Philips GoGear Vibe 4 GB MP3 Video Player with 1.5-Inch Color Screen (Black)

i bought this unit to replace the 3 sansa clips i have. the sansa clip certainly have a problem with their batteries. i don't know why cnet will give them such high rating given the fact that sansa li-ion batteries are among the worst in the industry. all 3 of my sansa clip batteries die in the first month of use.now back to the philips, it certainly sound as good as the sansa. battery last much longer. about 22 hours in my own test. i don't like li-ion battery in general since i travel to foreign country sometimes and it is not possible to charge li-ion battery oversea because of different voltage and electrical outlet configuration.and most important of all, all li-ion batteries only last about 2 years. this make them the most unreliable electronic devices ever. i have some sony walkman cassete players with a lot of moving parts and these devices usually last for a decade if not more. and i always use rechargeable aa batteries.now back to the philips, it is fairly easy to transfer music to the unit. i don't even have to install the software that come with the unit.i use it with the koss ktxpro1 headphone and i can hear all the low mid and high frequency VERY CLEARLY.if the battery does not die within a month like the sansa before, i plan to buy another unit in the near future.UPDATE: i just bought a 2nd unit today from amazon. so far this philips vibe has performed exactly as advertised. i am very happy with it.this unit outperform the sansa clip + as far as i am concerned.

I was unable to upload any inf onto the player with the dvd enclosed in the pkg. Radio reception works ok and that's all I'm able to get. Requested info from seller, no response.

My family wanted to start using Rhapsody, but my iPod Nano wasn't equipped for that so I bought this. I read through the pamphlets, I looked online for instructions, and so on but I could not figure out this thing. I think I finally got 4 songs on it and gave up. Now that I have a new laptop, I can use my iPod again - I will always route for iTunes.I'm sorry, but this device was a pain.

This isn't going to have the same quality as an ipod. The headphones that came with it are horrible. No matter what, þis isn't capable of playing songs without a gap in between. The battery isn't going to last you forever.But here's why I traded in my Nano for this thing:-All of it works decently. The screen is decent. The buttons are decently laid out. The menu is decently intuitive. Nothing wrong with the sound quality that I could hear.-Managing my music playlist through the file manager of any computer: Friend wants me listen to a song, I can plug it in and have them put it on with no fuss. I'm a micromanager of my playlists, song organization, song order, and I often find that iTunes or Windows Media Player are working against me in terms of organization. Add to that, no need to boot up iTunes every time I want to change something. If I could own a computer that ran iTunes without freezing, I wouldn't be writing reviews for $20 mp3 players. Add to that, it's easy to make a backup if everything exactly how it was. I've always got 4 gigs free on my hard drive and it means when this breaks, I'll be able to restore exactly as it was.-Easy to operate from my pocket, without looking: Because we all need to change the song while driving a car or on a really cold day sometimes. There's something about being able to memorize that Demolicious is hitting left-left-down down-right-down x15 or whatever it is.-Sturdy: Feels like a crappy piece of plastic, but I ran an F250 truck over one of these without cracking the screen or breaking the input buttons. Wouldn't recommend testing that again. Sending this through the washing machine broke my screen, but it played and at least I could find Demolicious-Cheap: THIS DEVICE! I LIKE IT! *throws it on the ground, shattering it to pieces* ANOTHER!!

I bought this product due to the positve reviews and apparent features. Should have listened more to the negatives. After a little over two weeks, the unit has started just shutting down after an hour or two of playing music. I keep it in my pocket while I walk, read, etc. and it seems to be getting warm. After it cools off, I have to RESET and only then it comes back to life (just plugging it into the USB cable won't work by itself. The battery seems good - even after two or three hours it's still full bars, but the video is dreadful. Looks like about 50 X 50 pixels. Also, it's a little bit of a pain to stop and start songs. Sometimes I stop a song, try to 'close' music by going to the main menu and then shut down. When I restart music is already resumed and I don't even have the headphones on yet. On the minor annoyances side, it's a little too easy to press two buttons #both sides# at the same time even when just holding the unit. Also, turning it off sometimes just doesn't work - I have to let go and retry a couple times. One last thing - Philips ought to be ashamed of selling a product with only a three to four INCH USB cable - it's next to worthless, but fortunately I have several other 'normal' length cables with the same plug.Basically, this is a product I wish I had NOT purchased. I'm about to see how good customer support is and will update this review.