Archos 2 Vision, 3 Vision and Clipper spotted in French wilderness

With the 2 Vision's price and spec recently emerging, all that was missing were some "real life" shots of the player without studio lighting and professional makeup. Archos Lounge has gone and filled that gap, with the added bonus of some 3 Vision and Clipper sightings. Disappointingly, whereas the touch-sensitive horizontal slider originally looked to have been bracketed by buttons sitting flush with the case, in reality those are of the bumpy, cheap looking variety. We can take no umbrage with the thin casing though, as it looks just as skinny as we were led to believe. Hit up the read link to explore the player for yourself, or slide past the break to see it side by side with the 3 Vision.

[Via CrunchGear]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 4:35AM]

Im not sure why archos is making new versions of their mp3 players. I think this archos 3 can look cooler, so they can change its design. Android would be a good addition too. aND maybe inject some nVidia Tegra into them....at least the bigger ones like archos 4,5,7,etc

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 4:36AM]

meh.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 4:39AM]

Am I the lone one waiting for tegra and HD? Or else the simple choice is ZuneHD

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 4:53AM]

omg ARCHOS you have the best players out there you are just so damn expensive!!! first you drop the archos 605 price and them release the archos 5 and 7 IMT and charge users all these plug-ins. You could easily take on the ipod or iphone. You are just going to have to work on your price and your features and for god sake put more graphics in them and run away from linux.. get android or something i dont care.. I am still a happy owner of a archos 605 wifi I had a few ipods and they just dont do what this thing does and they do mostly what the ipod does.. ARCHOS FOR GOD SAKE try and do what isright this time around please add a better touch screen and hell make a freaking phone lol!!!

[1 Posted Aug 24th 2009 4:59AM]

Run away from linux, to android

Eh?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 6:04AM]

Yet they're still cheaper than iPods of similar spec :/

[Lundmark Posted Aug 24th 2009 5:13AM]

Looks horrible.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 5:19AM]

These are just dime-a-dozen Chinese MP3 players that Archos has rebranded and slightly re-worked. Not very exciting.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 7:41AM]

山寨都做的比它好看....

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 11:41AM]

"in reality those are of the bumpy, cheap looking variety"

RLY? Those don't look cheap to me. I've seen (and unfortunately used) much cheaper looking buttons.

Also, being "bumpy" is exactly the advantage of buttons over touchscreen: This is the only way you can use a device completely without looking at it.

Why do "geeks" hate practicality these days? It used to be the other way around