When we had the downright magnificent opportunity to
toy with Philips' latest PMP line here in the States, we immediately noticed that the GoGear Opus stood out among the rest. The crew over at
TrustedReviews recently spent some quality time with the 8GB version of that very unit, and while they found the audio quality to be "excellent," they seemed rather disappointed -- if not irked -- by everything else in the package. For starters, the whole solution just felt boring, with critics noting that its biggest problem was a lack of "excitement." Granted, none of this would matter at a rock-bottom price point, but for $100, there's an awful lot of competition. As we found during our short time with the player, these folks also noticed that the user interface was simply "old-fashioned," and that video playback was nothing to write home about. The bottom line? Unless you score some kind of spectacular deal, your PMP dollars are probably best spent elsewhere.
posted May 31st 2009 6:37PM
Kitty Higgins SUX.
So the New catch phrase to sell items is now "Go" instead of "i"?
phillip doesnt excite me very much
That's what she said.
Not in the mp3 area at least... have u seen their ambient lighting speakers??
theyre pretty sweet!
Which also costs $100 for the pro gaming speaker set.
Boring? thats a stupid conclusion for an pmp player. i actually prefer an device that does what it was made to do play music and video. I've seen to many times companies trying to take on the fruit company with gimmicky oh i mean "exciting and revolution" UI and completely fail at carry out the simplest task. i take plan and boring any day.
you must be a very boring person..
I agree...for playing music, the PMP is going to be in your pocket the whole time so what does it matter what it looks like as long as it plays fine imo.
I couldn't agree more !!!
Recently on a business trip to Brazil, my plain-vanilla Nokia kept beeping text messages and calls, while a colleagues' iPhone looked all sexy and dandy, but didn't latch on to the radio - not even after a few reboots. Of course I envy him his isolation (while I was still reachable, 24*7)
Before the iFanboys turn iFlamers, let me tell you I love iProducts - for their design and cool concepts. I love my mac because I believe it will outlast most PCs, and not just look cool. However, every product has a primary function, that simply can *never* be compromised.
The Philips GoWhatever playing back stuff while being boring is better than eye-candy that fails to sing.
i prefer a boring PMP that soud great than a cool PMP like the ipod touch than sound less than acceptable.
so, what do you have to say about the iPod shuffle of iPod nano? hmm?
Excellent sound, 8GB, $100.
What's the problem?
It seems these days style over substance is considered a good thing. Apparently the reviewer can't listen to music unless it's on something with a touch screen and a flashy interface. Perhaps Trusted Reviews should rename themselves to Shallow Reviews.
The problem is that I bought a Phillips 8gig MP3 player for less than that about 5 years ago.
Granted, it didn't do video, or have a fancy display (it wasn't color), but it was the same size storage and cheaper.
The only downfall was that it was slow to react when you did have it loaded with songs.
But I still use it, because it trumps my Zune in one very nice way. I can hook it up to any PC, and play music off of it through Winamp using a standard miniusb cable. If I want to play music from my Zune on a PC, I need a Zune specific cable, and I have to have Zune loaded.
After seeing the new ZUNE, this one doesn't have any chance for the PRO users.. maybe some people buy it for their kidz because its very reasonable. As far as i am concerned i can't 2 devices in my pocket.. i want a phone with mp3 plays and 3.5 MM j... so i'll go with N97 for both or the new iphone.. but not a new iphone that only has a 3.2 MP camera and nothing else lol..
wat
Can you stop contradicting yourself? Jeez man
Slow day on engadget... not much new posts.
um.... Hasn't this been out for like years???
nah, they just all look the same.
The thing that annoys me most about my Philips GoGear(sitting on a shelf unused in favour of a Creative Zen) is the slow seek time. If I have a long piece of audio or a movie loaded onto it, it only fast forwards a few seconds at a time, and it doesn't remember your last position.
random thought I here... I'm not sure if lack of quality is my headphones or my PMP. I've got a bricky ol Zune 30, and for headphones I've got some pretty decent KOSS headphones. there's not an insane lack of quality or something, but it's not quite as nice as I'd like it to be. and I don't think it's the mp3's themselves..
I don't see what's so wrong with this though. it'd be a lot nicer to have in my pocket then lets say my zune ;p
Hm, sounds like a very biased review to me. Who's the reviewer? Paris Hilton? It's not pink so I hate it?
The only true negative they could find was that the design didn't resonate with them. Fair enough if they don't like the design, but hey that's a very personal opinion.
They can't even say it's ugly, cause it's way to well build and all.
So based on this they make the hole device down.
Sorry, but this discredits the reviewer, not the device.
M.
Considering all the crappy media players I've seen, I'll take solid and boring any day.
As long as it does it's job (playing high-quality music), what more do you need? I'll take a monochrome display if need be as long as it WORKS.
Philips tag line says - "Sense & Simplicity." So I guess every product from Philips is focused on doing what it is intended to do. On similar lines to what Michael said, that until the gadget does its job with the best results, it should be fine. But I do feel that Philips need to look at making other features more exciting as they too are important.
Anyways, what else can one expect from the Dutch company that likes to keep their products simple, yet effective!
Its Philips that is the boring brand. When have they ever delivered, seriously? Talk about an ugly device, hey lets hire some good designers for once...
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