It’s not the 606 and other 6th generation PMP Archos announced to day but a new line of devices - namely, the “5″ and “7″ multimedia Internet tablets. Problem is with these new devices, there’s no need for Archos PMPs. The Archos 5 and 7 are not only WiFi-enabled multimedia players, they have a new UI that is significantly better than the Archos Gen5 UI and capacities range from 60GB to 250GB (350 to 500 euros) for the Archos 5 and 160GB to 320GB (450 to 550euros) for the Archos 7. The 5 and 7 are not only screen-dominated devices, they come with various accessories (DVR station, battery dock, GPS car holder, FM remote) so that you could do just about everything you can think of doing to entertain yourself on the g0 and each Archos 5 and 7 come with WebTV & Radio, something Archos WiFi 5th-Generation owners are already enjoying after they shelled out $20. Very exciting news for Archos fans.
Update: You can slide in a 3G SIM card in these new Archos devices, so there you go WiFi, 3G and if you take a look at the video below, a pretty neat web browser.
[via archoslounge]
Read on for another photo and a video.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
[...] Original post by BrianB [...]
August 20th, 2008 at 2:43 am
[...] info at pmptoday and Archos [...]
August 29th, 2008 at 6:10 am
[...] has a video of the Archos 5. The portable media player boasts a touch-screen UI co-developed with Texas Instruments. It has an [...]
September 5th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
[...] new dependency on the touch screen is very important in the new Archos 5 and 7. Archos PMPs up to the Gen5 utilizes tactile buttons in support of the touchscreen interface. With [...]