Philips Raga, Spark and LUXE MP3 Players
Philips has finally announced its highly awaited audio players, the Raga, Spark and Luxe for the GoGear lineup. The three MP3 players had been waiting really long to get formal names and we think the official announcement from Philips makes the introduction even more exciting.
The Raga flash player comes with a choice of 2GB or 4GB of flash storage, the player has a Philips multi-line display and has a battery life of 27 hours. The price is $35 and $45. The Spark turns things up a notch by offering a 1.5-inch OLED color screen and clix-style navigation. The price is $50 or $60.
Speaking of the three players, the Raga comes with a tiny multi-line display and is a completely nondescript flash player. With 2GB or 4GB of flash storage, the battery of the player claims to last around hours. The Raga sells for around $35 or $45.
The other one of interest is the GoGear LUXE player. It has the transparent color LCD-style that we saw a couple of years ago from a Sony music player that shall remain nameless. This one, though, is refined and sparkly
It also comes with FullSound, which means that a music output is refined by "performing 10 million operations per second to analyze and re-compute the music signal." The key feature, though, is the ability to sync it with any phone to make a switch to incoming calls (it has a clip-on Bluetooth mic), Gogear_philipswithout losing your place in a beat or without removing your headphones.
The LUXE will be available at 2GB and 4GB, at $90 and $100, respectively, when it's released in January.
SPARK MP3 and WMA playback
Philips GoGear Spark digital audio video player makes it hip to be square. Album art makes the player glow while your songs are empowered by Philips patented FullSound technology. Show off your player with your photos as the screensaver.
Equalizer allows you to select preset modes that optimize certain frequency bands to enhance specific music styles. Players with Equalizer, utilize graphic equalizing technology to automatically set the optimum sound frequency balance for a chosen music style. The Equalizer allows you to enjoy the optimum sound depending on the music style.
What is music without heart and soul? Philips’ innovative FullSound technology faithfully restores sonic details to compressed music, dramatically enriching and enhancing it, so you experience truly immersive music – without any distortion.
Features
- Voice recording to take notes or record anything, anytime
- Sing, dictate, record notes directly to WAV via the built-in microphone
- Fast downloads from your PC via USB 2.0*
- music with digital FM radio
- Drag and drop your songs easily - no software needed Plug and play data storage
- SuperScroll Navigation finds songs in a simple, fast way
For fast and precise navigation to your favorite song. Navigate through hundreds of songs easily and smoothly - or one at a time - in just a few seconds. You can choose to move through your playlist one song at a time or just press and hold down a little longer to SuperScroll swiftly to your desired track.
- Small and wearable for ultimate portability.
Re: Philips Raga, Spark and LUXE MP3 Players
Both the LUXE and Spark offers Rhapsody integration as well as Philips “FullSound” EQ technology. The player can clip to your clothes, so you can access the controls easier, it can also sync itself to your cell phone.
