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A review of the Archos 5 Internet Tablet has been posted over at Nate's Ebook News. 'The Archos 5 is both thin and just the right size that I can hold it in portrait in one hand. It was nice to hold, and having used PDAs with 4" and 3" screen I was quite pleased with the 4.8" wide screen. There's no stylus, but the screen was reasonably fingertip friendly. The hardware is great, but I had serious issues with the software. I'm about to return this tablet, again, because it keeps crashing. I can live with system crashes for a little while, but the first unit also lost Wifi. I've also had to force a reboot a number of times because half the screen went black.

Anything But iPod have published a comprehensive two-part review of the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android. 'The Archos 5 Android tablet has some very nice specs under the hood; 4.8" resistive touch screen with a resolution of 800x480, 800mHz ARM CPU, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and capacities ranging from 8GB flash to 500GB HDD. All of these features are of course to make use of the operating system, which is Google's Android- making the device more of a MID (Mobile Internet Device) than a PMP. Then again, you won't find media format support like this on most Android devices.'

A review of the Archos 5 internet tablet has been posted over at Liliputing.com. '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 core, the Archos 5 Internet tablet is a pretty good media player. It offers all the features you would expect including excellent audio and video playback capabilities and access to online media and files stored on your home network. It even has a built in FM radio tuner.'

CNET Asia have published their review of the Archos 9 PC Tablet (Atom Z510 Processor 1.1GHz, 1GB RAM). 'The Archos 9 certainly looks the part, with a sleek, thin body, solid brushed-metal construction, and gently tapered edges. It's much closer to what we think a tablet device should look like than the bulky Dell Mini 10 tablet prototype built by Stantum. The default screen orientation is horizontal, but the body fits very naturally into a single hand when held vertically (which made us wonder why there wasn't a physical screen rotation button anywhere). At 820g, it feels a bit dense and heavy for such a small device.'

Reg Hardware have published their review of the Archos 9 PC Tablet. 'In the hand the 9 feels similar to the Archos 7 we looked at 12 months ago, only writ larger. The basic construction is much the same and though the case is plastic, rather than metal, the 9 shares the 7's solid hewn-from-a-block-of-granite feel. At 256 x 134 x 17mm and weighing 800g the 9 is quite a hefty device - big for a PMP, small for a netbook yet ideal for a tablet, although holding it is definitely a two handed affair. Inputs and outputs only extend to a power jack, a single USB port and a 3.5mm audio output but if you cough up £60 for the Archos port replicator that plugs into a concealed proprietary jack at the bottom you can extend that by 2 additional USB ports, an extra audio out, a microphone input, a VGA port and a 100/10 Mbps Ethernet socket.'

CNET have published a review of the Archos 9 PC Tablet (Atom Z510 1.1GHz, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, Windows 7 Starter). 'At $549, it's more expensive than the entry-level Apple iPad, and certainly does many things that device can't, from running Firefox to playing streaming video (although our attempts to play Hulu videos were less than successful). But unlike our preliminary impressions of Apple's device, it's a struggle to perform many basic tasks on the Archos 9. With a more responsive touch screen and a beefier processor, it could have been a contender. The Archos 9 certainly looks the part, with a sleek, thin body, solid brushed-metal construction, and gently tapered edges. It's much closer to what we think a tablet device should look like than the bulky Dell Mini 10 tablet prototype built by Stantum that we looked at recently.'

A review of the Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet/portable media player has been posted over at Tracy and Matt's Blog. 'Opening the Archos 5 box for the first time I pleased with its initial look. Sitting comfortably in its box it looked very much like my Tom Tom. Once removed from the box I could not believe how heavy it was. This 120GB model weighs in at a whopping 300 grams. Having not thought about its weight in advance I was a little bewildered as i cant imagine walking around with that in my pocket. Maybe I should have thought about it. Its never going to be featherweight and be able to store 160 movies on it! It certainly feels well made and robust.'

A review of the Archos AV700 100GB portable media player has been posted over at Vcr Dvd Recorder Reviews. 'The AV700 with its amazing 7 "LCD widescreen and 480x234 pixels is the media partner. This is by far the largest display of all media players and AV700 is less than an inch thick. A capacity of 100 GB in an 8-inch computer is amazing: you can record 400 hours video, 250 movies, 55,000 songs or 1,000,000 photos! and play TV in 1000, and film. L 'AV700, you can store videos and enjoy music from the Microsoft PlaysForSure websites. Now you canall your entertainment with you wherever you go. Use the battery Archos AV700, you can save up to 30 hours of life for music and up to 4 hours video playback. Transfer via USB 2.0. Then you organize your photos and slideshows on the camera's LCD screen or TV. Weight 210 ounces Dimensions: 4.2 "x8.2" x0.8 "

Trusted Reviews have published a review of the Archos 3 Vision portable media player. 'The Archos 3 doesn't come overstuffed with features, but that doesn't really bother me. The voice recorder, FM radio, photo viewer and stopwatch are all simple but usable, and I can do without the low-quality games or notepad applications that some PMPs insist on packing in. The one 'extra' feature it does offer - a built in FM transmitter - is genuinely useful. It uses the headphone cable as an aerial, which means you need to keep your phones plugged in, but with the FM transmitter switched on the Archos 3 will transmit music directly to your car stereo or kitchen radio.'

Trusted Reviews have published their review of the Archos 5 Internet Tablet/portable media player. 'Looking at the hardware, it's clear that this is a serious portable media player. There was a time when Archos devices were all about features, with design seeming like a distant afterthought, but the Archos 5 Internet Tablet looks fantastic and feels great in the hand too. The device is dominated by the 4.8in screen, which is a real beauty - the colours are rich and vibrant, while blacks are surprisingly deep, making this a truly excellent movie machine. Add to that the excellent viewing angle, and the Archos 5 Internet Tablet can happily entertain more than one person.