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Byline: Andrea Vassou

No frills on this budget pocket video player

Portable video players are no longer rare, and Philips has tapped into this market with the SA5285, a simple-looking player with some good features.

The SA5285 holds up to 8GB of music or video, which amounts to around 4,000 songs. Although it looks like its predecessors in terms of the sleek black case, it does have a bigger colour screen at 2.8in.

It also has clever search keys which let us whiz through our music library. However, although the menus were clear, the buttons and interface were sluggish and nowhere near as smooth as some of its…

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