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| Brand: Archos
Category: CE
List Price: $229.99
Buy New: $170.00
You Save: $59.99 (26%)
New (35) Used (2) from $170.00
Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 5792
Color: grey
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 4.3
Display Size: 4.3
Removable Memory: MicroSD
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 1 x 3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 500951
Model: 500951
UPC: 690590509511
EAN: 0690590509511
ASIN: B000S5UY1M
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 great buy April 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i researched this item and couldnt wait to buy it. once i got it it was everything i that i hoped it would be. i love my pictures, videos, and music, so now that i can have all of them with me whenever i want im very happy. plus if im near a wireless hot spot i can surf the net!! what more could any one ask for in a media device? the ony reason why i dont give it five stars is because of all the extra plugins and accessories that come at an extra cost, but even that makes the archos more customizable.
overall ths is a great buy>:}
great !!! February 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The 605 wifi flash with sd slot works great. Only problem can not get it to work with sd card.
 plays media - but....... February 6, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you want a media player this works. But it it very finicky. It does into diagnostic mode 30% of the time and requires a file system repair. When the repair fails and the format is required, it formats the internal and external memory. So the SD gets wiped.
The music player is almost non functional. You cannot sync playlists to it. It will not correctly integrate the music on the SD into the general lists for genre, artist, album, so on. You have to manually create the playlists on the device which is not easy to do. A 3 hours play list for a road trip will take 30 minutes to do even if you know the songs. I have tried to sync the playlists from Yahoo, rhapsody, napster, iTunes, windows media player and iTunes. The unit does not recognize any of them.
The suspend mode uses too much power. From one day to another it uses 1 bar of the battery meter while in suspend mode. It takes over a minute to boot.
It takes 8 hours to charge off the USB cable. It take 4 hours off A/C. The A/C adapter requires spending $99 for the DVR or $30 for this semi-useless dock and the adapter. Do not by the "travel DVR". No A/C. So to have a DVR and the A/C will still cost $99.
The best feature is the $99 DVR unit. You can record off the TV. So you can watch your TV shoes while at the gym. It takes standard RCA in, so where it is legal :-) you can play your favorite dvds and it will record like a VCR. Other than this ONE feature, by the apple itouch or look into the creative devices.
I should have read more reveiws. February 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok i think this review is mainly centered at my particular device, because i think i got a lemon. i really do have some nice things to say further down. First, yes the charging takes the better part of a day, probably something akin to the 12 hours i've seen reported on here. Next the customer service is quite rude. I tried to d/l the web browser from the site, it kept saying there were problems with my billing address/ and or credit card number, I kept trying to fix the issues but to no avail. I contacted Archos and I was rather rudely told that I must have not put in my proper address ( hello i know where i live ) so upon checking and rechecking and looking at credit card statements ect....still no luck. So i called again and got rude customer service person #2 where I was told if i tried over five times "my credit card company won't let the transaction go through" then she looked and rather scornfully told me that I had tried 12 times to get the transaction to work. Then she told me i couldn't use my card for 72 hours on the site. I buy a ton of stuff online and i have never had so many problems making a simple purchase. She then told me to just use another credit card. Great thanks...It never did mean anything to her that the address was correct the entire time. Anyways i finally received the plug in and i also d/l the newest firmware. The device was okay that night. I watched a few videos, for the most part i really liked the device. the menus are rather weird because you have no idea what all the icons do since theres no text and you can't rollover the icon to see what it does, you have to seriously push the button and hope thats what you thought it did. I couldn't even find a legend for all the different icons in the "manual" (I use the term manual loosly because its really just one page of warnings and legal mumbo jumbo)
The next morning the device kept locking up when i tried to stream a video. I reset it, and it locked up again. It locked up a few more times while browsing the web. I was messing around with it before i went to sleep, then I turned it off and set it on the nightstand. This morning it kept booting up then shutting down as soon as the home screen came on. i hooked it up to the usb on my laptop only to discover that the battery completely drained itself even though the unit was shut off. Now thats a handy feature.
On the plus side The screen is gorgeous, and the web service is relatively quick at least in my house anyways. The MP3 controls are a little weird and I wouldn't recommend trying to use this while driving, but the sound is nice It would be a great player to sit around and listen to. I really like the fact that it displays the track before and after the current one playing, very cool. i would say the sound is comparable to my trusty creative ZVM. Once you get the hang of it the web browsing is pretty good but some of the links are really hard to hit making you zoom in to engage them, but thats not really the devices fault. i think its cool when you watch a flash video online the unit instantly blows it up to full screen. the video quality is great so far, even bad transfers are at least watchable. I'm really not sure that the web browser plug in should be an item you have to pay for (i mean it is marketed as being a wi-fi device and all) but it's not that big of a deal i guess. All in all I think its a cool device and a great alternative to the ipod touch just don't expect much support from the customer service dept. I think I may have just gotten a bad player, i'm sure it happens but depending on how the return goes I'm not sure i'll be jumping up to get another archos product in the future.
 Try it BEFORE you write... amazing toy January 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Got this as a christmas present for my daughter (13 yrs)... yes, I realized up front that they nickle and dime you for capabilities... but knowing that up front made it less upsetting, as I mentally added the prices when deciding what to get. I got her the 4 Gig 605, Dock, 4 GB SDHC and the internet plug it... right at $320 for the whole group. So far everything has worked flawlessly... we have played movies on my 50" Sony TV and it looks great... WIFI works throughout the home and the remote allows a 'useable' internet experience on the TV. Watching recorded TV/Movies has made trips in the car fun for her. All-in-all a blast of a 'toy'. Works great with an external drive, so I am confused why anyone would buy the HD versions unless you MUST have access on the road to many movies at once. Otherwise, use a stand-alone HD as your 'home base', and drag movies to the SD card or player as needed. Multiple SD cards allows near limitless viewing on the road, and the knowledge that your hard-drive will never crash on you (since it doesn't have one!). I have an Archos AV500 that has served me faithfully commuting for years... now I REALLY wish it would die so I can upgrade to one of these things! Only negatives (similar to AV500, so I am used to it) are on the MP3 side... pretty lame music-player software. That being said, it works fine for MP3s and I think they have the best VIDEO software/ hardware on the market. This thing is a steal at under $200 for the base unit.
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