Buy.Com is offering a sweet deal on refurbished 30GB Archos 404’s - $109.99 with free shipping! The Archos 404 has a 3.5″ 320 x 240 display, video support for MPEG-4 and WMV, audio support for MP3, WMA, and WAV, and support for AAC, AC3, and H.254. Battery life lasts 12 hours for audio [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 8, 2008
Archos 405 is one flash player that just went hard - hard disk, that is. The low-capacity Archos PMP just got a memory boost with a 30GB HD inserted inside it. The 405 has also changed with the upgrade. It now has a plasticky 3.5-inch TFT screen (16m colors), a mic and external speaker. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 26, 2007
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6mFIaSw6Yw[/youtube] Here’s a comparison video of the the Archos 605 WiFi and it’s WiFi-less little brother the 405 from GMP3. We keep coming back to Archos’ Gen-5 PMPs for one very good reason: Archos produces very functional PMPs with a lot of file support for both music and videos, very good screen and connectivity features, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 13, 2007
Generation 5 Archos PMPs have finally been made available to the rest of the world. They have been slapped with official prices so we know what to expect n our next credit card bill. To enumerate. 1. Archos 105: 2GB for $89 2. Archos 405: 2GB for $149 3. Archos 605 WiFi: 4GB for $199, 30GB for $299, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 12, 2007
New firmwares for the new Archos 605 and Archos 405 are now available on the Archos web site both coded 1.3.03. There’s some interesting improvements coming with the upgrades. On the 605, this includes zoom/unzoom when you double-tap on the touch screen, support for MMS streaming content (wow!) and a couple of audio and web [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The little brother of the Archos 605 will accompany it in the market on August 16.Not only that, this Archos will be available in lavender. The 405 has 3.5-inch 320 x 240-pixel touchscreen with MPEG, WMV, SRT/SMI, MP3, WMA, WMA DRM, WAV (PCM/ADPCM), JPEG, BMP, png, pdf and plug-ins for Cinema and Podcast. In other [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 27, 2007
The second PMP to have come out of Archos’s 5th generation line is already available online, apparently without Archos’ official confirmation of its availability. The 405 is a mini-PMP with a 3.5-inch QVGA (320 x 240-pixel) screen and measuring 99.6 X 78 X 13.2mm and weighing 146g. It uses SD, SDHC, miniSD and microSD for [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 15, 2007
Archos officially came oput yesterday with its Gen5 portable media players 105 (mini-PMP) 405, 605, 705 with a new addition, TV Plus. It almost felt like MacWorld 2007 to the bloggers who managed to attend. In our post, we’ve included a composite of several popular blogs and a awesome video preview of the 605, the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 9, 2007
A month ago, our friends at Generation MP3 reported about Archos’ plans for fifth-generation players. This time Generation MP3 got some specs for us, courtesy of JBMM forum posters. Archos will first releast 5th-genration players of the 105, 405, 505, 605 line. It looks like most of these players will be flash-based and will be [...]
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