Archos - Arachnoid of the PMP Arena - "Ditch Your iPhone Dreams"

Archos - Arachnoid of the PMP Arena?

I bet you will ditch your iPhone Dreams after you read this article!

Archos must be one of the best PMP's in the Arena, that could have come out from a frustrated iPod user? This packs almost all that one can imagine and more than that!

Let's get to the features of Archos wasting no more time. The looks are simple, and yet elegant, well thought of design, neat colors, and thoughtful button positioning. Ergonomically the Archos beats the " Thumb Driven Zen and iPod" - is that only it? Read on..

Built-In Camcorder - Imagine not a Still Camera, but a full fledged Camcorder on your PMP! Yes that is true, you have a high resolution camcorder that can shoot till you burn all the left out memory! Indeed! 30 to 160 Gigs of memory to shoot for a life time!

Plays Videos - Archos can play every known type of Popular Video Files such as WMV, MPEG-4, AAC, Quicktime and JPEG Photos as well. The all new high resolution screen with a 800x480 pixel resolution makes it much of a delight to watch.


Record TV - Hey this is cool, With the optional DVR Station, you can record your Fav TV Show and watch it later while on your car or Bus to work! You can record from a TV, DVD Player, STBox/Cable Box or even a VCR! [yuk, why did they forget a FM Tuner?]

Photo Viewer - Photos look so good on the Archos, more with Music and Transition effects. Yes you can build a Slide Show in a jiff, add music to it, run it straight on the TV using the Optional DVR Station. [Microsoft Photostory will weep blood now?]

Photo Transfer - One can connect a digital camera and transfer photos directly to the Archos. Transfer it, make a slide show, add background music [throw that bulky laptop dude] from your music collection - See it on any TV where ever you are! - [insane right? - but it is true.! Just the kind of gadget I would Love!]

And yeah it plays Music too, did i forget? - Nah. Archos can play your Music from MP3 to WMV - this will be the least feature I would want to mention! [C'mon man, Archos has got so much why would I talk about Just playing Music?]

Sync with Windows Media Player every time you connect to the system and charge the batteries same time. This is hassle free!

Storage - 30GB can store upto 40 movies[QVGA resolution MPEG-4 at 1000 KBPS] or 3,00,000 photographs or 15,000 songs[128 Kbits/s]
Archos comes in 30, 80 and a 160 GB flavor - which is your choice?

Connectivity - WiFi inside Archos can stream Video/Audio/Jpeg content to your WiFi enabled Set Top Box! - Wires - for the lame! Go WiFi and get tangle free! Use [read Exploit] the best technology can offer!

Display - Sports a high resolution 4.3'' touch screen (800x480 pixels)

Internet enabled to surf the Web, share content, and access Web video sites (eg DailyMotion)

Note: Ok - this is supposed to be the best bet for our Digital Photography On The Go Storage/Viewer Combo. But I thought this was too advanced, and would distract the Photographer from Shooting! So I thought to review this in a seperate post.