Call me fickle or easily bored, but I’m looking forward to the day when I’m asked to recommend a cheap, no-nonsense, miniscule MP3 player and I can’t instantly recommend the Sansa Clip. Frankly, I’m tired of saying it. Why can’t someone - even Sandisk - come along and kick it off its bargain-basement pedestal? Sadly, with no new models in Creative’s range of late and only the odd damp squib from Sony and Samsung, I’m beginning to despair of such a thing happening.
Of course, we now have Apple’s latest and most controversial Shuffle (to be reviewed as soon as Apple gets us one), but my brightest new hope is the Philips GoGear SA2940, cheerfully dubbed the ‘Spark’. This is the successor to the GoGear SA2840, which at the time we believed was a fine alternative to the Clip if you wanted more capacity. These days, of course, you can just get a Clip with more flash memory, but luckily Philips hasn’t been caught sitting with its thumb up its collective posterior; the SA2940 addresses some of the complaints we had about its predecessor, and adds a handful of new features to boot.
1 comments:
November 17, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Shiny face shows finger prints. When recording voice, don't move your fingers, it will get heard.
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