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hey I'm Donnell Bell this is a first look for the Philips go gear connect 3 this is an Android 2.3 based portable media player priced at $179 it's not a lot to it for better or for worse mostly I kind of feel for worse you're getting a 3.2 inch screen so it's kind of a cramped screen you're not getting a camera of GPS we're seeing a lot of competing products in this space trying to compete against the Apple iPod touch Samsung has a few out the galaxy players sony has one out but this is really the first one to try to beat the iPod touch on price at $179 but for the cheaper price you're also getting a cheaper experience my main gripe here is that the screen quality is really pretty bad it's a really pretty horrible viewing angle here that practically blinks at you it turns turns black so if you're trying to think about this as a video player you're not going to have a great video experience the screen brightness is also pretty dim the screen resolution is not that great also with something that the Kindle Fire out there for $199 just $20 more if you're looking for a great Android experience with a great high quality screen that's a much better product to go for I did like the default music player for this this is using the songbird application there's a pretty interesting job bringing in Flickr photo galleries for whatever artist you're playing there's a some interesting sound enhancement features here from Philips there's also a Facebook integration so that you could post whatever you're currently playing song is to your Facebook page there's a last.fm squabbling of your currently playing track so a lot of well-thought-out features here for the music player some other pretty good music based apps that are built into this for MOG and Rhapsody but you could really get those apps on any kind of Android device you want so that's not really it's gonna sell this thing over other devices but you should just know that the money you're saving on this device really does make itself known when you pick it up and you see the screen quality another gripe here is that there is no memory expansion so you're stuck with either that 8 gigabyte or 16 gigabyte capacity so that's the Philips go gear connect three Transcom and all you