Archos 5 (60GB)

The Archos 5 is a beautiful touch-screen media player offered in several high-capacity models (60GB, 120GB, and 250GB). Archos made a splash with 2007's 605 WiFi, an Editors' Choice winner and one of the first portable media players to offer a full Web browser along with a host of video and music playback features. The features we loved in the 605 WiFi are still here in the Archos 5, but there are some notable drawbacks that prevent the product from realizing its potential.

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[girlsdrinkfeck]

iphone is fucking gay peice of retarded shit

[Charles2337]

This thing murders the itouch.

[NLDutchyjayjay]

@amindumaru

I Have,

I've got the 160 gigs version. Touch screen doesn't reply at all! (even the calibration can't be completed). Contacted Archos 5 months ago. 'till now i've called them 23 times and send over 8 e-mails. Havn't received a reply on any of the mails, and also the Archos supervisor isn't replying me.

I've send it to the repair station 2 times, and they failed to see any faults! :O (i wonder how they managed that).

[MagicRain505]

You're thinking of waaaaay back with the 4th generation Archos. Archos Technologies has long since discontinued support for the device, yet it continues support for the 5th generation 605 wifi and 705 models, which will probably be for a limited time, again, with the release of the Android-based 6th generation Archos 5. Either way, your best bet is with this better, newer, linux-based OS, although I'd go for Droid, no doubt, if you have the cash for it, of course.

[longluvedrappers]

no the new archos is alot faster

[lroberts91]

This looks really nice besides the ultra gloss. A few questions, i had my first archos which was a 404 a while ago, the flaw with that was that it was slow, and sometimes (which got progressively worse) during a song it would crash and reboot.

So i moved onto the 604 which had the exact same flaw and its getting worse. Also when i click songs, because i have alot its slow even loading the folders.

Does this problem persist in this model too?

If so, i'd be stuck for what else to get =\

[akkillees]

umm so far no major problems

actually there really arent any, the only one is that if u touch the screen too much when ur browsing the internet it restarts the device, but u really have to be constantly touching it a lot kinda fast

other than that its awesome

[amindumaru]

did u have any problems with it yet? cuz ive heard some people say they have lots of hardware problems

[akkillees]

i've had it for a little over 6 months

[amindumaru]

how long have u had it?

[roughryder5]

its their job to critic devices...if they said everything good all the time, their wouldnt be a need for them there.