Out of the box it is roughly 4cm square and about 1cm deep; possibly it is a bit too small. It comes with a fairly average set of headphones, a rubber protective holder (and belt clip) and a very short, but standard connector size, USB connector cable. It has 4Gb of memory, although a small part of that contains the device software and manual if you want it. You don't need this though as you just drag and drop the files you want (oh so easy).

The Phillips SA2940 looks good, but looks even better when it is switched on. The colour display can be customised to have your own wallpaper, have a personalised slideshow; you can store pictures on this which can then be used as a slide show.
Even numerous different screensavers can be selected; digital/analogue clock; current track name/artwork; graphic equaliser etc. Sound quality is about as good as you'd want from an MP3 player. It even has a voice recorder and playback!

Navigation of the menus is child's play; I did not even check the manual to work out what was what. The clear screen cover acts as a simple menu up/down/forward back push selector. It is quite sensitive, so you need to click the lock switch to lock the selectors if you put it in your pocket (volume up/down still works). There are a number of other personalisation's you can do too; repeat a track once or forever; shuffle tracks; play by genre, album, artist or playlist. All in all vary well thought out.

One huge benefit for me is that there are no batteries; purely a USB chargeable MP3 player. My only concern is the battery life. It claims that it can last up to 30 hours. Possibly true if you have minimal screen displays when active. I had a clock showing at all times whilst listening to several albums and changing configurations - the battery indicator showed half full after only 6 hours; still that is not too bad as I am never far from a computer and I can always disable the screensaver (which will stop the battery being eaten up so quickly)

It may not have the robust feel of an iPod or the popular appeal either, but if you want something slightly different that is a great little MP3 player with a few good bells and whistles, then this is for you.

Overall, and for the price too, top marks.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Small, Cute, Easy to Use, most importantly SOUNDS GOOD! 3 Nov 2009

By Mr. Hm Bennett VINE™ VOICE

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This is a great little device at an excellent price.

The SIZE is EXCELLENT. There are negatives to that fact i.e. the small display, but you can't have everything.

The MENU system is GREAT and the use of screen- clicking for navigation works reliably and is nice and simple.

Getting music from your PC to the Player is also EASY - Drag and Drop!

Best of all, the SOUND is EXCELLENT - far better than an Ipod, particularly if you use your own quality headphones.

If this is your budget, there's no better place to put your money.

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