Don't buy Archos 605. GPS is missing. Wait for its next release

Don't buy Archos 605. GPS is missing. Wait for its next release
next year.

Just curious: what is Archos 605?


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Bernardo Rossi b.rossi@tin.it

Bernardo Rossi wrote:


Google pretty much answers the question.

It's a media player thingy with WIFI. Things like a browser, Real Video
software, Internet radio software and more, are all cost options.

Sorta like a typical PDA with more storage space, and less features, and a
proprietary OS. Horray.

And it's not "missing" a GPS. It just never had it in the first place.

Kinda like a car that has cost options like hub caps, plastic bumper bars,
carpeting. You know, things you don't _really_ need, but you get with all
other cars as standard anyway.
And of course, things like a sun roof are not available on that model - not
even as a cost option.

Just my opinion of course, but I don't hold much hope for the future GPS
enabled models anyway.

I mean, I know people want all-in-one gadgets that can make calls, organise
their lives, play games, play music, play video yadda, yadda, yadda. I know
this because they already exist, and people are buying them.

But a Media player / Wifi browser / SatNav all rolled into one? WITHOUT the
ability to load your own software? Sorta strange combination there.

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John Tserkezis wrote:
In my experience, devices like that which are designed to do many things
do not do any of then extraordinarily well. When you do have something
that does all those things to a leading-edge level, you've still lost
the ability to upgrade any singular function, as well as the ability to
use them separately, and likely not saved any significant amount of money.