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| Brand: Archos
Category: CE
List Price: $229.99
Buy New: $149.00
You Save: $80.99 (35%)
New (23) Used (3) Refurbished (2) from $109.99
Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 10889
Color: grey
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 4.3
Display Size: 4.3
Removable Memory: MicroSD
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 1 x 3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 500951
Model: 500951
UPC: 690590509511
EAN: 0690590509511
ASIN: B000S5UY1M
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 I Should Have Listened to the Negative Feedback!!! January 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
My son wanted an MP3/Video player that wasn't an iPod, and had a large screen. The Archos 605 seemed like a great choice. My research revealed some positive reviews/feedback, and plenty of negative feedback and horror stories. I wanted to believe the good reviews... but shouldn't have! Within 48 hours of receiving the unit for Christmas, it had frozen. We stepped through the recovery procedures on the screen, but nothing worked. We returned it to Amazon. Amazon handled the return extremely well. Stay away from this product!!!
 I love it December 31, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been using the device for a number of months now and while it does have its issues, it is still an awesome device.
It has become a money pit tho also, since it was only 4gb internal, id reccomend atleast another 4gb or larger sd card. For most people you can stop right there but to unlock all the functionality you need to but other things. Internet access, 30$, Playback of AC3 audio from dvdrips, and H264 files from say itunes, 20$ each, it can work as a dvr, the dvr station dock is 90$, battery life averages about 4.5hours sometimes you need longer so i got a battery pack, 50$, case so the screen is protected, 20$, and thats not everything ive gotten
so it can add up quickly, be careful of this fact, otherwise i do not regret this purchase at all
 Terrific Media Player December 27, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have a video ipod and my wife was wanting the new ipod touch for Christmas. I remembered that there used to be a company that sold mp3 players in the stores but had disappeared. I looked them up to see what they still offered. Low and behold, Archos had this great little video/music player. I immediately scoured the internet to see what else I could find about it. I checked my online computer sources like CNet and they gave it a roaring review.
I went ahead and bought it for Christmas. It works fantastic - the video is phenomenal, the built-in speakers are great, and it's very easy to use. I didn't like that I had to buy a browser plug-in to view webpages online but I knew that going in so it was no surprise. I love that you can use the camera memory cards to keep more music/video/photos on. Eventually, you'll be able to buy 32 Gig cards to use with it. You can't use those on the ipods.
It was easy to set up but easier when you are computer literate. You are supposed to be able to buy the web plug-in using the Archos but I had to go to their website and buy it there instead. No big deal but a little confusing.
Player works great with Windows Media Player. I've never liked itunes anyways. Love all the features and love being able to use a stylis with it. Also, since we have AT&T's DSL service, my wife can use her Archos browser at the local McDonalds wifi for free while the kids play. How cool is that?
As the word gets out, this player will start making a dent in Apple's ipod touch. I'm going to sell my ipod video and get the Archos for myself.
 Make sure you know what you want it for! December 9, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Archos 605 lures you in with it's large, pretty display and relatively low price, then sucker punches you with a horrendous case of buyers' remorse that you're unlikely to encounter often. The price you pay for the base unit is only the tip of the iceberg, you will probably have to spend around that much again to get the functionality you were hoping for. First, no AC adapter is included. Ok, the ipod didn't either, but the ipod doesn't take ten hours to charge for the first time either. After marveling at the pretty touchscreen and menus for the first few minutes, and attempting to use it as a pmp, you may begin to feel that the inconvenience of pulling the thing out of your pocket to change tracks on the touchscreen leaves something to be desired. Ok so 30 bucks or so to buy the remote (I haven't, it disappeared off Amazon and I went back to the iPod). Well, at least you can watch large pretty videos, right? Well, chances are very good that a lot of what you want to watch is disabled in the Archos, so you'll have to go the the Archos website to pay them 20 bucks a pop for every function they built into the thing but are now charging you to use. Now, yes, you could just download every transcoding pack on the internet and spend the next few months recompiling your video library, but it probably won't take much of that before you eventually just head over to Archos and pay them off. And if you got the flash memory version, (which I did because my iPod hard drive failed) SD cards are also available for purchase. I would give the Archos a zero, but it does have such a great display........
 Yes, It does all those things, BUT NONE of them sucessfully November 30, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
What a dull and slow media player! This player is so dull and boring. It's more for the super patience, that loves to spend loads of time navigating thru many steps to get what you want. It's not very fun to use at all. It navigates like a computer even worse because of the horrible slow speed. The only good thing worth mentioning is the screen. It's beautiful. Everything else performed from average to poor. Video playback was good. Mp3 playback was fair and cumbersome to use. Picture function was pretty bad because it was slow at displaying thumbnails.
Anyways here are the pros and cons:
Pros:
+Screen wow (800 X 480), loved viewing picture slideshows on this screen!
+Ability to view flash videos, but only on sites that uses extension .flv and not .swf. this also means can't play flash games or interact with flash enable websites.
+wirelessly stream media from computer, it's works the first time I set it up then stopped...don't know why
+Wifi, but the range is pretty bad and consistencely dropped signal for whatever reason.
Cons:
-slow slow slow everything
-quite large isn't really pocket friendly
-Plays only certain videos, I must buy plugins in order to unlock the player to play other common video formats
-Broswer costs money($30), when its advertised was wifi
-Takes 8-12 hours to charge via usb, Archos said that their optional dock charges a lot quicker(4-5 hours), gonna run you like $35 more.
-Nothing hip about this device, plain boring device that plays a whole bunch of video formats(if you buy the plugins), and plays mp3 and photos.
-No stylus holder, but you can put it in the carrying pouch
-Some photos can't be display. It said that they are too large. I know that can't be the problem because other photos are much larger in size and resolution got displayed.
Overall, this is not a complete valueless device once you factor in the screen, storage, wifi and all the stuff it's capable of playing once you buy the plugins. However, the major problem is that none of those features are implemented and executed successfully. Virtually no feature on the Archos performs like how you would like them to. They are slow, cumbersome, and on occasions the program just crash. The other major flaw is the poorly designed GUI. It does not look very pleasing when you use it and everything seems so cluttered and slow on this device.
I would recommend this device to only the people to doesn't care about how things perform and just want to get the minimum requirements that are capable of playing back various file formats. I would also recommend this for people who do nothing but watches movies on their portable device for the gorgeous screen. If you're looking for a decent well-perform music or photo player, look somewhere else. This was a return for me. I really liked the fact that this thing has wifi, which was one of the reasons I kept it for 2 weeks. Other than that everything about the device seemed to perform worse and worse with usage. I'm waiting for something better in the future and probably from another company b/c Archos obviously has no customer support whatsoever and this player was obviously released prematurely by them.
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