Philips GoGear SA1355

The main menu has nothing but 4 icons—music, radio, recordings and folder view. There's no point in going into detail about these options obviously, but lets talk about their sub menus. For music, firstly you have the play modes for setting songs to be shuffled or repeated. The player also has a few presets for an EQ like dance, jazz, funk (why-ever would we need an option like that I'll never know), rock, hip-hop, classic and dance. There's also a manual setting so you can adjust the levels to your preference. Something even stranger is the setting for scroll speed - high, medium and low. Why would we need that? I'm thinking, wouldn't it be better to have the navigation at a realistic speed so it's easier to select songs and move through the menu quickly? I mean would anyone really want to go through the menus slowly?

There's also an option to delete any particular track. Directly from the player and let's not forget the voice recorder for leaving voice memos or if you just like hearing the sound of your own voice (chuckle). Then you have your general settings for power saving, setting intervals for the screen-saver, a time out and sleep timer option, an option for resuming tracks after the player has been shut down and restarted. The SA1355 also allows you to see how much of memory is available. And there's even a factory setting option present.

The radio has manual and auto tune settings and a selection for stereo or mono. You can record from FM as well using the record function. The folder option simply allows you to view the files in their respective folders if you've created any. So there's nothing out of the ordinary here. The good thing is the simple plug and copy/paste feature. No need for any drivers. Just plug it into your PC's USB port and copy/paste your files into the drive.