Unlike the 101 which I though was complete crap, I kind of like my 70 (250 Gb).

It's not at the iPad level, but the screen is much better than on the 101 (better colors, better angles and it's actually usable as a touchscreen). Also the (smaller) resolution of the screen seems to be more adapted to ...

I actually returned mine today (the 8 Gb model) after testing it for about a week.

With the latest firmware and market installed, I wanted a sidekick device to playback videos, look at my mail and surf the web around my house.

Pros
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- Price
- Construction quality - it ...

A 101, but with real power and a real screen this time.

3G would be nice too.

I don't care if the price ends up being 2x more.

I actually returned mine today (the 8 Gb model) after testing it for about a week.

With the latest firmware and market installed, I wanted a sidekick device to playback videos, look at my mail and surf the web around my house.

Pros
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- Price
- Construction quality - it ...

After owning several Archos devices, I promised myself never to buy one again for various reasons (shoddy support, flaky hardware, broken promises made by their marketing department). I needed something cheap that could play almost anything (nothing complex like say MKVs) without much fuss, and that ...

Just got a N95 8 Gb with Joikuspot and an unlimited data plan to have a portable 3G/WI-FI router and a backup solution to my main Internet access, why am I not surprised that my Archos 5 is the only device I got that doesn't support ad hoc networks.

I'm actually using a pair of Westone 3 and couldn't be happier.

Unlike the Shure's, it's a real 3-way system and built like a tank - important considering the price. Their special "forming" eartips really helps to make them conformable and isolating, this is important to me because I didn't ...

I use mine most of the time on "Low" and indeed the flickering is annoying.

My plan to improve volume is to just use a portable headphone amp. Im experimenting with a cheap one now, the Fiio e3 amp. Its the size of 2 AA batteries and outputs 70mW on 32 ohm earphones, which greatly improves the <10 mW archos 5 output. I'm using the somewhat famous FiiO E3, it works fine ...

first of all the shures are for a cell phone or iphone

excuse me? :shock: There are literally thousands of shure users over at head-fi that would just love to discuss that one with you! Do your homework and actually listen to a set... You have to see at what price point/range, my $0.02 but I ...

The Archos is absolutely terrible at multi tasking, basically it can't!

I wouldnd call the ability to play music in the background whilst doing something else earth shattering. It should be able to do full multi tasking like have the browser open and be able to switch between settings and other ...

To watch videos on a bigger screen and with less hassle than on my iPhone, and also to use (through the HDMI of the station) with my HD TV for playback. For video playback it's clearly the best pocket device I have seen, much better than the iPhone/iTouch.

The rest is nice, but music on the iPhone ...

Mine has "hiccups" sometimes when listening to music and surfing content heavy sites at the same, probably a sporadic memory, HD and/or CPU overloading issue.

The 1.0.87 helped, but it's still not perfect on that point.

Yet another schoolbook example as to why you shouldn't post in Internet forums, when you are either drunk and/or have a two-digit IQ.

Anybody with the Archo5 considering moving up to the Archos7

No because it doesn't offer a higher resolution than the 5.

It reads like a commercial brochure - e.g. no facts checking nor mentions of the limitations you can easily experienced when using the unit; it's not balanced at all and doesn't provide any value besides what people can get from Archos own web pages.

Furthermore after reading the text of this ...

USB transfers are indeed significantly faster now.

AndrewGarn
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:41 am

Re: Protective case ??
Thats just a slip case though, not a full one,which you can use the archos without taking it out of the case

That piece of junk should have been included in the box with the 5.

The fact that they sold these IMTs without cases ...

Not a customer of this site myself, but it's another one where you need to "scroll around and zoom in/out all the time" just like the iPod Touch to use it. Perhaps Archos marketing team should adjust its RDF a bit, when comparing itself to the other guys.

diabloNL wrote:I did try some and it really doesn't work very well or even at all. I think they shouldn't advertise it like that.

You are new to Archos aren't you? Always take what their marketing department claim with huge amounts of salt.