Archos 605 Wifi

I picked up a shiny new Archos 605 Wifi recently and I have been living with it for a while and thought I would post a quick few comments about it (seeing as many of my previous posts have simply been too long).

Good points: -

• I can surf the web over a WPA protected wireless connection
• It plays Xvid and DivX out of the box
• The screen is nice and big and really sharp

Bad points: -

• The Opera browser currently supplied in version 1.7.13 of the firmware is slow, annoyingly so.
• Google Reader does not work well on it at this time (not sure exactly who is to blame for this)
• You have to buy an add the plug-ins on top of what you have already paid for the device which at the time of my purchase was around £50.
• Can't charge standing up without a dock (home made or otherwise)

I got the 40GB version which was around the same price as the 30GB. To be honest I would have rather got the 30GB to get the thinner case so it was more pocket friendly.

Lastly, loads of people are trying to download the plug-in activation files from torrent sites. Currently this is a waste of time. These are serial number specific and this is very very fixed to a single device (loads of hardware signing and stuff like that going on under the hood).

Overall, I am happy with it and use it a lot, but I should have got a thinner one and the firmware still needs work in terms of performance in the pdf reader and the browser.