Thursday 10 September 2009

A Poduct I Should'nt Of Purchased

During the course of the past year I purchased a 2GB MP3 player designed and sold by the Dutch electronic company Phillips. The product retailed for £49 and featured MP3 playback, the ability to play videos, photo viewer and a FM radio.
The product is small and fits easily into a pocket and it easy to hold in the hand of the owner. For the price it seemed very reasonable but the problems quickly arose no sooner than after I had uploaded songs from my computer’s Itunes straight into the players hard drive.
The fact that it does not update the files straight away can be very frustrating. This is a huge flaw in the products software especially if the consumer is in a hurry and the useless black square hasn’t realised new music has been uploaded.
This is by far not the half of it. In the advert by the company its self, it stated that the product will feature a portable DAB radio which is what sold the product for me as from what I have seen on the market portable DAB radios are a lot more expensive than £49. The fact that when I called to complain, Phillips still ignorantly insisted that their product did have a digital radio and was the best one on the market was incredible frustrating and annoying.
The mp3 player’s software is slow and finding songs is a long and tedious process. It often freezes and locks up meaning I would then have to perform a master reset, loosing all my music and settings.
To this day I still regret purchasing the product and have only used it on occasion when my Ipod is out of battery which rarely happens.
I recommend this product to absolutely no one and would urge Phillips to remove it from the market.