Philips GoGear Muse personal media player
Posted October 21st, 2009 by admin No Comments »
Review philips‘ media player range has been undergoing something of a renaissance of late. Both its Spark and Opus players struck us as a thoroughly respectable little devices that sounded good, worked well and represented decent value. Now philips has released the Muse and, even from a cursory glance at the spec sheet, it is clear that philips has raised its game.
philips‘ GoGear Muse: an inspired choice?
In the hand, the Muse looks more like a thin mobile phone than a media player. The lettering on the fascia clearly indicates that the device is supposed to be held landscape-style, with the controls to the right of the 3in screen. Yet, even after a week of use we still tended to pick it up and hold it so the controls were at the bottom.
Physically, the Muse is a solid device, and a smart one too, with its brushed metal back and sides and glossy black fascia housing a flush screen. It won’t take up too much pocket space either, measuring up at 110 x 8.9 x 55mm and weighing 95g, which is on a par with Samsung’s P3. Read the rest of this entry »
