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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Probably just as well, because nobody abandons a product quicker than Archos.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scooby]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@scoobydooby They never contacted me.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dick Lynch]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@scoobydooby <br>A9 =fail<br>support gone <br>Archos =failure]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[hdawggy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@scoobydooby bit 3.5G looks so cool!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[emopoops]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 5:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[This article needs to be tagged 'Duke Nukem' and 'Forever'.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CamronCake]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 7:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[How could you not want to carry a phone with those kind of specs?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Prevacator]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Prevacator <br>Agree, ... its shame. Already looks better then Windows 7 Phone, just slap a *nix class OS and wham, secure, fast, stable ... I'd get it!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steveorevo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 10:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's too bad. I would seriously consider this. That is of course if the Mini 5 is outrageously overpriced...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TechJunkie21]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@TechJunkie21 I was just going to point out - doesn't that Archos render look incredibly like the Mini5? It's almost identical, in fact.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[RoyFokker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[I almost feel bad for Archos whenever I read about them ..but then I remember how horrible their products are..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[yyandrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA["Lack of carrier support"?  What exactly does that mean?<br><br>Why don't they just sell it directly?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Information Central]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Information Central They just can't afford it to sell directly, their distribution network for this kind of devices is too thin. Besides this, no expectations that the device would sell well even with two carries on the board...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndroidFreewareORG]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 5:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Archos implements great technology but their hardware is cheap. Everything I've bought from the break really easy. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MMAFIGHTER]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Good thing they scraped this phone, could you imagine how Archos much would charge for phone plugin, SMS plugin, MMS codec plugin, Internet plugin, phone network plugin along with video codecs<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[OCEAN CLAK]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@OCEAN CLAK <br>Good thing they scraped this phone, could you imagine how much Archos would charge for phone plugin, SMS plugin, MMS codec plugin, Internet plugin, phone network plugin along with video codecs<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[OCEAN CLAK]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@OCEAN CLAK <br><br>Words from my mouth... you took them.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SFR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@OCEAN CLAK - AMEN. <br><br>Or when you do finally unlock the phone plugin, you realize you need to pay an additional $14 if you want to be able to press the number "4". <br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scooby]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[They scraped the phone?  Why?  To remove barnacles?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Information Central]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 6th 2010 3:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[What's wrong with going the Nokia route & sell it unlocked? I'm sure someone would buy it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wil2Win]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Wil2Win <br><br>Nokia has brand loyalty and makes good products.  Archos?  Not so much...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Delta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 10:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[yawn.  yet another failure to launch a proposed archos product.  well at least this one didn't get launched and then fail over and over again for everyone who was duped into buying it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[willow_twf]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[i agree if they came out with this on there own unlocked at a price much lower than the dell mini5 it would get the same customers that would want the dell mini5 but at a lower price ....problem is they won't and a recent history of products that did not meet consumers exspectations in one way or another ...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bocefuss4500]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Kind of a shame, with those specs and Archos media experience it probably would have been a good device. <br><br>I hope they take the 1GHz ARM Cortex and put it in a PMP. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[voodoo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Looking at that picture it lacks the physical buttons that Google require for Android Market apps.<br><br>I do love my Android touting A5IT but wouldn't want a phone based on it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ChazClout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 4:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Most U.S. Carrier probably never heard Archos except T-Mobile.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 5:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Where's the $85 Coby phone?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[andy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 5:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[I can just picture AT&T or Verizon's Customer Service call centers being absolutely flooded with calls from users complaining that their phone is locking up every 5 minutes or rebooting itself for no obvious reason.<br><br>Not surprising Archos couldn't drum up any carrier support... apparently even the French carriers want nothing to do with it.  Almost makes me giggle a little.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dicrism]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 6:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why can't they just sell it unlocked or provide plans themselves like Google]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnTitor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 6:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[can anybody answer this??<br><br>1GHz ARM Cortex > 1Ghz Snapdragon??]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[josuearisty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 7:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Pretty much. But then it's Archos, so they may be using slightly older tech.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[etrnldrk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 7:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@JAG<br>That comparison makes no sense.ARM Cortex (A8) is the latest released version of the ARM architecture, it can theoretically run at any clock rate the manufacturer makes. A 1GHz Snapdragon is an example of an ARM Cortex A8 CPU]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnTitor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 9:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[@JAG No. They should be approximately the same in terms of performance.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[coolbho3000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 5th 2010 12:56AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why do they need carrier support can't they sell it as a unlocked phone. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[comptr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 8:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[I would never buy an unlocked smart phone from Archos.  Today's super phones usually need good manufacturer support due to working out bugs and kinks with firmware updates.<br><br>Archos does not have a reputation for post-sale support of their products. AT ALL.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dkarageo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 4th 2010 11:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Archos Phone Tablet shelved due to lack of carrier support?]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/archos-phone-tablet-shelved-due-to-lack-of-carrier-support/</guid><description><![CDATA[I thought the real problem is they are reading news about patent issues with Apple. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[landus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 5th 2010 1:40AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
