Archos 605 finds its way with new GPS add-on
By Paul Miller 
posted Apr 22nd 2008 5:42PM
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It looks like it had a trumpet sticking out at it's back.
What do you do when your PMP is missing support for the growingly popular x264 MKV format? Why, you add GPS of course.
Douche bags.
growingly = increasingly... i got a headache trying to work out why that sentence didnt seem right
It annoys me too, until I realize that there's no PMP on the market that plays the MKV container, and when even VLC has trouble decoding DTS content you can understand why.
if you want portable player that plays anything get a umpc and stuff codecs into it. I got a samsung q1 for cheap.
Please let this come to Australia.
They also announced Flash 9 support for the web browser, so suck it iTouch fans.
It's not an iTouch. It's an iPod touch. Get it straight, people need to learn to read. But it looks cool.
"Sucking it" is actually carrying a 1 pound device that's almost 3/4 inch thick around and trying to make yourself feel better about it by touting it's Flash 9 support.
but will i be able to listen to my music while using gps for navigation?
Just speak the name of your destination loudly into the horn!
Is there really a "Dongola Road" in London?
Yeah--I think it's in Dingleberry Heights.
@ couchpundit:
comment of the year so far...
My 605 just got way cooler. I didn't know that was possible. Glad i didn't roll with the 705 instead.
Can you listen to tunes while in GPS mode? That would be pretty cool.
What about support for the big brother 705 and being able to listen to tunes while in GPS mode is definitely important I agree.
Where is the 606? I'm waiting :(
My 605 is so unreliable already (my REPLACEMENT keeps crashing) I won't be getting this and putting the poor thing under even more strain.
I've had every generation of this player since the good old av400 days and they're been getting worse reliability wise without adding any real features (as wifi and touchscreen aren't useful for me).
1998 just called; they want their music player back. You'd think they could do better than a silver square box.
dude its not a just music player... it has wifi, it can record tv, it can do ANYTHING... and now it can tell me where to drive... which makes it THAT much cooler
If you saw a "silver square box" this small with 802.11g Wi-Fi, an 800x480 touchscreen, and 160GB of storage in 1998, you'd have thought it fell out of some Area-51 worker's pocket.
Hater.
I like the whole package that the archos 605 offers. I've heard numerous complaints of unreliability though. I'm thinking about taking the bait. We'll see.
Mine's not unreliable, it's just choosy about when it'll work. Much like famous painters...or union tradesmen.
Really, mine works fine 98% of the time. Granted, there are a few bugs, but those don't do much else besides restarting the unit, and you can avoid most of them.
Other than that, it's really really really nice.
Mine is so unreliable. It locks up or crashes quite a bit to the point i have stopped using it and just use my iPhone for everything media wise now.
It seems to have got worse with the latest updates. Though having the dock and recording to it is very useful.
Is that a cup holder?
no... its an ipod cradle mr. jobs
Please tell me that is not the actual UI for the GPS software, because it if it is, I don't think I could be less interested.
I don't think I want my 605 sitting in sunlight all day long...
You don't have to. Take it out of the cradle, plug in some headphones and take it wherever you go. Listen to music when you shop. Watch recorded TV during your lunch break. Then when you get back in the car, plug it in again and it's a GPS system again. It's like an ipod. If an ipod had GPS and could record TV. Which it doesn't. But this does.
Now all they need is for this little baby to be able to connect via an ad hoc wireless connection and we're talking serious uber gizmo.
It's using Sygic Drive as the interface. It's not bad in terms of routing, but inputting an address can be complicated as it breaks down large cities into counties.
As long as you shut it down once in awhile, mine works great. I use it everyday. I don't care how shitty the GPS is probably going to be, for 130 I might as well give it a whirl. If only it had phone capabilities.
ugh i cant stand the whole phone+mp3 player merger that seems to be the popular trend. every single phone i've tried to listen to music on has abysmal sound quality which is further effed up by the GSM buzz (the one that sets off unsheilded speakers when you get a phone call).
its a great concept and everything, but they really need to work on better sound quality before working on just getting things put together.
so can i listen to musoc while usong the gps? the only reason i have not bought it yet is because i really want to be able to listen to my tunes while using the gps and im not sure if i will get it if i cant listen to music