Archos 604 portable media player with Wi-Fi

Personal video players
Share


Archos is steadily building a name for itself, adding some interesting features to an ever-growing range of portable media players, including the newly launched Archos 604 WiFi, which, as the name suggests, has wireless capabilities.

What the Wi-Fi adds to the media player is web surfing (using the Opera browser), email, file transfers and accessing content via a network. Future firmware upgrades will feature SHOUTcast Internet radio support, an integrated ARCHOS Podcatcher to automatically capture audio and video podcasts without using a computer, the possibility to download content from popular music and video on-line stores directly to the device and TV viewing.

The player itself features a 30GB hard drive and 4.3-inch colour touch screen LCD, along with an optional DVR Station accessory that turns the 604 WiFi into a portable Digital Video Recorder (DVR). It reads all standard video formats in full DVD resolution, records directly from TV in high-quality MPEG-4 with the DVR Station and works as a photo viewer and music player too.

Expect it in stores from November, with the added functionality promised before Christmas. No price as yet.

Archos website

Dave Walker
For latest tech stories go to TechDigest.tv