MP3 Players Review

Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (80 GB)

Customer Reviews

Better than an iPod!

You can't beat this Archos 605, 80gb wifi product - it's the best and better than the iPods (or other similar products) that holds movies. It's compact, easy to convert and load movies, and best of all, the resolution is crystal clear. However, I did not give it a five only because there were many additional downloads required to make it operate even better. Preference would have been for company to charge more for the actual Archos player and just include all these needed programs. Hated the extra time and effort in downloading these additional apps. Regarding the case, make sure to get one BUT don't bother with the ones made by Archos - too flimsy. Just go directly for one made by Noreve. Worth every penny. Trust me, I am a big case person and will search high and low to find the perfect one.

Close, but no cigar, save your money

Had problems with this product...and yes, the customer service was ATROCIOUS!!! First one I got, charged all night, booted up the next morning, and was not fully charged...1st call to customer service, was told I needed to charge for 24 hours or could destroy flash memory (WHAT???) second call was told only needed to charge it for 7-8 hours...they told me to send it back with no explanation as to what could be the cause of the battery prob??? Kept it for a week while waiting for my replacement, randomly re-booted for no reason, wiped out my music folder and had to re-sync everytime (20 minute job, battery drainer). Got my new unit, same exact thing with the re-sync, system re-booted, my music library empty, 20-minute re-sync. Called customer service and they had no clue(either lying or oblivious) since it happened to both units during normal operation. Find it very hard to believe no one else had this problem (ZUNE, IPOD SANDISK, whatever would have had an explanation for this) This product would be great if it worked properly and if there were issues, customer service could remedy the problem. Unfortunately they cannot do so; am planning on buying another zune or ipod with less functionality, but better durability and customer service. If you do buy one of these, monitor it for a week and return it asap if you have problems because $300 is alot of bread to drop on something that doesn't work properly.

Great viewing screen but a pain having to purchase all the widgets to get everything to function.

Great viewing but there seems to be a problem with battery life while watching movies. I purchased two of them that had that same problem. Having to purchase all the widgets for the device is a bit of a pain and costly! I compared archos versus zune and zune was cheaper and easier to get movies downloaded to the device. The battery life on zune held up to its specs....

Nice PVP

I bought this PVP as I needed something to watch movies on in the plane where I can't open my laptop (I am 6'7"). The picture is perfect. I downloaded the Opera browers for the extra cash. It is a little annoying that I have to pay for extra, but really the cost of the 605 base model is very good, so I can send a little more on some of the extras. The WIFI is a little slow, and hooking up to a secured network is a little time consuming, but not that big of a deal. All in all, if you are looking for the best PVP on the market, this is your product. My brother has an ITouch, and this is so much better.

Poor battery life and crappy OS kill an otherwise good device

Battery life is an awful 3 hours making it worthless as a video player. OS is buggy. Otherwise its a good device.

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