Philips MP3 Players

Philips GoGear Muse

The GoGear Muse is Philips' best portable media player to date, featuring a number of enhancements over previous models, including a redesigned user interface and slicker design. It doesn't offer the best audio quality we've ever heard, but its format support is hard to beat

User rating 8.0

Editor's rating 6.8

Philips Streamium NP2500

The Streamium NP2500 is a worthwhile digital audio streamer. It's a slick-looking piece of kit, offers access to thousands of Internet radio stations and, unusually, also offers a colour LCD screen that can display album art, although we wish it were slightly larger

Editor's rating 7.0

Philips GoGear Vibe

The GoGear Vibe budget MP3 player compensates for its deeply irritating navigation system by offering a well-rounded feature set and good sound quality. Photo- and video-playback capability are of limited use on a 38mm colour screen, but Philips deserves credit for squeezing in such features at this price

Editor's rating 6.0

Philips GoGear Opus

The GoGear Opus manages to stand out from the crowd of iPod nano rivals by offering some impressive extra features, such as support for the BBC's iPlayer and the ability to record FM radio. The screen isn't great, but sound quality is good and it's a decent media player overall

User rating 10.0

Editor's rating 7.0

Philips Streamium NP2900

The Streamium NP2900 is an excellent Wi-Fi radio. It's an extremely slick-looking piece of kit, it offers access to thousands of Internet radio stations and, most importantly, it delivers fantastic sound quality. Unusually, it also offers a great colour screen that can display album art

Editor's rating 8.0

Philips GoGear Spark

The tiny, wearable GoGear Spark offers a good feature set and decent sound quality for the price. One of the first MP3 players in its class to offer a colour display, the Spark's unique design and excellent battery life help to make it a real rival to the iPod shuffle

Editor's rating 7.0

Philips MCI-500H

If the idea of having your entire CD collection stored inside a hi-fi, being able to beam it all over your house and being able to stream music from your PC wirelessly sounds appealing, the Philips MCI-500H is the right music system for you. Simply, this central music hub is the latest and greatest Streamium system from Philips

User rating 5.0

Editor's rating 7.6

Philips SA2820

The Philips SA2820 is a strong competitor against the Apple iPod shuffle. With a crisp monochrome screen, voice recorder and 2GB capacity available for a low price, it's certainly attractive. The sound quality emphasises the bass line, making it great for fans of dance music

User rating 9.0

Editor's rating 6.0

Philips Streamium WACS7500

If you're in the market for a straightforward system that streams your PC's music around your home, the Philips Streamium WACS7500 is certainly worth a closer look. It's comprised of a central jukebox with speakers and a hard drive, and a smaller speaker unit for another room

Editor's rating 7.2

Philips WAC3500D

If you still want a piece of the wireless streaming audio action despite your modest budget, the Philips WAC3500D may be right up your alley. With its modern looks, 80GB hard drive and ease of use, you'll be ripping your entire CD collection or playing MP3s in no time

Editor's rating 7.0

Philips MCD908

The Philips MCD908 is an affordable choice for a home cinema setup. It has an upscaling DVD player, will pipe movies over HDMI and blow your ear drums with volume, all while looking lovely in your living room. For such an attractive system and price, is it too good to be true?

Editor's rating 7.1

Philips DCM230

The Philips DCM230 is an undeniably stylish CD player, FM/AM radio and iPod docking station. It's very solidly built, and with its Dynamic Bass Boost option enabled it packs a hell of a punch. Intuitively integrated with all iPods, it just about justifies a pretty steep price tag

Editor's rating 6.3

Philips SA9345

If you want a simple and good-sounding audio player, don't overlook this Philips SA9345. It incorporates an FM radio besides protected and unprotected MP3 and WMA play. Get your finger on its Superscroll function to simply fly through your music. How could you brush off a feature like that?

Editor's rating 6.8

Philips Streamium WAK3300

The Philips Streamium WAK3300 is a standalone networked music-streaming system that doubles up as a bedside radio and alarm clock. Whether paired with a PC or its big brother, the WACS7000, it's an easy-to-use option for bedroom tunes

User rating 1.0

Editor's rating 6.7

Philips Streamium WACS7000

A Wi-Fi jukebox and speaker setup with an 80GB hard drive, Philips WACS7000 is worth considering if you want to wirelessly stream tunes around your house but don't want to include a PC in your music system

User rating 8.0

Editor's rating 6.9

Philips GoGear SA6025

This flash MP3 and video player promises a generous feature set -- including FM radio and voice recorder -- and certainly beats the iPod nano in terms of affordability. But can it match Apple's stylishness and ease of use?

Editor's rating 5.9

Philips GoGear SA4020

The 2GB Philips GoGear SA4020 doesn't deliver the most enviable list of features for a flash-based MP3 player in its price category, but it does boast a solid, well-designed build that's easy on the eyes and pleasant to hold

Editor's rating 5.0

Philips WACS700

The bold, pin-striped fascia, the glossy black plastic and the silver control panel of the WACS700 would all look perfectly at home on the shelves of a Thatcher-era City trader, but digital music lovers will love the system's ability to rip songs straight from a CD and store them on its internal 40GB hard disk

Editor's rating 5.6

Philips GoGear HDD6320 Jukebox (30GB)

Music lovers who want the iPod's style but would rather use a subscription service should give some consideration to Philips' GoGear HDD6320 Jukebox, a sexy black portable that offers 30GB of storage, photo viewing on a bright, clear screen and even a few tricks that the iPod hasn't learned

User rating 5.7

Editor's rating 7.3

Philips GoGear Jukebox HDD1620 (6GB)

The HDD1620 makes a fantastic impression, with a glossy-black casing, a vivid, 38mm colour screen and a blue-backlit, touch-sensitive navigation pad. Looks aside, the GoGear HDD1620 packages nearly every desirable attribute at a very palatable price

User rating 7.1

Editor's rating 7.0