Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (80 GB) by Archos
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Digital camera reviews of Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (80 GB)
Digital camera Review: Dont' buy it. It is a piece of Junk
Summary: 1 Stars
I have wasted my money buy this piece of junk. I have it repaired within 6 months. Battery won't charged. Hard Drive Frozen, erratic screen dispay, poor FLV support, etc. i am extremely disappointed and dissatisfied with this product and the company as a whole. Don't buy it. You will be sorry it you do.Digital camera Review: Everything in One
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an amazing Portable media player. Once you get the firmware update (which if you don't get it seems like a paperweight) then you have many options at your hand. This PMP gets pricy after plug-in and other optional add-ons that seem like they should have come with it. I bought the Mini-Dock shortly after I bought the 605 because if you use it while charging USB it will die and it doesn't come with an AC charger. The Wifi is really simple to setup and use with the on screen QWERTY keyboard. After the plug-ins and external devices you can get, this is an amazing media player but to unlock it's potential, you'll need to fork up a pretty penny.Digital camera Review: Excellent
Summary: 4 Stars
great product...have it running 24hours a day 7 days a week and no problems at all.Digital camera Review: Excellent Product - Not a Great Sync Partner
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased the 80GB 605 WiFi a little over a month ago because I absolutely can not stand iTunes. My music library is shared from a central server at my house, and iTunes can not handle a network localized music library very well. So I was looking for a media player that could play movies and handle my entire library.
The screen resolution of the 605 is nothing short of amazing. The picture is ultra crisp and it plays xVid and Divx compressed movies flawlessly.
The 605 is very simple and straight forward in it's ability to handle music also. The playlist creation leaves a bit to be desired, which is where I run into the only problem I have found with the 605 so far. The 605 doesn't sync playlists with Windows Media Player running on Vista Home Premium. It attepmts to create your playlists on the PMP, but they do not work. There is also an issue when music is synced with WMP, initially, the release year of many media files changes to 1969. This normally wouldn't be a problem, I could care less what the release year of a song is that's stored on my PMP, but the next time you sync, it changes any songs you played on your PMP to release year 1969 in your library. This can be fixed with a repair tool on the 605. When you run the repair tool, although the release year tags get repaired, it erases your ratings of all music files. I have read extensively regarding this issue, and I believe it is an issue with the 605 firmware that I hope Archos can resolve soon. Others have mentioned that this doesn't occur with other media players, but I have tried Media Monkey and it does the same thing, so I'm not convinced it's a WMP problem.
The 605 is very intuitive with it's handling of pictures. Resolution and color is excellent and the touch screen scrolling feature is not only very easy to use, but is also a great wow factor when showing the 605 to friends.
Speaking of the touch screen, it so far has worked flawlessly for me. I have pretty fat fingers, and I have no problem selecting anything on the screen. Even though you know your finger is touching buttons other than what you are selecting, it selects the button that has the majority of your finger pressure.
I know there have been mixed reviews of the purchased plugin model, but personally for me it made perfect sense. I have purchased the Web Browser plugin and the additional video codec plugin. The two of those combined are $50 in addition to what I paid for the 605, and I still consider it to be one of the best technology buys I have made in the last 10 years.
The 605 browses the web decent. It is a little slow, but there are very few web sites out there the Opera browser can not load properly. With the 605's screen resolution, it displays web pages very nicely, and if you need to zoom in to a certain portion of a web page, you simply double tap the screen to zoom and double tap again for the original zoom level.
All in all, the 605 is an excellent product for someone who wants to listen to music and view movies on the go, but wants their PMP to fit in their shirt pocket. The WiFi and web capabilities are just an added bonus in my opinion.
Digital camera Review: Excellent for the most part
Summary: 4 Stars
Pros:
-Picture Quality
-All the add ons
-Price to storage ratio
-Stand (Believe me, this is great when using video)
Cons:
-Battery Life (not quite close to what is advertised; I have gotten 5 hours of mixed usage: Video and Audio when I should be getting 5 hours of Video)
-Weight
-The included Cover
-Proprietary Cable (no mini-USB)
I think this is a fairly honest review, and do feel that despite the magnificent player this is (I have the 80gb one), the cons make me give this 4 stars. I think that if the cons are covered, this player (which I already think sets the benchmark for PMPs) would be as close to perfect as possible. One warning, as you might have discovered, this is a modular design in that the price you see is not the price you should expect for every one of those functionalities to work (the TV station, Codecs for movies, certain MP3s, and wifi Internet will cost *extra*).