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Originally Posted by jswinden
I bought an Archos 5 IT on Thursday and returned it on Friday.
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Did you upgrade to the latest firmware while you had it? And did you do that by re-initializing Android when upgrading the Android 1.6?
Early firmwares, that may still be pre-installed on Archos units sold in stores were buggy. But Archos is releasing new firmwares every couple of weeks and have reached pretty decently stable firmware status for the last couple of months.
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Originally Posted by jswinden
It is not worth the $300 USD price tag.
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It's $249 at Radio Shack
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=3843254
I think just as a media player and web browser experience it is so much better value than anything apple or microsoft does on the market just because of the superior screen size and resolution for price. All the Android features, the alternative OS firmware features (Angstrom and later Maemo, Ubuntu etc), all the MicroSD card expansion, Bluetooth tethering, Bluetooth and USB host keyboard/mouse input, HDMI output through docks, ext4 file format and fat32 formattable, DivX, Mpeg2, H264 High profile all up to 720p playback, Ogg Vorbis and Flac audio codecs, all this I think makes it absolutely a great value.
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Originally Posted by jswinden
Put a decent OS on it and it will be a great device.
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Android is the worlds best OS and the one with the most promise. Sure though a few features are still under construction and under optimization in Android, things such as multi-tasking, e-reading, VOIP, 3D acceleration, all those things are still being worked on by Google and others in the open handset alliance. Though Google releases new versions of Android every 3 months, I am sure they are going to have everything working perfectly pretty soon.