http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/ Engadget Comments for Archos 7 acquired in the wild, critiqued in French http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/
Other than that, archoses are pretty nice.]]>Nov 28th 2008 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Nov 28th 2008 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Kidding.
To get on topic, I have to agree, they are really nice video players. I played with a couple of them at a store and they are pretty responsive, but I think the size is unpractical because you need to have it in a bag. What also sucks about them, is that if you want some of the extras, you have to pay :\
Otherwise they kick any iPods ass in video playing from what I saw..]]>Nov 28th 2008 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Nov 28th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Nov 28th 2008 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/


]]>Nov 28th 2008 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Nov 28th 2008 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/there's nothing wrong with someone having a link in their signature.
stop being a jerk.]]>Nov 28th 2008 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Nov 28th 2008 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Nov 28th 2008 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Looks like we need to pay up for extra software like Skype...]]>Nov 28th 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Nov 28th 2008 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Nov 28th 2008 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Nov 28th 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Lucky soul? The Archos 7 was available for immediate delivery in their US online store for at least a month now.
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* waiting to be down-downranked *]]>Nov 28th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/
For starters, they didn't say there was anything *wrong* with it being in French; they just said that is *is* in French and they cannot read it. If it was in Russian and you couldn't read it, would that make you stupid? No, it would simply mean that you don't speak Russian. That's not a crime and it doesn't make you any less intelligent than anyone else. The article didn't say a frikking thing about French being a stupid language or anything even remotely close to that, so why did you imply that they did?

Secondly, why attack people from the United States specifically? I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but France and the US are -- surprise -- on two entirely different continents. We don't exactly need to know French for everyday life, so most people don't. We do, however, use things like *Spanish*, considering how much closer Mexico is, and a good portion of the population speaks at least some. If we were in a position like Europe and surrounded by so many countries, we probably would be multi-lingual. But as it, it's very unlikely that we'll need more than the languages of the continent where we reside (ask yourself: do you speak any native *African* languages? No? I thought not).

Third, you are truly ignorant if you think that all "Americans" speak English. "America" refers to any area in both North and South America, you git, and that includes Portugese, Spanish, all the and hundreds of Native American languages on *both* continents. Kindly read up a bit on geography before accusing other people of being stupid.

(Oh, and it's Plymouth, not "Pleymouth"; the "narrow-thinking country bumpkins" you refer to are a good deal more intelligent than yourself, by the looks of your post, and the US is far open-minded than places like France on issues like religion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_France#The_hijab_issue ); and Frech is an overrated, clumsly language that falls apart when examined closely and breaks nearly all of its language rules, even moreso than English. Not to mention the fact that both English and French were the result of invasions by Germanic tribes and that neither was a direct influence on the other.) ]]>Nov 28th 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/Also I see a lot of waits, all in all I'd say this is not something that excites me a lot, I'd go for the earlier version if I wanted portable.

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Incidentally, there are parts deep in the US where they also speak french, although it's discouraged by the officials.
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I like the idea of ipod games while flying long duration flights, but the archo is 7 inches, but dont know how portable in the pocket that can be.

I doubt i can get an iphone anytime soon as its very expensive and i need one that is unlocked and I only see them in 16 GB and that will not cut it for me. Any assistance would be great :)]]>Nov 29th 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/archos-7-acquired-in-the-wild-critiqued-in-french/------------------------------------------------------------------------

11-25-08 Email to Paul D. Manager RMA Center Archos USA (Email remained unanswered on 12-4-08) (Archos CEO Crohas was cc-ed):

Paul D.,

I have not had the pleasure receiving a call back from Archos "corporate" to further discuss the serious quality issues with my Archos 705 unit. I was expecting a call last Monday as promised.

To summarize our phone conversation from last week:
My Archos 705 Wifi 80 Gb unit is in repair for the sixth time in less than 1 year. The quality issues have ranged from faulty video card, to defective sound card, to hard disk reading errors.
I sent an email with my concerns to Archos USA in May 2008. I never received an answer. I then sent a certified letter with additional quality issues in August 2008. Again no answer.
The standard 1 year warranty will run out in the middle of December. At the historic rate the Archos 705 will become defective again by mid January 2009. In order to solve my problem with the Archos 705 quality, I requested in the order of preference:

1. A refund of the residual value of the unit, or
2. A warranty extension by 1 year, since I have not been able to enjoy the Archos Wifi for as long as a consumer should be able to, or
3. A docking unit, because this will allow me to use this portable device without touching it. This no-touch environment potentially extends its useful life.

Your offer of free software is amicable, but does not address the actual quality problems.

Regards
John S.]]>Dec 5th 2008 2:10PM