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Philips SA238/17 256 MB Digital Audio Player | 
 enlarge | Brand: Philips
Category: CE
List Price: $149.99
Buy Refurbished: $79.99
You Save: $70.00 (47%)
Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 60080
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 8.4 x 2.5
MPN: SA238/17
Model: SA238/17
UPC: 037849948323
EAN: 0037849948323
ASIN: B0001Q4BDK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Factory sealed with manufacturer's warranty, superb sound in style, a must buy!!!
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| Features:
| • | 256 MB digital music player with MP3 and WMA compatibility | | • | 128 MB of built-in memory and 128 MB Secure Digital memory card | | • | Stores up to 8 hours of high-quality music | | • | Digital FM tuner with 10 presets; digital voice recording | | • | Expandable memory slot; shockproof housing |
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Product Description
Music in full motion with the new Rush SA238 Digital Audio Player of Philips
Philips Rush SA238 combines MP3 in full motion with a compact design and versatile wearability.
It's as small as a credit card and weighs 50 grams enabling two hours of 100% shockproof MP3 music playback on the go. In addition, it uniquely combines up to 16 hours of voice recording with a digital FM tuner with 10 presets.
The Rush SA238 is a 128MB digital music player and is supplied with a 128MB SD OR MMC memory card to expand your music enjoyment. The SA238 can use memory cards of up to 256MB storage capacity.
Choose your sound and sequence:
The Rush SA238 has been designed to make listening to digital music files and voice recording very easy. The neckstrap and armband give the users the freedom to wear the products as they like.
The players unique program list makes it simple to create a playlist of favourite tracks and list them in order of preference. Navigation through its library is equally easy, with the player's `jog' selector controlling track access and all play modes. An automatic power-off function helps preserve battery life when the player is not in use.
The Philips Rush SA238 offers a wide selection of digital sound settings to equalise audio playback to suit music style and personal preference. The EQ function gives users a choice of two bass settings for deep, rich sounds, and a choice of seven frequency settings - Rock, Pop, Jazz, Classic, Custom, Bass1 and Bass2- to equalise output according to taste.
For easy navigation even in the dark, the multi-line graphical LCD display features a unique function-specific color backlight, orange for digital audio, green for FM radio, and red for voice. The Rush SA238 offers up to ten hours of playback from AA battery. (* battery life varies with use). Philips 256MB Digital Audio Player , Model Phillips SA238/00
Amazon.com Product Description
Join the digital music revolution with this Philips portable audio player, which plays both MP3 and WMA files. The device combines 128 MB of built-in memory with a 128 MB Secure Digital card, adding up to approximately eight hours of high-quality music. Listeners can also record their voices via the digital voice recorder, or listen to the radio through the digital FM tuner, which includes 10 presets for quick station scanning. Additional features include a shockproof housing that protects the device from jarring drops and an automatic power off function that preserves the battery. And as with any good MP3 player, the SA238/17 is expandable, letting users store additional songs by adding a larger memory card.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
Easy to use but some serious flaws November 12, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is my 2nd Mp3 player. My first is a San Disk Mp3 Companion which worked fine but has some of the same problems as this one. First this unit does sound good and the addition of the FM tuner and the Voice recorder is a nice touch. If you buy this for Mp3 listening, you need to realize there are limitations. My biggest problem is getting a playlist to work or even get an album to play in proper order. Here is an example of the order I have saved in Windows:
Black Sabbath - 01 - Turn Up the Night
Black Sabbath - 02 - VooDoo
Black Sabbath - 03 - Sign of the Southern Cross
Black Sabbath - 04 - E5150
Black Sabbath - 05 - The Mob Rules
Black Sabbath - 06 - Country Girl
Black Sabbath - 07 - Falling of the Edge of the World
Black Sabbath - 08 - Slipping Away
Black Sabbath - 09 - Over and Over
After syncing with the Philips Rush here is the order it plays:
6- Country Girl
5- The Mob Rules
9- Over and Over
7- Falling of the Edge of the World
1- Turn Up the Night
2- VooDoo
3- Sign of the Southern Cross
4- E5150
8- Slipping Away
The limitations are frustrating and Philips customer service is a joke. I talked to 5 different people last weekend all giving me dead end solutions. Some reps were giving info that was contradicting other reps. One said this unit doesn't support playlists, yet the product manual decribes a step by step process (that doesn't work at all by the way)to create a playlist under Music Match software. The most laughable was a rep said keep checking on their website for firmware upgrades, since they are always coming out with new updates. Last upgrade was August 2004!!! Over a year ago!!! Looks like they aborted this baby...
 Extremely inconvenient & horrible!!! October 25, 2005
I had no problem getting songs on this player. Just used drag & drop in Windows Explorer. I never even installed the software they included. It even shows the extra memory as a separate drive, so it was no problem to divide the music up.
My problems with this...
#1 In Mp3 mode, it eats up the battery fast. I go through a battery in one day. Gets expensive fast.
#2 The battery will show 2/3 charge left, but the player will just stop. It won't restart without a new battery.
#3 The main button to go forward, back, change radio stations etc is extremely unresponsive. You have to hit the button 2 or more times to get it to do what you want. Try doing this on a treadmill!
I wasted over $100 on this and am now looking at other, better MP3 players. Don't waste your money.
 Surprising performance April 24, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This unit has surprisingly good features for the discounted price that I paid (sub-$100). Decent audio, light weight, acceptable supplied earbuds, and handy neckstrap + armband made a good package. Pluses are that it can be used to hold data files as well as mp3 as a mass storage device. Also, the FM tuner is pretty good.
128 MB SD card limitation DOES NOT apply on my unit, however it is not explained how to make it function with larger cards. Simply hold the center button down until the unit powers up! For the supplied 128MB card it only takes a couple of seconds, but, for a 1GB card, it takes up to 8 seconds or so, but it will work if you are patient. My guess is that the player has to build a database of files on the card before powering up completely, and the processor is a little slow. 1.128 GB of storage gives a lot of files to listen to during the day.
Cons are that the batteries do not last more than about 10 hours if it includes time consumed by much moving of data to/from the unit with the USB transfer. Also, the latch that keeps the back cover on does not seem to hold too tightly, but I have not had a problem with it, yet.
 Durable, uncomplicated February 22, 2005
Good, durable MP3 player. Center button is easy to use, makes things very simple to move through. Nice display as well. Great for those workouts.
I do not like this one at all February 17, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had this music player before, and I have to admit, it's pathetic. The "256MB" it supposedly has on the player is only 128MB. The reason I do not like it is because it had erased all of my music when I didn't even do anything to it.
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