- #Philips gogear mp3 player wont leave phillips screen drivers#
- #Philips gogear mp3 player wont leave phillips screen full#
This means if you are in the top-level menu for example, then you don't need to see the menu button, and so it is not shown. In what might be perhaps confusing to some in the beginning, but overall actually quite a clever element of the player, only the controls available or needed are lit on the front of the device. The style and design of the unit is its biggest wow factor with its blue backlit buttons that appear out of nowhere when you touch it. The unit is slightly on the large side when it comes to the design although this doesn't stop it offering a 65k colour screen so you can view images stored on the device and a touch sensitive control panel that is hidden behind the players gloss black front.
#Philips gogear mp3 player wont leave phillips screen full#
The Go Gear HDD6230 to give it its full title is a 30GB hard drive based MP3 player that comes in a small package. So we were intrigued when the HD6230 arrived in the office. One minute they are great, the next not so hot.
It’s a beautiful MP3/video player that can be enjoyed with headphones or using the integrated speaker.įor $100, I was quite impressed at the SA6145, especially for its large and vibrant 3.5″ screen and built-in speakers.(Pocket-lint) - Philips is yet another consumer electronics manufacturer to offer its very own MP3 player, unlike every other manufacturer who isn't Apple, Philips' job so far has been mixed. Auto tuning in radio presets is very quick. You can listen to radio with 20 presets and voice recording.
#Philips gogear mp3 player wont leave phillips screen drivers#
The built-in speaker uses a Class D amplifier to produce very good sound-there’s actually 2 full-range speaker drivers in the SA6145 The sound was amazing clear and all ranges and virtually distortion free. The SA6145’s sound quality is excellent, with very nice sound reproduction across mids and highs there’s a good EQ selection-presets plus a customizable EQ. Philips device manager can be used to perform firmware updates or do a player recovery. There’s also a program called “Philips device manager + Philips Media converter” which can be downloaded from or from the supplied CD. It’ll charge on other OS but won’t appear in the Finder on Macs for instance. WMV movies can be transferred to the SA6145, other formats can be converted to WMV with the supplied Media Converter for Philips software.Ī standard mini-USB cable is used, with MTP support-Windows is the only OS supported officially by Philips-so you can use Windows Media Player. Video playback is good with smooth motion and frame rate at 30fps. When viewing photos you can use the up/down buttons to rotate the currently displayed image-a novel touch. Photos are displayed in a grid view and are viewed in a landscape orientation,slideshow feature is basic but is effective in use. There’s also a album art view:album covers in a grid like view. The song display looks a lot like the iPod’s. Information displayed is artist/album/song name and album art. Playback features are good-the basics of playing selecting songs is familar if you’ve used other players. The SA6145 plays both unprotected (non-DRM) and DRM MP3/WMA music files-2 popular file formats for digital music. This makes scrolling through the song list very fast. You can choose to move through your playlist one song or video at a time or just press and hold down a little harder to SuperScroll swiftly to your desired file.” “Double action search keys allow easy speed control when scrolling through large libraries. One neat feature is SuperScroll-described by Philips as: The left and right buttons of the 4-way navigator move between menu screens-unconventional but quite easy to master. Philip’s GoGear interface is quite nice, with graphics reminiscent of iPods-all features are displayed as icons on the left, when you select a feature on the left a bigger version of the icon slides out and appears on the right. The screen is very beautiful-3.5″ and is QVGA, 320x 400 pixels.Ģ full range speakers are built-in to the SA6145, with the speaker grilles visible on each side of the display. You can use the playlist button for creating on-the-go playlists (without the need for software) when a song’s selected in the music list screen.Ī 4-way navigator is on the right with a on/off, play pause button in the middle. There are separate menu and playlist buttons for creating playlists (without the need for software):the menu button above the main controls,playlist button on the right side. The SA6145 has volume buttons on the top, and a hold switch on the bottom. Philips GoGear SA6145 is a 4GB MP3/video player with a impressive 3.5″ screen and built-in speaker in a appealing black color with silver around the sides. Price paid-on sale for $99 (was $250) at Domayne
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