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Archos' Upgraded AV500 Jukebox Detailed

Posted by simoniker on from the geek-toy-heaven dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a piece on Mobilemag.com, the Archos AV500, newly shown at Cebit 2004 in Germany, will be the all-in-one answer to the clutter of handheld devices - this is a PVP [personal video player] and PDA combo handheld around the size of a Jornada with 20 or 40 gigs storage. Watch movies, read emails, connect your digital camera for backup, the list goes on.." The piece also notes: "Archos also added EPG (Electronic Programming Guide) technology, to allow you to control the AV500 with a remote control as a video player/recorder."

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  1. Re:Obligatory quote by heironymouscoward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's 640k songs, right, like 2TB of music? You can't possibly mean 640k movies, that'd be way too much.

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  2. Bah! by spellraiser · · Score: 2, Funny

    No keyboard -> No programming -> No fun

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  3. Hello? No Ansible? by hoggoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without a standards based ansible this device is worthless to me. Try again Archos - I only want to carry ONE device.

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  4. What you say? by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny
    What's the world coming to? Why can't we simply limit ourselves to portable music? Must we *always* have 2.9 billion forms of electronic media at our fingertips in the ever rare chance that our natural surroundings ever become boring?

    This thing is like a PDA with a Remote Control . If that ain't progress, brother, I don't know what is!

    ...now if it only had a few blades and bottle opener...

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  5. Re:What's going on here? by pragma_x · · Score: 5, Funny
    in the ever rare chance that our natural surroundings ever become boring?
    You've never lived in Ohio, have you?

  6. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't waste your time hanging around me, I'll wear you out by my use of non-passive activities.

    Yeah, I don't think any of us can keep up with your busy schedule of posting drivel to slashdot. It must be really wearing you out.

  7. Re:So by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Funny
    At Duke they had a "come as something starting with S" party. I had an outfit covered with slogans like "Liffe Suks" and "Probly Rong".

    I was a Cynical Misspeller.

    Heh. This is the only time I could ever recount that story on /., so I might as well.

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