Review ARCHOS 5 4.8-inch 500GB Internet TFT LCD touchscreen Tablet
ARCHOS 5 4.8-inch 500GB Internet TFT LCD touchscreen Tablet Overview
ARCHOS, award-winning for its constant technology innovation, now introduces its new ARCHOS 5 Internet Tablet. This product combines all the multimedia know-how that ARCHOS is famous for, with the ANDROID operating system. It offers you an uncompromised Internet, Media and TV experience in a customizable interface. In perpetual evolution with the continuous arrival of new applications, you can personalize your ARCHOS 5 Internet Tablet to perfectly reflect your tastes and needs.
ARCHOS 5 4.8-inch 500GB Internet TFT LCD touchscreen Tablet Features
- 500GB capacity for up to 148,000 songs
- 10 hours of audio or 4 hours of video on a single charge
- 4.8-inch TFT LCD touchscreen display with 800 x 480 pixel resolution and 16 million colors
- Supports MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, AAC+, FLAC, and OGG Vorbis audio formats
- Supports MPEG-4, MPEG-4 HD (up to 720p), H.264 HD (up to 720p), WMV, and M-JPEG video formats; JPG, BMP, PNG, and GIF image files
- It gives 10 hours of audio or 4 hours of video on a single charge.
- It has 4.8-inch TFT LCD touchscreen display with 800 x 480 pixel resolution and 16 million colors.
- It has 500GB capacity for up to 148,000 songs.
- It supports MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, AAC+, FLAC, and OGG Vorbis audio formats.
- It supports MPEG-4, MPEG-4 HD (up to 720p), H.264 HD (up to 720p), WMV, and M-JPEG video formats and JPG, BMP, PNG, and GIF image files.
Customer Review
First of all - for everyone criticizing this unit for NOT having the official android market - HEY, this unit is several years old and it was KNOWN from the start it will NOT have the market. Also, this unit is Android 1.6 so don't complain about not having the newest Android OS, it never did have it, it never will.
As far as the apps are concerned - the included app store is pretty darn good now with the numerous firmware updates that have been done on this unit (besides, you can download many other app sites, including Amazon). For the most part, the initial criticism of this unit being buggy and slow can pretty much be laid to rest. Playing Angry Bird on an android tablet is a good way to discern the tablets abilities in handling graphics - I loaded Angry Bird Rio on this and it runs well.
As for being slow - the Flash memory ones - up to 32 gb do not have the problems that the hard drive units have. The dim whirling sound and the lag while the hard drive seeking is going on is totally not an issue with the flash drive units (by the way - people posting here with hard drive units - HEY, you're in the wrong spot!). Most of all, the crashes that seem fairly common with the hard drive units don't happen with the flash memory units.
Archos' units always were great in video playback - this unit is no exception. It handles videos in different formats without any problems (although for certain HD format, you have to plunk down extra for the plug-in). I really like the ability to completely fill the screen by using the zoom function. Please, don't complain about the price of the plug-ins - this units handles far more formats than most competitors with the bonus of having a nice size screen at an attractive price.
Music playback is average, as always is the case with Archos units with a low volume range. The default player that comes with the unit basically sucks - suggest you download a better app.
Wifi works pretty good, haven't experienced any connection problems. Don't complain about navigating around the web pages - HELLO - it IS only a 5" screen - you spend hours on the internet? GET A LARGER SCREEN UNIT!
You can get clean, good working used units now for under $100 if you look. For that price, these units are a DEAL!
As far as the apps are concerned - the included app store is pretty darn good now with the numerous firmware updates that have been done on this unit (besides, you can download many other app sites, including Amazon). For the most part, the initial criticism of this unit being buggy and slow can pretty much be laid to rest. Playing Angry Bird on an android tablet is a good way to discern the tablets abilities in handling graphics - I loaded Angry Bird Rio on this and it runs well.
As for being slow - the Flash memory ones - up to 32 gb do not have the problems that the hard drive units have. The dim whirling sound and the lag while the hard drive seeking is going on is totally not an issue with the flash drive units (by the way - people posting here with hard drive units - HEY, you're in the wrong spot!). Most of all, the crashes that seem fairly common with the hard drive units don't happen with the flash memory units.
Archos' units always were great in video playback - this unit is no exception. It handles videos in different formats without any problems (although for certain HD format, you have to plunk down extra for the plug-in). I really like the ability to completely fill the screen by using the zoom function. Please, don't complain about the price of the plug-ins - this units handles far more formats than most competitors with the bonus of having a nice size screen at an attractive price.
Music playback is average, as always is the case with Archos units with a low volume range. The default player that comes with the unit basically sucks - suggest you download a better app.
Wifi works pretty good, haven't experienced any connection problems. Don't complain about navigating around the web pages - HELLO - it IS only a 5" screen - you spend hours on the internet? GET A LARGER SCREEN UNIT!
You can get clean, good working used units now for under $100 if you look. For that price, these units are a DEAL!
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