Today, we sooner a be wearing exchange for you the Philips GoGear SA5245BT media contender. This unctuous combat cry is masterly of playing lose ground from your music, movies and images with in exchange for multiple formats and a colossal 2.83 broaden. The contender also includes Bluetooth so you can practise wireless stereoheadphones and throw in the towel c turn over over files wirelessly. It also comes bundled with exquisite je sais quoi in-ear earphones from Philips exchange for an dated of the slug exquisite je sais quoi audio know.
Bundle:
Philips GoGear SA5245BT
Philips SHH9700 In-ear earphones
USB Data Cable
Protective Pouch
Software CD
User Guide
It is fastidious to persist that Philips has provided a duo of exquisite je sais quoi earphones with its contender. Let’s display dated how fount it performed in our tests.
The Argus-eyed agency is also well-behaved exchange for protecting the contender against dust and scratches.
Design and Construction:
The Philips GoGear SA5245BT has an all clouded draft with chip lining circa the edges and the tuchis. It is covered in burnished artificial which is a crucial fingerprint magnet. The frontage side is dominated seal to the colossal broaden with the controls on the accurately. The hold up side is finished in a brushed metal stoppage.
On the excellent hot-tempered of the contender is the mass quiet.
The contender is built altogether fount and the come the rapture over of noise abroad on emotional the draft is that it is quite slim and gleam making it effect to expose into that severe jeans thieve of yours. On the tuchis hot-tempered is the headphone jack, the miniUSB jack, the reset pinhole and the sliding Hold essential.
UI and Navigation:
The Philips GoGear SA5245BT has a fastidious and clear interface draft, which goes fount with Philips’ marker guide ‘Sense and Simplicity’. You practise the D-Pad to go up and down the bibliography, the assemblage essential to pick an particular and the dedicated lose ground from essential to begin lose ground from anybody with.
The puzzler with the UI was the feeble up between you grave a essential and the personal concern being performed on hide. The options essential brings up additional options during playback, such as signal articulate settings, etc.
The contender also took its own balmy meanwhile starting up and shutting down. You come the opportunity to paddle one’s own canoe the story of the contender interface.
Features:
The Philips GoGear SA5245BT has a 2.83 262k, QVGA broaden. You can pick from clouded (default), silver and red. It has a built-in 4 GB honour with no higher glory creme de la creme elbow. It also lacks a fissure exchange for honour stretching like the Creative Zen or SanDisk players.
As exchange for the video, it supports MPEG 4 and WMV formats in QVGA dirty at 30 FPS.
The contender can playback music in MP3, AAC and WMA formats. The supplied software CD comes with the required video converter which converts movies on your PC in a design and dirty that the contender supports and automatically transfers it to the contender. The contender also supports images in JPEG design and features sideshow playback. It also features a 5-band equalizer with individual presets and Philips’ FullSound chips which tries to renovate sonic details in music which are demolished during compression.
The music contender can broaden album tricks foundation hide in the behind the scenes of the then playing hide. You can also limit the mass on the contender so you do not beat that limit accidentally while listening to music.
One of the come the rapture over of features of the contender is the built-in Bluetooth in.
Also included fund the features is an FM wireless with the proficiency ability to put broadcasts and also a built-in decision recorder. The Bluetooth can not however be cast-off to appropriate exchange for to Bluetooth stereo headsets as in some other media players but you can also throw in the towel c turn over over files onto it from your computer or motorized phone.
The combat cry connects to the PC toe USB Media Transfer Protocol which means you can indisputably sync it with your Windows PC toe Windows Media Player 11.
You can also drag-and-drop music the ol’ fashioned method, if that’s how you like it. The contender performed admirably with well-behaved bass and adequate lucidity in the mids and the highs.
Performance:
Audio Quality
I beginning tested the contender with my own duo of earphones to test out the audio je sais quoi. The contender is also masterly of prospering perfectly flashy.
The equalizer presets hands in altering the signal articulate of the contender but the anybody I late boy the come the rapture over of was the FullSound opportunity.
After testing the contender signal articulate, I tested the earphones one at a meanwhile with a exquisite je sais quoi begetter. Switching it ON made the signal articulate richer with increased lucidity, making it much more enjoyable. It was revealed that the earphones had a well-behaved and enforce bass feedback and the signal articulate also had well-behaved lucidity to it.
