Philips is a dominating name for ‘Sense and Simplicity’, caters to offers range of products in different segment of health care, lighting, electronics and the general consumer products. They are people who integrate the technology and design for its customers and have been known for its lifestyle products. In the recent past they have strengthened in the outdoor lighting portfolio as the acquisition of the street lighting control business brings them many steps forward. Quite obvious is Philips GoGear Muse 32GB MP4 Player from the brand so strong and innovative is sure to offer competitive and interesting features. The following review brings out the technology and the features that it enjoys.

Philips GoGear Muse 32GB MP4 Player

Advanced Technology:

Apart from all the basics of the MP4 player that as usual comes in a nice way for this MP4 Player too there are few interesting features that keeps it ahead of the rest. The following are the details of the same.

  • Full sound – This feature is brought into this model to enrich and enhance the sound quality. It functions by compressing the MP3 music based on the audio algorithm and Digital Signal Processor to give a clear, in depth, boosted voice with the rich clarity.
  • HDMI – This technology allows you to watch the movies or the videos without the requirement of conversion. It can be simply connected to obtain a high quality audio and video entertainment on the move.
  • Philips Songbird – Incorporated in all the Go Gear models is this programme that is specially designe3d to discover and play the files in the medial by discovering new artists, music styles and the music directly though this programme.
  • Touch Screen Control – One of the most desired types of control system is the touch screen control where this portable player can be interfaced and navigated with the thought of the fingertip. It is simple and a real sensible way of interfacing that is of course user friendly.
  • Sound Isolation – available in this MP4 Player is the sound isolation headphones that are differentiated from the normal headphones. It is been angled with an acoustic design to seal between the ambient sound and the ear canal, this helps it to eliminate the surround sound and hence the player can be enjoyed to the fullest.
  • Surround for Movies – The surround sound technology is another advanced technology incorporated in this product that automatically analysis the found track and delivers perfect sound to the head phones. It is highly natural and puts you in the center of the viewing experience this is particularly designed for watching movies.

One can be quite sure that such model with improved technology should deliver impressive features and function. Understanding the same is available in the further read.

Display Screen:

Offering a sleek model with the display size of 3.2 inches with full colour and high resolution makes it worthy. It states to be 3.2″ LCD 262K colours and 480 x 320 pixels resolution. The aspect ratio which means video quality without bars is 3:2. The back light function is added advantage.

Size:

The overall dimension in its weight of just 100 grams is 58 x 113 x 9.95 mm corresponds to the height, width and the depth of the player. It is quite compact and handy to move with. Also made to carry in the packing type of D-box where the package contents along with the player are Headphones, USB cable and Quick Start Guide. Philips GoGear Muse 32GB 3.2″ Touch Screen MP4 Player comes with the convenient features like the low battery indication, volume control, firmware upgradeable and the battery charging indication which are offered on the user interface.

Storage / Supported file formats:

It belongs to the built-in NAND flash memory type with the built-in capacity of 32GB. It also offers the same model with the lower memory capacity. Possible with this Philips MP4 Player is to enhance its memory with the support of the external storage as it supports Micro SD memory card slot with the maximum of 32GB capacity. Offering the various functions it supports the file formats without the need for conversion for audio it is MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC, WAV, Ogg Vorbis. The video files are AVI, RM, RMVB, MPG, MPEG 4 while JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG go for the image files.

Connectivity and Power:

Provided in Philips GoGear Muse 32GB Flash MP4 Video Player is the standard type of head phones of 3.5mm. It does offer high speed USB 2.0 connectivity and it does come with HDMI v1.2 mini-connector. With the battery power of 1100 mAh it is been put to function and the battery type is Li-polymer rechargeable battery that gives a life for up to 24 hours of audio playback and 5 hours of video playback. The battery can be charged through the USB or the charger.

Miscellaneous:

Apart from it offers FM radio playback and recording function that also allows up to 20 preset programmes. The green specification of being a lead-free soldered product is an added pride for this product.

Philips GoGear Muse 32GB Media Player – Technical Specification Table

Manufacturer Philips
Model Name / Number GoGear Muse 32GB MP4 Player / SA2MUS32S/02
Media Player Type Audio, Video, Photo player, FM Radio, Voice/FM Recording
Display 3.2? LCD Touchscreen with 262K colours
Resolution 480 x 320 pixels
Control Touch-Sensitive
Dimension (h x w x d) 58 x 113 x 9.95 mm
Weight 100 grams
Back light Yes
Memory capacity 32GB
Supported audio formats MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC, WAV, Ogg Vorbis
Supported video formats AVI, RM, RMVB, MPG, MPEG 4
Supported image formats JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG
Voice recording Yes
FM recording Yes
Audio output Headphone, built-in speaker
Interface USB 2.0
Convenience Battery low indication
Volume control
Firmware upgradeable
Battery charging interface
ID3 tag function Supports song title, artist and album
Slide show Yes
Battery type LI-Polymer Rechargeable
Battery life Up to 24 hours audio or 5 hours video
Equalizer Funk, Hip Hop, Rock, Jazz, Techno, Classical
Green specification Lead free soldered product
Accessories Headphones, USB cable and Quick Start Guide

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