Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (30 GB) by Archos
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Digital camera reviews of Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (30 GB)
Digital camera Review: 605 Wifi whybuy?
Summary: 2 Stars
The Archos 605 Wi-fi is not a bad unit but the company sucks!! The unit has no place to put the stylus, you have to pay immediately for another 3 items to make it function. It does not have access to the web until you buy Opera, then it won't play VOB files for movies until you buy the cinema software. You cannot charge it quicker than many hours through a USB, it comes without any wall charger, you have to order a unit for $29.99 to speed up charging. The battery life is quite a bit less than claimed. Finally if you happen to live outside a big city anywhere in US or Canada and have a PO Box as your billing address they will not ship to you, you cannot pay with a VISA in that case, even if you purchased the item with the same VISA. Attempting to discuss these issues with the company is simply frustrating, the minions do not seem interested in your comments.Digital camera Review: A laptop alternative!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
It can play music, video, email, surf the internet, and open PDF files. You can write notes and make simple calculations with widgets. I think I am going to leave my laptop home the next time I travel for pleasure. The only thing I will potentially miss is Excel. Hope there is going to be a widget written for that purpose soon. Highly recommend this great little device. I had previously considered the Ipod Touch. The Archos 605 is bigger but you get so much more.Digital camera Review: A useful toy
Summary: 3 Stars
Have had one for years, it's fun and convenient, great for car and doctors waiting room. Had the battery replaces once that's expensive, not made to just slip a new one in, have to have the wire cut and a new one solder in. You have to pay extra of just about every thing that is useful for software. can't customize much, not open source for better software for playback but hacks and advice are out there. VLC would work better for videos, managing mp3's not use friendly. Good screen size and weight, can dock to TV with remote which is great. Touch screen works well except for big fingers. I would still buy again as I don't know a better choice even though they are too proprietory like HP in the 80's.Digital camera Review: ARCHOS 605 - 30 GB model
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought this product with the dock. By and large, both work as advertised. Read the product description at to what it does - I'll go over the cons.
Biggest problem is this company has absolutely no support. Go to their website and there's no tel# and/or email address.
Big problem - I recorded dvd movies to the device. It'll let you play on the device but not on an external device (e.g. TV).
The user-interface is absolutely w/o "out of the box" thinking. very cumbersome and at times very unintuitive (e.g. copying files)
There's some video editing features - sometimes buggy but works.
Sometimes the mp3 file tags don't transfer over properly. This could be a WMP problem.
Also, bought the browser. works but i wish it played WMP video streams.
The company really needs to provide some sort of a support mechanism - at least a forum.
Happy with the product..but sometimes not so.
Digital camera Review: AWFUL!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I wish I had taken heed of the negative reviews...but being stubborn and stupid might I add, I ignored them all the went ahead and poured my money down the drain buying this piece of electronic junk! It is the MOST temperamental gadget I have EVER had the misfortune of owning or using! It freezes for no apparent reason other than a freeze is overdue since the last one about 15 mins ago!! I have at least heeded the advice about Archos's call center and I have not bothered to call or send it back. Life is too short. A lesson has been learnt though. I will NEVER purchase another Archos piece of junk again. A word of advice to anyone still foolish enough to ignore the negative feedback...make sure you carry a paper clip with you everywhere as part of the accessory kit...you will need it for all the constant resets!!!!