--- product_id: 171545972 title: "Philips GoGear MUSE 8GB MP4 Player 3.2 inch Touch Screen Display, Micro SD Card Slot, Video Playback and FM Radio - Silver" brand: "philips" price: "R253" currency: ZAR in_stock: false reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/171545972-philips-gogear-muse-8gb-mp4-player-3-2-inch-touch store_origin: ZA region: South Africa --- # Philips GoGear MUSE 8GB MP4 Player 3.2 inch Touch Screen Display, Micro SD Card Slot, Video Playback and FM Radio - Silver **Brand:** philips **Price:** R253 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Philips GoGear MUSE 8GB MP4 Player 3.2 inch Touch Screen Display, Micro SD Card Slot, Video Playback and FM Radio - Silver by philips - **How much does it cost?** R253 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/171545972-philips-gogear-muse-8gb-mp4-player-3-2-inch-touch) ## Best For - philips enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted philips brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Legal Disclaimer The item in Very Good condition. No scratches on screen . Have New battery. Review: Ghastly I-Pod wannabe, I was actually relieved when it stopped working so I could be rid of it. - This has to rate as one of the worst purchases I have ever made - and I speak as someone who paid real money for a couple of The Fall's late 90s albums. My trusty, reliable and user-friendly little 8Mb basic Philips Go-Gear had served me well for a long time until I unpacked a bag after a trip to discover it had been lost or stolen, so with the model no longer available the obvious choice was a new product from the range, and as I have a large music collection I decided a 16Mb would be most appropriate, so bought this one. Big mistake. On unpacking and switching it on I soon realised it was somewhat less than intuitive, even with both the paper user guide and the PDF manual open. Still, I uploaded a few albums and it seemed to play them. It was at this point I discovered the device does not actually have a shuffle function. Now I'm an old fashioned music fan and when I'm on the train I like to listen to whole albums, but there are times, such as in the gym (which is probably where I use the thing most) when shuffle is better. I want a piece of kit that does both, just as my old GG and even the little unbranded £15 thing I had before it did. But no, it doesn't do that. For that you have to make a playlist, and to make a playlist you have to install the Songbird software. It was round about this point that my dislike of the product plunged into the realms of sheer hatred. Firstly, I don't want to "manage my music collection" in some unnecessary software package. But if needs must, I suppose. Secoondly, I've met some user-unfriendly software packages in my time but this outclasses the lot, even stuff I use at work that's been coded by people whose specialisation is clearly elsewhere and badly translated from Chinese via German. Eventually I find the bit where I can make a playlist, so I start the tedious process of adding tracks to it. 20 minutes later I wish I'd never set eyes on it. It has deleted everything I had already put on the machine and tried to replace it with, er, itself. Only this doesn't work. And if I try and upload by drag-and-drop as I did before but it won't have that either. I'm an electronics engineer and my partner is in software, we're not daft, and we are both utterly confunded. I now have a music player onto which I can not upload music. Never mind, it has a factory reset function - I mean that's two hours of my life I will never get back, but if that's what it takes... The screen goes blank. Good. it's going to restart any second. Except it doesn't. Let it charge for a bit and try again - nothing. Followed by a sense of relief that this ghastly thing is no longer part of my life. I'd read some of the negative reviews on here and thought how bad can it be - the answer is worse than any of them warned me. I've had a number of Philips products over the years, TV, household appliances, all sorts and every one of them until now has been great. But with this it looks like they've got a real turkey on their hands, at least were that not somewhat defamatory towards innocent turkeys. I've now bought a Sansa Clip which uploads, plays and shuffles music, doesn't desperately want to be an i-pod (Dear Philips, if people want i-pods they will buy i-pods) and was about half the price. Unfortunately as I did not buy it here I can't review it here but can seriously recommend it if, like me, your primary focus is on listening to music as opposed to having a trendy flashy looking gadget to show off. Review: Philips GoGear MUSE 16GB (ok but songbird is slow as a wet fart) - after receiving two mp3 players due to the fact that the original one was apparently received by my-self!? acording to courier! the songbird application takes alot of cpu(Central processing unit) and slows every thing down crashing many many times and the player itself resets the time and date if turned off for more than two days, the radio cant get a good signal no matter whether you are up the hills or close to sea level? you cant equalize the the tones of sound on the player and the songbird one has no presets, so might as well leave it as it is. might update this in a few months, but as of now i wouldn't recommend this product to anyone its has too many flaws and the company need to make something a lot more reliable for the future! i hope they take everyone's criticism into mind before putting out a new GoGearMUSE! PEOPLE BUY SOME OTHER MP3/VIDEO PLAYER THIS ONE IS NOT WORTHY OF YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY!! ## Features - FullSound to bring your MP3 music to life - 3.2" full colour touch-screen display for superb video enjoyment - FLAC and APE lossless codec support for precise sound quality - microSD card slot for expanded memory capacity - FM radio with RDS ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B004UACR1Q | | Brand | PHILIPS | | Brand Name | PHILIPS | | Colour | Silver | | Compatible Devices | Personal Computer | | Component Type | Display, Playback Controls | | Connectivity Technology | USB | | Connectivity technology | USB | | Customer Reviews | 2.6 out of 5 stars 12 Reviews | | Global Trade Identification Number | 08712581581053 | | Item Part Number | SA3MUS16S02 | | Item Weight | 104 Grams | | Manufacturer | Philips | | Manufacturer Part Number | SA3MUS16S/02 | | Media Types | MP3 | | Memory Storage Capacity | 16384 MB | | Memory storage capacity | 16384 MB | | Model Name | GoGear MUSE | | Model Number | SA3MUS16S/02 | | Model name | GoGear MUSE | | Number