Philips unveils SA3100 boringDAP

You know, we'd accuse Philips of copying someone on this new player design, if it weren't for the fact that just about every DAP manufacturer has a flash player that looks pretty much exactly like this. The new SA3100 sports 1GB or 2GB of flash memory, 1.8-inches of glorious 160 x 128 LCD and the codec barebones like MP3 and DRM-free WMA. There's also yawn-worthy SMV video playback and JPEG viewing, and battery life is equally unexciting, with 10 hours for audio and 2 hours for video. At least you won't get much pocket bulge with the 9mm thickness, and the design is fairly slick. You can pick one up in white or black, at 70€ ($95 US) for 1GB and 100€ ($136) for 2GB.

[Jonathan Keim @ Apr 30th 2007 12:06PM]

Trying to make it more intresesting by losing the conventional space between two words?

"boringDAP"

:-)

[Scooter @ Apr 30th 2007 12:14PM]

with a 2GB iPod Nano costing 149 Euro, this looks competitive.

[Howtobewebsmart @ Apr 30th 2007 12:15PM]

Looks like "a half-way to the iphone" design.

[BoogeyMan @ Apr 30th 2007 12:16PM]

cmon engadget, thats exceptionally harsh :-( especially the first sentence...

[Brice Harel @ Apr 30th 2007 12:34PM]

I work in a school and all the kids have a mobile phone with an mp3 player on it. So do I.

Why should we buy one of these? To be old fashioned?

[Kev50027 @ Apr 30th 2007 12:55PM]

10 Hours of battery life? That's unacceptable! What do they think this is, a 1st Gen iPod? That's so insane, my Samsung YP-T9 has something like 30 hours of battery life.

[PenaltyKillah @ Apr 30th 2007 7:26PM]

Oh pul-peeze... Philips, just stop trying. They had HDD players (yes, minidrive ones) released in 2005 which can only play music and photos, their first video player was a PMC (interface provided by your friends at Micro$oft), and now this Sansa-ish iPod-like crap. Next!

[Magallanes @ May 1st 2007 10:10AM]

Oh no, another Ipod trasvesty!.

[Dylan @ May 2nd 2007 10:11AM]

Just out of interest, how come every other dap under the sun that appears on this site gets a fiar run down of features and design (this site being realativly un-bias andfair being the main reason i come here) but when this one pops up it just gets slander. Honestly reading the above makes me cringe at the total lack of tact in the journalism. Its a perfectly good looking dap, which uses an interface meathod which is proven to be one of the best (the two biggest players in the US, the Sandisk Sansa and iPod BOTH use this wheel input) and the philips firmware is generally quick and responsive (based on older players). What exactly is the problem youhave with this player?

[haggis @ May 3rd 2007 9:49AM]

ipodfanboys ! en-pod!