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| Brand: Archos
Category: CE
List Price: $449.99
Buy New: $279.00
You Save: $170.99 (38%)
New (7) Used (6) Refurbished (4) from $200.00
Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 14594
Color: Grey
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Hard Drive Size: 30
Native Resolution: 4.3
Display Size: 4.3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 5 x 1 x 3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 500872
Model: 500872
UPC: 690590508729
EAN: 0690590598720
ASIN: B000HAU972
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 perfect February 12, 2008
gift for my techie husband... perfect media storage/player. I use it to store mp3's, vidoes and pics. The docking station makes it perfect for recording television shows and watching them on the go or at the gym. great sound and picture quality. get it now!
The best of its kind around so far February 5, 2008
Just got the Archos 604 a month ago and it works pretty well. The web browser is poor. The speaker is small and isn't as bad as the other reviewers make it out to be. It's definitely not stereo sound, but I could hear it fine at home. Of course you won't hear it on a noisy plane. Recharging it using the USB cable through your computer takes a long time and a hassle. But it's light to take anywhere and the input keyboard which pops up for easy fingering is pretty nifty. The Archos would blow every other offering out of the water if it would put together more support and software on its devices. It needs to get outside developers working on that or else, the device is nothing more than it is. I just notice Cowon has also come out with a mini video recorder that also offer document file application.
I wish I could use this device to store books, like the Bible so I could use it in place of the physical one.
Also if they somehow installed communication mic and enabled the use of my Yahoo messenger or Skpye on the Archos, I could use it as a webphone and talk very cheaply on it from anywhere in the world. That would be the killer ap for sure. But alas, they are not there yet.
For it's price, it's not bad. So far, it's pure attraction is the ease of recording off the TV, and that itself may not last very long as a competitive edge.
 Good product with inconvenience January 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had Archos 604 wifi for about 2 weeks. I loved it when I first got the product and I was going to give 4.5 stars for this. But as I get to know the device more and more, I find some inconveniences and complaints about the product.
1. On the manual guide, it says to charge for TWO hours for the battery to be charged completely. With two bars of battery, I still had to charge more than FIVE hours to get full battery. Also, the battery dies out so fast. Two bars are lost with 1hr of voice recording;the LCD light isn't even on during recording.
2.On the manual, it says "File names, folder names and music tags can be displayed in various character sets, such as Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, etc.
You can enable these character sets in the Language settings screen"
It specifically says which language and I found no Japanese, no Korean.
They even had the figure of what the screen should look like if you install East Asian font. I called the tech support to get help on installing language and he doesn't even know about the figure shown on manual and he says that they don't even have Korean at all.
For this reason, I have to change all the Korean characters into English before transferring into my device. And even if I do,some file names still appear as ????
3. Very inconvenient in getting tech support. You need to log-in in order to tech support. No on-line requesting or e-mail. If you cannot log-in to the website for some reason, the only way to get tech support is to call.
In conclusion, Archos 604 WiFi would be good product if you use English as language, use it just for music (in that way the battery won't run out so fast.But it's too big for music device) or have USB port with all the time to charge constantly.
There are many features but you can't really enjoy all of them because of battery life. You can get DVR travel kit to charge faster but I don't how it effective it will be. I ordered DVR travel kit but didn't get it yet. So, I will update review about that product in the future.
Awsome January 30, 2008
I really enjoy mine. It is very easy to use and not having to use something like Itunes is really nice. I like the speaker and the case and headphones that come with it are nice. It is a great player all the way around.
Product is good January 28, 2008
Its very good product for music , watching movies.But the issue i face in few days are its PDF is very slow , All movie formats are not working fine ....Head phones are very good quality but speaker phone is not so impressive. Screen is excellient. If u want to take MP3 player and to watch movies , its excellient .I am enjoying my Archos :)
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