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It’s a small size MP3 player, which takes successful qualities from other major manufacturers, like SanDisk, and Creative, and moulds them into one fine entertainer. It does, however, do away with the extra video and the photo features, and instead makes the utility features more intuitive on the operational front and at the same time concentrates on the quality of music playback.

The looks are pretty attractive and size pretty small with just 40mm height and a depth of about 18mm. The shiny silver just adds to the flavour and the square design just goes well with the handling of the player. There is a 3.5mm headphone jack with the power switch just next to it. The Philips SA 2845’s controls are also quite intelligently built specially the playback control which provides you with the facility of skipping a track just by a single press and for going back to the start of a song you can achieve this just by pressing the edges of the system. Further to climb up a level for selection of artists, album or even selecting any particular song, just use the back switch provided at the top of the player.

Further the sound levels can be changed by the button provided on the right side of the player and with the information always available on the screen about the songs, albums etc., the overall the controls turn out to be quite handy. Recording facilities are excellent and the recording microphone is highly sensitive with the capability of reproduction of the recordings even from a distance with tremendous clarity and recordings up to 4GB memory through the WAV Files of the player can further be downloaded through the USB Port to the P.C.

To sum up it is a handy easy to carry player with a good quality playback as compared to other brands in the same price band.