March 25, 2004
Archos AV500 Mobile Viewer
Archos has just announced the successor to its AV300 series of mobile viewers. The AV500 has a more ergonomic design than the AV320, and is similar in size to a Jornada Pocket PC.
The AV500 comes in 20-GB and 40-GB models. The display screens have a 704x480 resolution, with 30-fps refresh. Also available are an external speaker and microphone.
Dual USB 2.0 ports enable direct camera-to-device transfer of images. Finally, Archos also allows users control of the AV500 via a remote control as a video player and recorder.
The AV500 sports DivX and MPEG4 playback, DRM support for Microsoft's WMA and WMV9 video format, as well as synchronization compatibility with Microsoft Windows Media Player.
The Archos AV500 will be the first PVP/PDA device on the market to support standard PIM applications (including Calendar, E-mail, and Notepad), and will include an integrated Web browser.
Internet connection is still unspecified, but is said to support Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GSM.
Posted by Sam | Permalink | TrackBackHuge screen, hard drive, lots of processor power, Wi-Fi *and* it's amazingly small. Hmmm...what's the battery life...3 minutes?
Posted by Craig at March 26, 2004 10:30 AMwell i just purchased on the 24th of march the av300 arrrgggh - do you know when this av500 will be released? do yo know if archos will offer upgrades for the av300 to support WMA? if this info were on their site i would have waited a couple of months for the 500 :(
Posted by karen at April 14, 2004 01:52 PMWow, the new model is almost too good to believe. I wonder if it will be victimized by the industry making it comply with copyright protection laws. The RCA model (Lyra) and the upcoming Microsoft (Zen) have to. Regardless, the 500 series is gorgeous. I was about to get the 300, but I'm going to have to wait! I wonder when it will be released in the states, and what the price tag will be. If I have to, I will have a friend buy it for me in Europe and ship it down. Can always change the language settings on the AV300 series?
Posted by Johnny at April 16, 2004 08:30 PMhow much is it
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