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- BillGates0
Ok, I took a week to test the archos 101.
here's my short review for those interrested in getting one.
btw I have the Archos 101 8gb.pros:
- Price, price and price, I paid €300 for it, which is nothing for all the shit you get
- plug and PLAY!! FFS,
I got it, turned it on, took 2 min to do the setup and I was accessing my home network without having install a single fuckn program. I was actually amazed that I could watch my movies, read my comics, transfer files without wasting any time.
using it with my external hdd's worked without any setup,
mouting it on mac or pc displays the tablet as an external drive, you just drop whatever you want in any folder, unplug it, it works,
fuck itunes.
- this tablet is amazingly light, commuting with it and holding it with one hand is not tiring at all, I use it on the train and subway and people look at me because I'm cool and modern.
- sound quality of the speakers (stereo),
I wanted to walk the streets holding it like a boombox
- no crashes yet.
but some programs won't run well on it because of the screen size
- battery life is decent I get roughly 10 to 11 hours of browsing, reading, listening to music (I don't play video games so it may be shorter when you use CPU intensive games)
- very responsive capacitive screen, no problem getting the hang of it, sometimes it is too sensitive though, no lag and no dead pixels
- video playback is smooth, watching movies on my network didn't lag at all (-1 apparently you can't rotate while you watch one, maybe you can but I haven't found it yet)cons:
- The screen is too damm shiny, I had to get an ipad antiglare and cut it so I won't constantly look at myself while I read. forget about using it outside in full sunlight (ipad screen +1)
- Angle of vision is shitty, too be honest the antiglare solved it a bit
- weight, it is too light, it scares me
- camera?? What camera, they could have left it out, very very shitty vga one
- android market- you'll need a special apk to access it, but it works fine once you installed itverdict: 4 stars,
Archos got a game changer there, but their PR department is ruining it, there is no fuckn advertising about it and it is pretty fuckn hard getting your hands on one.
I hope next year they'll upgrade it to a tegra processor.
btw: I'm still running 2.1, I heard bad reviews about the froyo update so I'll let other test it and bitch about quirky problems till they fix every froyo bugs. why won't people understand that you never jump on the first update.haven't tested:
Tether - my better half got a 3g and I got a nokia that did desert's storm, so no tethering for me
hdmi output, don't have a tvIt is def not an ipad, but it is a pretty solid tablet nonetheless,
hombre, chrismas was hectic at work, haven't had the time to respond, except trolling qbn eheehh