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February 16, 2006

Philips GoGear HDD6320

Philips' original 20GB music player, launched in 2003, really caught our imagination. Its sleek lines and distinct black casing made it stand out from the iPod crowd with a fashion statement all its own.

This 30GB player is every bit as striking, with a black fascia reminiscent of Olympus' m:robe and a brushed-aluminium back. There's a volume control on the right and minimalist on, off and hold keys on the left.

In use, Philips has applied its 'just works' mentality to perfection: we found installation completely headache-free. A full charge takes just four hours because you attach the player to an external power supply as well as to your PC. After that, the setup wizard updates your copy of Windows Media Player to version 10.0 and quickly completes the rest of the install. We didn't even need a restart before we began dragging tracks to the Sync list.

As well as the progress bar on the WMP Sync list, a screen comes up confirming what's being transferred and informing you when the process is complete. It takes seconds for an album to load on to the GoGear.

Philips has included some great playback options – you can select an equaliser effect to suit your chosen genre, while the highly efficient touch-sensitive SuperScroll makes track finding a doddle. Even the earbud headphones are decent.

Adding Jpeg images is almost as easy as transferring music, calling for nothing more taxing than a spot of dragging and dropping. The HDD6320 displays superb colour and fine detail. Album art is imported along with the rest of your music collection and displayed alongside the track and artist details.

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08 Sep 2006 Anonymous verified purchaser

5

Good Points

Good design, high capacity, fashionable appearance.

Bad Points

(1) The synchronisation of ripped CDs using Windows Media Player 10 is unreliable. A significant number of files appear to be corrupted on synchronsiation with the result that the HHD6320 will not play them. This could be a fault with WMP10 as similar problems do not occur with RealPlayer. However, the synchronisation problem only occurred after installing the latest operating system upgrade from Philips. Using RealPlayer to synchronise the files is not a viable solution as RealPlayer is unable to place them in the music folder on the HDD6320. (2) The HDD6320 is temperamental to use: the operating system appears to hang frequently. The work around to this problem is to switch-off the HDD6320 and leaving it for 20 or 30 mins before starting it up again.

25 Dec 2005 Nina, Falmouth

9

Good Points

Massive memory & looks good! Excellent value for money and sounds great hooked up to an amplifier!

Bad Points

You can't search for a track so it's bit of pain having to go through the alphabet manually when you've 10000 tracks on there! Also can be a bit slow in reacting especially when almost full.

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