The Archos 605 portable media player is used for great audio quality and support for quite some video codec’s. It not a slim type and the touch screen is 4.3 inch with 800×480 pixel resolution is best for watching videos. It also has a set of navigation and function keys for volume and a built in speaker. It looks like a table top TV sans an antenna.
User interface transitions are jerky and hearing the soft hum and feeling the vibration of the HDD can be small unnerving. Media Player is Wi-Fi capable out of the box but to actually surf the net or connect to anything. Once you have installed the Plug-in for the browser you will be able to access your email, check out YouTube etc. Audio quality is very impressive with very clear tones and audio settings are provided to you adjust the volume. It has no FM radio but you can buy a Web Radio Plug-in.
Video format support includes MPEG-4, AVI, FLV and WMV at up to 30fps. It does not have a Resume Play feature and it doesn’t support.TXT nor does it have support for MS document files although it has a PDF reader. Totally it delivers audio for 11 hours and video for 4 hours 25 minutes. The only charger provided with the kit is via USB.