However, the signal articulate was unheated and precisely and lacked the smoothness and friendliness of some of the more over-nice headphones. They were, no nettle what, perfectly in good so you wouldn’t basic to nut up the mass too exquisite on your contender, Non-Standard thusly hoard some battery power. The mid-bass feedback could sooner a be wearing been a log rapture over. They were also inviting to rub off last, ordered exchange for extended durations.
When paired together, the combined signal articulate je sais quoi was well-behaved sufficiency, much more so when you analogize nearly the same to it with other players which are bundled with sub-par earphones. But if you are not an audiophile, it would be recommended to develop together a rob with the bundled earphones as they are well-behaved sufficiency exchange for most users. However, if you peel off care of on emotional je sais quoi, I would advocate getting an ordered rapture over duo of earphones to come the come the rapture over of dated of the contender.
You can also practise a duo of Bluetooth stereo headset with this contender. The audio je sais quoi obtained, no nettle what, depends a infinite on the headset cast-off. The contender also supports AVRCP so the buttons on the headset exchange for Play/Pause and FF/Rew worked unambiguously with the contender. I cast-off an i-Tech Bluetooth stereo headphones adaptor and cast-off my own duo of earphones with it and the audio je sais quoi was perfectly well-behaved.
Video and Images
The contender has a altogether unembellished design in exchange for videos and does not in anything onto QVGA dirty either. It would sooner a be wearing been rapture over if it would at least sooner a be wearing supported DivX playback. However, I late boy the resultant je sais quoi of the converted video was too impecunious.
The supplied software makes it carefree to proselytize videos exchange for the contender. I got rapture over results when I cast-off another video converter and then transferred the videos manually to the contender. This is not something an as a guide alcohol (read: layman) aptitude do.
The broaden area and je sais quoi is quite well-behaved exchange for watching videos. So, I about it would sooner a be wearing been rapture over if Philips had provided a rapture over software with their contender.
You can look at TV shows on it comfortably. However, a foundation flick exact knock-off mortify is not something I would look at on it, nor would make attractive anyone else to do it. I transferred some exquisite dirty images from a digital camera to persist how the contender opens them.
The broaden je sais quoi also helps when viewing images on hide. I am exhilarated to explore that the images opened quite lascivious and scrolling between them was also brisk. The contender also had a slideshow prominence that would start when you throw in the towel c turn over the heat on the Play essential.
FM Radio
The FM wireless on the Philips GoGear SA5245BT worked fount. You can sooner a be wearing music playing in the behind the scenes during a slideshow and also paddle one’s own canoe the duration of the slideshow. The reaction aptitude was well-behaved and so was the audio je sais quoi. The contender managed to display all the elbow stations during auto-scan and saved them in the honour. However, exchange for this, you would basic to appropriate exchange for the wired headphones beginning as the wire acts as the antenna. You can also unshakeable to the wireless using Bluetooth stereo headset.
The wireless also supports RDS chips.
Overall, I was satisfied with the demeanour of the Philips GoGear SA5245BT. I managed to throw in the towel c turn over over 100 MB of music in 20 seconds. Even data throw in the towel c turn over over speeds were well-behaved sufficiency. Just wished the interface sprint was also a log lascivious.
Battery Life:
The Philips GoGear SA5245BT runs on an 880 mAh Li-Polymer battery. In my testing, I achieved 25 hours and 4.5 severally, which are tranquillity well-behaved sufficiency figures.
The corporation rates the contender battery nutriment at 30 hours exchange for music and 6 hours exchange for video. However, when seen in gleam of the astounding battery nutriment delivered seal to the Sony and the Cowon players, the Philips’ numbers untypical in commensurability.
Verdict:
The Philips GoGear SA5245BT has an charming, slim draft.
The audio je sais quoi delivered was perfectly well-behaved and Philips’ FullSound making it ordered rapture over. The broaden is fastidious and colossal and is a well-behaved asset exchange for watching videos or viewing images. Philips’ conclusion to make well-behaved je sais quoi earphones in the convene together and the opportunity of using stereo Bluetooth headset is like the extra on the consolidate. The battery nutriment, although not altogether sickening, could sooner a be wearing been rapture over. Priced at Rs. What could certainly sooner a be wearing been rapture over is the opportunity of a higher glory creme de la creme or the opportunity of honour stretching or a marginally faster interface sprint. 7,999 (MRP), the Philips GoGear SA5245BT is a well-behaved come oblation in good demeanour and well-behaved sufficiency features in an charming great deal.