Summary: Archos 5 Internet Tablet 32GB Ready to go One of the most common shortcomings of internet devices is that they are generally naked. They could feature lots of useful...
Excerpt: Archos has been in the PMP (personal media player) business for the longest time so when they did an Android-powered tablet with the Archos 5 , I thought the market will...
Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android Review Part 1
Anything but iPod
26 February 2010
Excerpt: Media players have gotten a lot of extra functionality over the last couple of years; Bluetooth, touchscreens, better video support and even more recently apps or widgets...
Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android Review Part 2
Anything but iPod
26 February 2010
Conclusion: The Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android is a very touchy subject for some people as it’s part awesome, part scrap. On one hand, you have excellent hardware (with the...
Pros: Very nice screen for video playback, Plays more or less all common video formats, Android OS means there’s a lot of applications available for it, Added media function...
Cons: Very slow at doing anything, doesn’t utilize the CPU properly, Not enough RAM to properly multitask many applications, Most likely the buggiest, most unstable device e...
Excerpt: The Archos 5 Internet Tablet is the first Google Android powered tablet from Archos, a company best known for making MP3 players and portable media players. And at it’s...
Conclusion: The Archos 5 is a great video player, but it disappoints as a premium Android Internet tablet and GPS unit.
Pros: The Archos 5 Internet tablet/portable media player offers a large, high-resolution touch-screen display, Wi-Fi, music playback, photos, Flash video and game compatibil...
Cons: GPS signal reception is poor enough to make the feature useless; many popular Android apps are unsupported; Flash video support is hit or miss; no multitouch support f...