Archos 5 Internet tablet with Android user reviews (32GB)

Pros Screen Quality
Battery Life
USB Transfer Speeds
HD Video Playback

Cons Resistive Touch Screen
Speaker Quality
Wi-Fi Speed
RAM
Powers off when playing music on battery

Summary nice device but powers off when you lock it when listening to any music app

Pros Android operating system which is hackable to be updated and simple easy operation and the most versatile devise around. Drop into the dock and record TV- use as computer on TV, excellent GPS in my car, stream music to my radio....shall I go on?

Cons Would like Archos to support the devise. I would like Android Froyo OS (2.2).

Summary The market is being flooded with small tablets and this unit can be customized very easily to do anything you want it to do. Review all the accessories that Amazon sells for this unit and you will begin to see the versatility. I'am delighted with the devise and amazed by what it will do. Too bad that Archos doesn't support the devise.

Pros Flexible platform with great video support, MP3 library, excellent GPS (with turn-by-turn navigation), and FM radio.
Long, long batery life
With small hack, lots of applications
Great size for kids to watch movies and play games in car

Cons Have to pay (with very buggy credit card application--had to call customer support many times to actually purchate) extra for everything! GPS navigation = $39, codes for non-FOSS video/audio = $39, HDMI out = $69.

Summary This is an excellent platform for entertainment, reference, eBooks, and games.
I used this as my sole PC for about 2 weeks. While it was painful (screen is resistive) at times, the browser (I also downloaded Opera), email (K9), and included MS Office compatable suite kept me going, as long as I was in range of WiFi.

Stability of applications is pretty good.

The GPS, which does NOT use Google maps, is quite good, and the full map database lives on the device. Very helpful when driving out of cell range areas, where Google Maps just cannot handle it.

Kindle is probably the application I use the most. It is a very nice size to read on the subway.

You do need to use ASTRO to 'backup' the Android market from a cell phone w/ Android 1.6. This will let you install it on the Archos 5. You cannot use Archos's crappy market afterwards, but who cares?

My kids love the video playback and the games which use the accelerometer (e.g. Paper Airplanes).

This is an affordable, flexible device for entertainment, general PC tasks (limited by use of virtual keyboard--a bluetooth keyboard would have made this better), web browsing, email, and even research (e.g. EverNote runs fine on it).

Pros Fast Web browsing, plays a lot of differ video codecs. Android is great.

Cons Software that monitors the battery needs tweaking, battery last longer than what the software indicates.

Summary Great and fast web browsing and video player.