I had my HP Mini 110 Notebook for a few months and it was pretty nice to take on my trip to Dubai since it was so small. Unfortunately it’s usefulness pretty much ended there since I mostly use my Macbook Pro for everything. What I needed was a portable media device that was small enough to hold in one hand and at least do a decent job of surfing the internet. The netbook in a practical sense can do most of the basic functions of a notebook, and as Steve Jobs once said, it doesn’t do any of  those well. Watching HD videos on a netbook was very unsatisfactory especially in HD and it kills the experience. Then I stumbled on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet while walking around Best Buy so I bought it out of curiosity and have been very happy with it since.

The Archos Internet Tablet is an Android powered, feature packed portable media player that plays just about every popular multimedia format from AVIs (including Divx and Xvid), MPEG2/4, WMV, MKV, H.264, MP3, AAC, WMA, etc… and does so exceptionally WELL. In fact, it can manage HD media without any stuttering. There’s also a built in FM tuner and you can buy a DVR for this if you want to record and schedule your TV shows by connecting to your cable box with component or HDMI cable. There are so many features to list and so many things you can do on the device since it’s an Android player so I’m going to mainly focus on how well it does in real world every day use.


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