Philips GoGear Muse 16 GB MP3 Player (Silver) Review

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(More customer reviews)The Philips GoGear is a nice AV player that doesn't hurt your pocket too much.
First of all, it has a great sound quality. The Philips FullSound technology enriches the sound and the earphones that come with the player are great (I have AKG K330 earphones which are great, and I now use the Philips earphones).
Video quality is good - screen view is crispy. the only bad thing is that you can hardly see it in direct sun light. The player has HDMI exit which I haven't tried yet.
Lets talk about the player's interface: I bought this player after having Microsoft Zune 120 for a year (it dies after a year of moderate use... Microsoft). The Zune had a great intuitive interface. I can't say this about the GoGear. In Philips' player you can't choose songs by their genre and you can't add songs to "now playing" playlist.
One more thing is that if you set the volume limit, you can't cancel it while listening to the radio. You have to go back to "Music" and cancel it.
The touch screen is the player's weakest link. Although it supposed to be capacitive it has poor and inaccurate response. Scrolling to 'Z' in song names or artists names is really frustrating.
The software that comes with the player is Philips Songbird. After using Microsoft Zune software I understand how poor looking is the software - and hence, much less intuitive. One thing that annoyed me is that although while installing the software I didn't want the software to update media info from the Internet - as soon as I added my libraries to the software it started to chance the organization and the ID3 tags of the files. As soon as I understood that I started using Windows Media Player as my media organizer.
Radio - I has a nice feature in which it auto tunes the presets. It also has RDS. In the American model, the radio recording feature is diabled.
To sum up, this could have been a great player if the screen was of better quality. Maybe next hardware updates will improve the player's user interface.

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