What's the average of 1100 and 1300? Yep, it's 1200. Philips figured as much, so after the introduction of their rather generic SA1100 and SA1300 DAPs they've now come up with the SA1200. Which, again, isn't too groundbreaking or breathtaking.

The SA1200 runs on an AAA battery, but only for 8 hours continuously (according to Philips, that's "an entire day"). It comes with a small, 32 x 128 pixels LCD and a built-in microphone (records into ADPCM WAV), plays MP3/WMA/WAV files, weighs 30 grams (dimensions currently unknown) and will be available in two flavors: 512MB and 1GB.

Specs say that it also acts as an UMS device. Not sure if that bottom part houses a USB pendrive, which would come in handy. The overall design job looks okay, but we're used to that from Philips.

This thing would have to be aimed at the low-end segment of the market again, we figure. Should be cheap enough in the long run. Still, we'd rather see the SA9x00 pop up anytime soon. We'll just glue two together and pretend it's 4GB, then.

LINK (German)