of Items | 1 | | Screen Size | 3.2 Inches | | Screen size | 3.2 Inches | | Supported Standards | APE, FLAC, MP3, MP4 | ## Images ![Philips GoGear MUSE 8GB MP4 Player 3.2 inch Touch Screen Display, Micro SD Card Slot, Video Playback and FM Radio - Silver - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/814SpxUbAcL.jpg) ![Philips GoGear MUSE 8GB MP4 Player 3.2 inch Touch Screen Display, Micro SD Card Slot, Video Playback and FM Radio - Silver - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81EpZX41hnL.jpg) ![Philips GoGear MUSE 8GB MP4 Player 3.2 inch Touch Screen Display, Micro SD Card Slot, Video Playback and FM Radio - Silver - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81NZJhsyRpL.jpg) ![Philips GoGear MUSE 8GB MP4 Player 3.2 inch Touch Screen Display, Micro SD Card Slot, Video Playback and FM Radio - Silver - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81YDCU6Fd2L.jpg) ![Philips GoGear MUSE 8GB MP4 Player 3.2 inch Touch Screen Display, Micro SD Card Slot, Video Playback and FM Radio - Silver - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/518YR90ly6L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐ Ghastly I-Pod wannabe, I was actually relieved when it stopped working so I could be rid of it. *by H***T on 23 August 2013* This has to rate as one of the worst purchases I have ever made - and I speak as someone who paid real money for a couple of The Fall's late 90s albums. My trusty, reliable and user-friendly little 8Mb basic Philips Go-Gear had served me well for a long time until I unpacked a bag after a trip to discover it had been lost or stolen, so with the model no longer available the obvious choice was a new product from the range, and as I have a large music collection I decided a 16Mb would be most appropriate, so bought this one. Big mistake. On unpacking and switching it on I soon realised it was somewhat less than intuitive, even with both the paper user guide and the PDF manual open. Still, I uploaded a few albums and it seemed to play them. It was at this point I discovered the device does not actually have a shuffle function. Now I'm an old fashioned music fan and when I'm on the train I like to listen to whole albums, but there are times, such as in the gym (which is probably where I use the thing most) when shuffle is better. I want a piece of kit that does both, just as my old GG and even the little unbranded £15 thing I had before it did. But no, it doesn't do that. For that you have to make a playlist, and to make a playlist you have to install the Songbird software. It was round about this point that my dislike of the product plunged into the realms of sheer hatred. Firstly, I don't want to "manage my music collection" in some unnecessary software package. But if needs must, I suppose. Secoondly, I've met some user-unfriendly software packages in my time but this outclasses the lot, even stuff I use at work that's been coded by people whose specialisation is clearly elsewhere and badly translated from Chinese via German. Eventually I find the bit where I can make a playlist, so I start the tedious process of adding tracks to it. 20 minutes later I wish I'd never set eyes on it. It has deleted everything I had already put on the machine and tried to replace it with, er, itself. Only this doesn't work. And if I try and upload by drag-and-drop as I did before but it won't have that either. I'm an electronics engineer and my partner is in software, we're not daft, and we are both utterly confunded. I now have a music player onto which I can not upload music. Never mind, it has a factory reset function - I mean that's two hours of my life I will never get back, but if that's what it takes... The screen goes blank. Good. it's going to restart any second. Except it doesn't. Let it charge for a bit and try again - nothing. Followed by a sense of relief that this ghastly thing is no longer part of my life. I'd read some of the negative reviews on here and thought how bad can it be - the answer is worse than any of them warned me. I've had a number of Philips products over the years, TV, household appliances, all sorts and every one of them until now has been great. But with this it looks like they've got a real turkey on their hands, at least were that not somewhat defamatory towards innocent turkeys. I've now bought a Sansa Clip which uploads, plays and shuffles music, doesn't desperately want to be an i-pod (Dear Philips, if people want i-pods they will buy i-pods) and was about half the price. Unfortunately as I did not buy it here I can't review it here but can seriously recommend it if, like me, your primary focus is on listening to music as opposed to having a trendy flashy looking gadget to show off. ### ⭐⭐ Philips GoGear MUSE 16GB (ok but songbird is slow as a wet fart) *by F***K on 8 July 2012* after receiving two mp3 players due to the fact that the original one was apparently received by my-self!? acording to courier! the songbird application takes alot of cpu(Central processing unit) and slows every thing down crashing many many times and the player itself resets the time and date if turned off for more than two days, the radio cant get a good signal no matter whether you are up the hills or close to sea level? you cant equalize the the tones of sound on the player and the songbird one has no presets, so might as well leave it as it is. might update this in a few months, but as of now i wouldn't recommend this product to anyone its has too many flaws and the company need to make something a lot more reliable for the future! i hope they take everyone's criticism into mind before putting out a new GoGearMUSE! PEOPLE BUY SOME OTHER MP3/VIDEO PLAYER THIS ONE IS NOT WORTHY OF YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY!! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good choice if you dont want an apple product. *by T***N on 2 October 2013* Ive been using the GoGear for a few months now and i quite like it. Its not perfect but the drag and drop is a good option and an SD slot is its biggest sell point, 16GB of internal memory is nice but add a 64GB card to the mix and you got some serious music. The only downsides are that the touch screen could be better and the navigation could be a little more thought out and a decent equalizer, but aside from that its a nice piece of kit. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/171545972-philips-gogear-muse-8gb-mp4-player-3-2-inch-touch](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/171545972-philips-gogear-muse-8gb-mp4-player-3-2-inch-touch) --- *Product available on Desertcart South Africa* *Store origin: ZA* *Last updated: 2026-09-13*