Philips SA2110 1 GB

Author's product rating:   

Sound Quality	Excellent
Ease of Use	Very Easy
Look & Design	Excellent
Range of Features	Diverse
Value for Money	Excellent

Advantages:	price, looks, battery life !  !
Disadvantages:	if people dont use it   :  (

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Last year, I bought this mp3 player for my mum. It was her birthday and I didn't know what to get her, so I thought what better than something she wont know how to use and will never use even if she could use it anyway.
So I was looking on eBay for a cheap mp3 player, when I came across this one. I bought it for just under £15, which is quite cheap as there still in shops for about £20 now.
My main purchase decision was that it looked good, and also it was a Philips, a brand my mum would have actually heard of, I mean If I got her an ipod shed just think that was the netto of mp3 players, so Philips was defiantly a sensible choice.

Another tipping point of purchase, was that this has 1gb of memory, this is really quite good as most of these little mp3 players only have 512 and some just 128mb of space, so 1gb defiantly sounded good.

The design of this is quite a compact little oval shaped device. Its body is silver and white, with a black section around the screen. The screen is small, however easy to read what songs to play and to navigate through the menus.
At the end of one side, the lid comes off so that this can plug directly into a computers USB port, its so easy to put songs onto, however I don't think my mum did ever manage it because when I recently checked what was on there, it was the exact same songs I had put on it for her in the first place.

The best thing about this must be its battery life, a massive 10 hours actually. So this could easily last you quite a few days as you probably wont listen to it all day every day.

Another great thing, in my opinion, is that it takes just 1 AAA battery. Now some people might prefer how an ipod has a built in battery, which you never have to change and you just plug it in and charge it.
However I prefer this 1 AAA option. This way when you think your going to need another battery you just take one with you, where ever your going and when the other runs out, just pop a new one in. its just so, much easier.
Lets say for example, you took an ipod on holiday and its battery ran out, there's nothing you can do, unless you took a laptop and a USB wire, however with this mp3 player, just pop out to your local holiday resort shop, buy an AAA battery, which are available in pretty much any country, and your sorted.

Another thin to say about this is that you can change the display language, oh the joy iv had changing to Chinese and then seeing if I could change it back to English.

The quality of the mp3 is hard to comment on, its rather the quality of the tracks, but every song iv played on here sounds great, and there haven't been any pauses during the songs and so far it hasn't broke yet. However maybe this is due to the little use it clearly has.

This player does come with earphones too, however if your going to use it a lot then you might want to invest in a better pair, there's nothing wrong with these ones, however there a bit basic and I usually buy a quite good pair of earphones if I get a new mp3 player.

Altogether this a really good mp3 player if you want something cheap but does the job well, it also makes a good gift, however when you do give it to somebody your probably best thinking through if they will ever actually use it.