Comments on: Best Buy: Archos 5 Destroys iPod Touch

By: anknown

anknown — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:53:04 +0000

I try and I try to like Apple… I really do. Their roots are something to be Respected.

But the Apple Fan/user base as a whole make them an idiots savior.

The Only Post I see in here that are flaming the Archos are Apple Fan boys who have ONLY read specs online and have no real world hands on experience with actual hardware and software. they think that cuz they own an Apple product they are oso1337??

Although I do like playing games and browsing on my iPod touch, which is the only driving argument(multi-touch/scaling) I LIKE the openness of the Archos. REAL “geek” loves having access to their OS and command line WITHOUT jailbreaking and having to worry about what scheme Apple will come up with to screw us on our jailbreak.

I’ll take it one step further…. THE VIDEO playback support is just WAY better than Apples(I’m including flash on websites)…

@Joseph Walking Eagle
this is the best description as to why someone would buy either products

By: Joseph Walking Eagle

Joseph Walking Eagle — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:44:17 +0000

The Archos 5 didn’t have the Peavey guitar app and games I was interested in, so I purchased the Apple Touch.

The Apple Touch didn’t have the 500gigs of storage and HD I needed for my multimedia files during travel, so I purchased the Archos also.

Both products could learn and gain from the other and make an ultimate gadget. Or maybe some company will come out of left field within the next year and compete the job neither here have quite finished just yet.

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:51:20 +0000

From my experience with the itouch and Archos, I would have to say the battle between the two is for who likes Apple and who likes 3rd party. It’s clear that both machines have their strong points and weaknesses. It’s the OS that either brings the weaknesses out or hides them or makes it manageable. I don’t think the battle is between the Archos 5 anymore, check out the Archos 4.3″. It has an HD Video Camera, Bluetooth 2.1, Android 2.2, still a resistive display and no GPS…but the 7″ and 10″ have capacitive screens, and they are reasonably priced. the 4.3″ @ $199, and the 10.1″ @ $300. I say tomato, you say too-ma-toe. Archos is cheaper and works better for my lifestyle than the itouch.

By: Haha

Haha — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:20:38 +0000

T. Jones is completely right. This thing is an overpriced piece of junk. What will anyone do with this? Its too big and cumbersome for most purposes, and why not get a tablet PC at that price to do everything even better? My Archos products have had faulty hardware after around a year (they wanna charge me half the price to repair it?!), while my iPods clunk away.

It is definitely not a good showcase of Android.

By: Konrad

Konrad — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:37:09 +0000

Android is for geeks only. iPhone OS is for geeks AND normal people. The only reason Android sales are higher this quarter is because everyone is holding their breath for the iPhone 4G (or whatever it will be called).

iPhone rocks.

By: vanderzaam

vanderzaam — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:15:54 +0000

Waiting for my archos5 to come in the mail. Already have the iphone 3gs that i love but was drawn to the bigger screen and quality video from archos. Did i waste my money or save my iphone from over use?

By: Itouchfan

Itouchfan — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:34:04 +0000

Jailbroken itouch + massive appstore And great firmware just about smashes the competition away.

Who said itouch doesnt have bluetooth?

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:50:21 +0000

I have had the Archos 5 IT since october 2009 and sice having it there has been 4 updates to the software and nothing seems to go wrong i also would respectfully ask that the immature group of people who believe in profanity to prove a point need to have a lesson in making people listen to you. Further more on the archos subject There are Down falls the archos 5 doesnt have a biometric scanner which is one thing that i really was disappointed about what that means is that multitouch will be near impossibility for archos 5 IT and for those of you here who are apple\ipod users biometric is the cool piece of glass that covers your screen on the ipod touches that allows for smooth touch screen and not having to apply pressure (try using your touch with a glove on). Archos does allow for hands to be covered which is a good or bad thing depends on your use of the device. The other thing is yes the archos 5 IT has a accelerometer in it but it will only work for horizontal one way and vertical one way switching which is again another down fall. as far as apps go apple has beaten Archos but hey they have thousands of techies locked up in their basement working on those so hats off to them. But you can set up your archos to be able to not only connect to your network and surf the net but you can also browse the files on your computers and copy them directly to your device over wifi (and transfers are quite fast) so its really up to what you are looking for in a device so to each his own and goodnight

By: domax

domax — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:30:48 +0000

the archos 5 is much better

By: domax

domax — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:08:05 +0000

all you apple fanboys need to respect what is better.you cant just say the archos 5 android is bad.im not saying the archos is better its just that both have things they are best at like the archos 5 is mostly for internet browsing and watching hd videos and the i pod touch is for gaming and chatting.

By: Dustin South

Dustin South — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:23:29 +0000

Funny how no one is knockin’ the Archos 5 IT now that it’s been released…

Go figure.

By: marta Lebron

marta Lebron — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:47:41 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:00:16 +0000

Isn’t the Archos 5 Android only 800mhz, not 1ghz?

By: comaxon

comaxon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:25:17 +0000

I agree with OMER:

Fuck you ARCHOS FANS !

PROPAGANDA!!

By: 4DThinker

4DThinker — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:48:07 +0000

I’ve got both. For 32gb version the Archos was more expensive, but it also supports microSD cards up to 32gb (if you can find one). Archos has updated the firmware twice in the week I’ve had mine. I’ve found an Android version of every Touch app I insist on having. Yes, there’s a G-sensor in both. GPS in the 5. Navigation is free to try for a short time, then a one-time fee to enable forever. There are other Android apps that put the GPS to work as well. Updates happen directly on the 5 via WiFi, and have been free so far. There doesn’t seem to be anything using multi-touch on the 5, but that may be an Android 1.5 limitation. Android 2.0 is supposed to support it. You can use just about any media app to drag and drop Music/Video/Photos to the 5. No iTunes limitation.