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Great! (2010-02-07)
Great little product, its great looking, simple to use and is of the highest quality

I bought mine from a local store because it was on sale, I didnt expect much of it as it mainly was going to be used in my car with a tape deck adapter since my car doesn't have a CD player.

But I ended up using it nearly every day because it was so great.

I abuse the thing too, I accidentally drop it nearly every time i have it in my jacket pocket and go to pick something off the floor, it gets tossed on my desk or bed.
Also about 2-3 weeks ago I got into a car wreck and had my GoGear with me, it was sitting in the center console and some jerk nearly hit me, I swerved and avoided them but hit an icy patch on the road and the car went sideways before suddenly gripping the road and rolling over 6 or 7 times.. the GoGear was flailing around the car hitting the windshield the dash.. my head (oww) and it was still working when I got out the car. Infact I took it with me to the hospital and listened to it whenever i had a chance.

And it still works!

My only beef with it is that occasionally if I use the radio and try looking for some station the auto tuner didnt pick up it might freeze

Waste of money! (2009-09-21)
I was really excited when I bought this player; I thought it would be awesome. I took it home after buying it and it was nice, cool UI, and it worked with Windows Media Player. The buttons felt plasticy, though.

Unfortunately, after a few weeks, the player got screwy. Windows Media Player had put an XML file named WMPInfo on my player that held information about it. My player got confused and starting calling my songs WMPInfo. When I tried to play them, it said "invalid format" or something like that. Also, it took forever to load the UI once it turned on.

Then it started getting crappy. Windows Media Player was trying to sync songs onto it - and failing!

Then something even worse happened: my songs started randomly stopping and skipping to different parts of the song. That was NOT WMP's fault, it was the player's!
This stupid player is now a paperweight. What a piece of trash.

Don't buy this. It's a ripoff.

Disappointed (2008-03-23)
I bought this GoGear about a week and a half ago and I have been having problems with it since I've had it. The potential of having pictures, video, music and fm tuner for the price was great so I decided to give it a try. It has been frozen more than it has been working. Syncing it has been a joke. When I finally did get something on it, the music sounded ok, the video looked nice, but it's functioning never lasted. I tried to keep an open mind and kept trying to work with it but it was useless. Please don't waste your money on this. I'm taking it back tomorrow. Spend a few more dollars and get the Apple Nano instead.

Great potential, poor interface (2008-03-03)
The SA6045 could be a great player, but the interface is not intuitive and needs a little more work. I use this player primarily for watching videos while commuting and it does OK with half-hour shows. The screen is a decent size and video looks good on it.

However, the player does not easily remember where you've paused when you shut it down or even when you use the menu functions. This makes it inconvenient to watch longer shows since you'd have to FFWD to where you left off. The volume capacity is also low. I have to turn it all the way up to hear anything over the regular noise on the bus. The FM tuner does not reliably capture any stations, at least where I live, which makes this feature useless.

Battery Life has been great, but the sound for music is just OK. The interface does not support album art and I have not used it extensively for music. Philips has updated the firmware once for this device, so I am hopeful that at least some of these problems can be corrected. However, for now, I would not recommend buying this player.

Not all Wine and Roses (2008-01-12)
Compared to the iPod Nano, the Philips 4GB is way overpriced.

After using one for about 30 minutes, I have come to the conclusion that the Philips interface is slow, there is no support for album art (surprising since the player supports photos and video), there is no equalizer, and the volume control has all the subtlety of a moose. The volume ranges from *quiet* to DEAFENING in 4 discrete steps. The overall look-and-feel is very bland.

For $18 more, the 4GB iPod Nano gives you:
* Better Volume Control
* Album Art (via 3D animated Cover Flow)
* Equalizer
* Video and Audio podcasts
* Calendar
* Contact List
* Games (solitaire, etc.)