Philips SA2525

usability, sound, design, battery, value for money

65% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

This is the third FM radio/MP3 I've had in the past 2 years - at least the first 2 (by sanDisk) lasted more than a month before they crapped out! Initially I liked this for ease of use and sound quality, but after a month of gentle use the sound...

I bought this 2GB MP3 "Go Gear" player on amazon for around $30 to replace my old Coby, which I lost. I've had it for about 6 months, and as for playing music, it's fine. But the gripes: Since this mp3 player also functions as a 2gb USB stick, I use...

It was sort of cute while it lasted, now it's frozen in a weird screen. Tried to upgrade it through the Philips website, not gonna happen. Software sucks too. Scrapped it, too much of a hassle trying to get support. Got one for my niece, hers now has...

I bought an extra PHILLIPS ELECTRONICS MP3 Player as a gift for my wife who likes Audio-Books. [...], and ripped some CD Audio-Books from the CDs' to folders on my PC. The downloaded audio-books and ripped CD-books play in the right chapter sequence on...

I've had my Philips Mp3 player for barely a year now... after about 4-5 months the headphones went out. So I hooked up my nice Sony ones that have lasted me about 3 years. Then my Sony headphones went out, or so I thought! Only one ear worked, so I...

As a Linux user I had tried two other MP3 players only to discover they needed genuine Windows or wouldn't load music. With its drag-and-drop interface the SA2525 works fine with either Gnome or KDE; I had loaded music within a minute of opening the...

Shortly after I started using this thing it started going dead seemingly randomly in response to volume and station changes. This happens roughly 5% of the time you change the volume or station and when it does happen you have to pop the battery out/in...

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Have had the product for about 3 weeks now, and use it mainly at the gym to listen to the tv they broadcast over the radio, but also use the mp3 player when nothing on tv. Great sound, good size, good batt. life (8+ hr. use and same batt.) negatives:...