Comments on: Archos 9 Demonstrated on Video

By: Tibursio

Tibursio — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:09:52 +0000

I called them about an update corruption, they got me fixed up within 20 minutes. -Tib

By: nomax

nomax — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:37:34 +0000

Any ideas who is the manufacturer behind this? Any “leaks” yet?

By: Dukeswharf

Dukeswharf — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:33:49 +0000

I really like the form factor of this device and styling. Any news on when it’s due to be released?

By: ArchosFan

ArchosFan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:19:08 +0000

We have had several Archos players and haven’t had a bit of trouble with them. One of them travels daily with my husband on the train which he connects to the TV in the hotels and watches his favorite movies. No complaints here.

By: Chippy

Chippy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:27:53 +0000

Ok. Everyone, stop. not in my back yard please!

…and relax.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:15:25 +0000

I would take it elsewhere, but you are letting Alan and so-called “UMPCfan” post things against me on here so I have to defend myself here as well.

By: Chippy

Chippy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:46:12 +0000

Take this personal crap somewhere else please.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:07:09 +0000

Huh?

FYI, I am a teacher of mathematics and do not waste my time trolling forums. Posting under your own name is a worthwhile thing to do, but getting the facts straight is also worthwhile.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:51:51 +0000

I’ve had it in my hands, even though it is a handmade prototype so far and I haven’t ever seen a better 8.9″ Windows 7 based tablet pc device. So I’m pretty sure it’s the best ever so far.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:47:32 +0000

The “many of us” is just summed up in you and about 3 other usernames and IP adresses (among them 1 Nokia employee) who have been permanently banned from the archosfans forum about 9 months ago for repeated and blatant trolling. Since then, I have proof that you and your few troll friends have setup other usernames and login through proxies to continue the trolling on the Archosfans boards.

When that is not enough, you go around the rest of the Internet such as this blog comments, Engadget comments, youtube comments and spread your anti-Archos trolling.

Your an employee of a consumer electronics retailer in the US and your job also is to find new products in China, another of your trolling clique is an employee of Nokia and Symbian (working hard several years on that OS) another few have deep profetionnal interests in embedded platforms. At least I always post on the Internet under my same username. I wouldn’t advise you go around like that, hide your conflicts of interest, hide your real identity and proclaim that you have the only neutral opinion on things.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:59:19 +0000

Well, here’s more from that “reasonable guy” whom many of us have confronted for his over the top Archos fanboyism and complete disregard for anything w/o the Archos label. “Them” are MS and Intel, and the statement can be found on the forum that he runs.

“Archos is partnering with them, to later better be able to stab them in the back. It’s a totally normal business practice. A bit like Brutus was a close friend and partner of Julius Caesar before organizing to stab him in the back. By the way, Henri Crohas does look a bit like Julius Caesar, he does look a bit like he could be the next Emperor in the Entertainment, Mobility and Connectivity market. Intel/Microsoft partners with Archos to try and pull them away from staying the leader in ARM and embedded Linux based products, but I am sure the Intel/Microsoft reps know that it’s too late and that Archos won’t be corrupted.”

Oh my!!!

By: Tokyorob

Tokyorob — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:03:49 +0000

Does it come with the same useless customer service ??

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:26:35 +0000

Surely we should wait until we can get our hands on these devices before making ‘best ever’ statements.

Plenty of products have looked good on paper or at trade shows and have turned out not to live up to expectations….

By: Lucien

Lucien — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:09:27 +0000

If it’s that large with 9″ screen why couldn’t they include a keyboard? A tablet pc 9″ would be more interesting.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:37:04 +0000

Archos 5G has been available at 99€ in France with HSDPA subscriptions as I predicted in that post you pull out.

Archos isn’t doing a UMPC nor a MID, it’s a tablet netbook.

Anyways, Archos Android using ARM Cortex A8 by Texas Instruments remains the core competency of Archos and where they spend all of their R&D.

Making this markets best tablet-netbook ever has been a piece of cake for Archos really. And the other two Atom based netbooks and the CULV laptop that Archos are releasing are also even smaller pieces of cake for them to release. Yet Archos manages to release the best Intel/Microsoft based value propositions with such little effort.

Not riding on the wave of 50 million netbooks sold this year would be a big mistake. Those will be Intel/Microsoft powered until ARM laptops runing Android will take over staring in a few months.

Archos just announced the worlds best netbook as well, Archos 10 Ubuntu comes with a 500GB hard drive, 2GB ram, 6-cell battery for only $25 more than the Windows XP 160GB and 1GB RAM version.