http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/ Engadget Comments for 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/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
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This doesn't make sense.]]>Oct 8th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
"Hi, my name is [insert my name] and my email address is [insert email address] and I live in [insert town]. Please spam me and stalk me since I am a big troll"

and they got that info from their email confirmation stuff. You can look up that post too. They did it on 3 articles.

When I emailed the editor he said "Too bad, so sad"

So yeah, don't expect Engadget to be rational or even mature.]]>Oct 8th 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
Your'e not the only one. I remember when i wrote a comment about them not getting paid enough to edit the articles as a joke, even though it was high ranked, it "mysteriously" got deleted.

Either someone got buthurt, or the comment system needs to be fixed. Regardless, they are really losing merit, but of course, its fixable ;)]]>Oct 8th 2009 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
I gotz diabetes now.]]>Oct 8th 2009 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
Watch this post will disappear or I will get banned. Oh well that's why they make fake email address'.

:P

]]>Oct 8th 2009 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/He st-st-stuttered when You asked him what he's thinkin' 'bout
felt like he couldn't breathe You asked what's wrong with him
My best friend jason said "Oh, he's just bein' Nilay"

XD Ban me now.... lol ]]>Oct 8th 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
Somehow, you're profile has been set to private.

Curious.]]>Oct 8th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
And sacapuntas, I lol'd hard.]]>Oct 10th 2009 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Thx for the heads-up. [whispering] I wont let Nilay know I still rock a Tungsten.]]>Nov 12th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/flash versions are incredibly slim too
but they also have a 500gb version
500 GIGABYTES]]>Oct 8th 2009 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
id buy 1 if it had 3G. archos f*cked up. screw releasing a phone in 2 months. i was waiting for 8 months to buy a new phone. and they screwed it up]]>Oct 8th 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid=537E1A2D7D242B718C57D60AF16A0D5D.bbolsp-app02-23?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=-2976924519062682622&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=archos+5&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960]]>Oct 8th 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
Very interested to see how Android works on this thing. I'm expecting it to be a bit pokey.

Note that people are (annoyingly) complaining about the thickness of the hard drive version. The slim model uses SSD. Archos doesn't hide the fact that you get the slim or, erm, not quite so slim model depending on whether you want SSD or HD. If they had a 64GB SSD model, that would probably be the one to get. 32GB, with space eaten up by the OS, etc. - that doesn't sound appealing if your goal is to throw a bunch of media on this thing.
]]>Oct 8th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
Initial reaction to browser - best mobile browser I have used. Since I prefer mobile sites on screens ]]>Oct 8th 2009 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
Any word on whether or not it's due to get Flash 10 sometime down the road?]]>Oct 8th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
They do have a pretty extensive (p)review and lots of videos there too.]]>Oct 8th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
Second big disappointment was no GMail app. That's right, it's an Android device without GMail. There's also no Contacts or Calendar sync going on here, either. I have no idea why they would strip these functions out of the OS, especially considering that's one of the main reasons I wanted the thing. Why sell and Android device that doesn't integrate with the Google ecosystem?

As a PMP it does seem pretty good. I was able to easily sync my movies, songs and pictures with Windows Media Player without a hitch and they all show up nicely on the device. It is also very slim and light (I have the 32GB version), but at the same time doesn't feel like it will break in my pocket.

Over all, I'm not impressed and am considering returning it. I really don't understand why they have taken away so much functionality from the Android system, especially since that is what I was looking forward to the most.]]>Oct 8th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
http://jkontherun.com/2009/10/08/android-market-camera-compass-required/]]>Oct 8th 2009 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/Oct 8th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
Google has simply not yet released Gmail, Maps and the other Google android apps optimized for 800x480 screens.

But since Android 1.6 was just released 2 weeks ago, expect Google to release those apps to work on Archos soon.

Also consider that Archos supports 1280x720 output to a HDTV using HDMI, Google may want to adapt their apps to that output resolution as well.

As for installing other apps, you can download the .apk files and double click on them to install them. Many do work even if they are yet only optimized for 480x320 screens.]]>Oct 8th 2009 11:01PM