Take your movies, TV shows, video, music and pictures with you wherever you go with the 60 GB ARCHOS 5 Internet Media Tablet. Featuring up to 60 GB hard drive, this player lets you stores up to 80 Movies, 600,000 photos or 30,000 songs. I love my Archos 5 and would encourage anyone who's looking for a media player to take a look for themselves. Almost everyone either has an iPod Touch, knows someone who does, or has at least heard about one. Alas, if you are like me and don’t WANT one, but are in the market for a media player then the Archos 5 might be your Apple solution. Now, let me make it clear that the two devices aren’t just clones of each other and while this review is centered on the Archos, it would be most beneficial to compare it to its greatest competitor, the iPod Touch. The design of the Archos 5 is very sleek looking, coated in a bronze gunmetal all the way around. It is held horizontally, and because of its larger size looks like a really slick GPS unit. The Archos 5 stands at 5 x 3.1 x 0.5 inches, making it a bit bulkier than the iTouch and heavier. Though not as pocketable, the size of the Archos allows for a gorgeous 4.8in screen that displays in 800 x 480 resolution. In fact, it is the video playback that dominates its competitors to the greatest degree. The quality and clarity of the video is astounding, and the device can recognize and play almost every file type out there. (For a complete list of compatible video files visit www.archos.com.) The screen is responsive, but the Archos 5 certainly does not flow as smoothly as the iTouch. The screen and the entire device for that matter is very fingerprint prone and requires a cleaning after seemingly every use. Clicking on the “Play” button reveals 6 options. This is where you can play your videos, music, and photos. Also available here are games offered for download. Archos sells their games in packs of 4, costing around $20 per pack. Do not fret however, due to Flash 9 support for the Archos 5, plenty of free games are available. The easiest way to find them is through that magical portal that is google. You’ll find that not all of them work perfectly so it can be a bit of a trial and error procedure when adding games. Another feature under play is the “Flash Apps.” Free bundles of flash applications and games are offered online and range from Family Guy soundboards to ping-pong. Lastly, one of my favorite features in the Archos 5 is the Web Radio. Any time you are connected to the internet via wireless Wifi you instantly have over 10,000 internet radio stations at your disposal. What I was most impressed with is that these are not just junk stations no one listens to. Rather, I was able to find all of the stations I listen to normally in my car, streaming on my web radio. I can still listen to all my favorite radio programs and stations live as if I were back home. Archos is a European product so the device is a bit worldlier. For instance, the web radio not only allows you to filter channels by genre and popularity, but by location as well.Read full review
I used to own an Archos 605 wifi and I loved it. When I saw this slick new model with HD and 5.1 surround sound support I thought I must have it. As an mp3 player it has unsurpassed sound and has tons of functional features. The same goes as a movie player however for most movie formats you have to purchase plugins (they are not that expensive 29Euros for all plugins), however the short fall in the plugins feature is the lack of support for the mkv format which is the most popular HD format on the net! It has a fully functional web browser (its a purchased plugin though read above). However please note that this is not an mp3 player for the average mp3 user. It is something much more so I would only recomend it for gadget lovers. For all gadget lovers this is a must own.
Great User Interface. Fast web browsing. Has flash player 9 so youtube videos play in the browser. Videos look brilliant on the 5" screen. 800 x 480 pictures can be set as the background and look sharp. Holds plenty music but isnt particularly loud through headphones. Can be used as external storage device on PC, Mac and Linux. Windows Media Player 11 synchronises music, films and pictures without a problem. Great little media player. But doesnt quite live up to Ipod Touch standards.
works fine just may lag at times when browsing internet apart from that good product. brought product as a gift the product main features include support for various file types both music and videos. The quality of the screen and the videos it plays are fairly impressive and some phones today cannot even deliver the same quality.
Basically I couldn't afford to buy a new one & I got a very good deal on this one, arriving in vgc. I wanted something I could pop in my bag & have music, video etc at my finger tips...the internet is a bonus. I'm incredibly surprised at how fast it is and how quickly the internet etc loads. The touch screen is very light to use and personally I find it very easy to use. I didn't have to read a manual...it was all very intuitive. It looks great and storage is terrific. Picture quality is SOMETHING else....SUPERB!!!!It is quite heavy, but I expected that. The docking is a little clumsy and took me a while to get used to. I'm proud to own it and think its a beautiful piece of technology.
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