Archos 70 - 250 GB Internet Tablet (Black)

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Product Feature

• Android 2.2, ARM Cortex-A8 1 GHz
• 8 GB integrated
• 7" TFT - Multi-Touch 800 x 480
• WiFi 802.11b/g/n, front facing camera
• 10.6 oz
• 250 GB hard drive capacity for up to 300 movies, 2.5 million photos, or 145,000 songs
• Enjoy about 36 hours of audio, 7 hours of video, or 10 hours Web browsing on a single charge
• One-year limited warranty
• Seven-inch, 16-million-color capacitive multitouch LCD with 800 x 480 WVGA pixel resolution
• Support for MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, and AC3 audio formats; MPEG-4, H.264, WMV9/VC1, Motion JPEG, and MPEG-2 video codecs

Product Description

Redefine the way you'll be browsing the web and enjoying HD multimedia with your ARCHOS 70 internet tablet. At home and on the go, you will always have a good reason to use and show this beautiful “window to another world� �. With the latest version of Android, enjoy fast web surfing and all your favorite applications, including games with 3D graphic acceleration (rendered with its 3D hardware accelerator) or a soothing eBook viewer.All the functions of a computer: your apps, the Internet, video chat, your photos, music and videos (up to 250GB* of storage7) actually fit inside your bag or your briefcase.

Archos 70 - 250 GB Internet Tablet (Black) Review

I am writing this review because I don't want future Archos 70 owners to experience what I went through. I have had it for a week now and have contemplated throwing it down a deep ravine. Finally, thank God, I was able to get it to work. Here's how:

1. Firmware must be updated to latest version - my Archos would connect and disconnect with the internet continuously. I thought it was because of a weak signal, but it is a firmware problem. How can you update the firmware when you can't download it online because your Archos wifi does not work? In the Archos website, they have instructions on what to do using your desktop/laptop.

a. Download the latest firmware into your desktop/laptop.

b. Connect the Archos 70 to your desktop/laptop using the USB to micro-USB cord supplied. The Archos 70 will then ask you if you want to mount it to your desktop/laptop. Say yes.

c. Open My Computer on your desktop/laptop. It should recognize the Archos as an additional hard drive.

d. Copy the firmware you just downloaded on the desktop/laptop by pasting it on top of the Archos icon on the desktop/laptop. It will then load onto the Archos. When it is done, un-mount it on the Archos 70 then pull out the cord.

e. It will then ask you to plug the Archos 70 into the wall. It will do some other stuff and then you are done.

By the way, it is helpful to look at the "More Info" section of the download webpage. It shows you all the different versions of the firmware, when they were "issued" and what improvements they are supposed to make. This way, you can see how old your firmware is and what it is supposed to do.

2. Upload Android Market and Flash Player - the pictures won't come up on the websites I went to. Buttons would be missing. Flash is not on the Appslib on the Archos 70 because Archos is not yet certified by Adobe to have Flash Player.

I found the solution on YouTube. See link below.

You have to follow the steps exactly. Your Android should be at least 2.2 Froyo. Anything older and you have to install Android 2.2 Froyo on your machine, which is a very complicated process.

If your Archos is already on Android 2.2 Froyo, this is what you have to do.

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I would like to thank the person who posted this on YouTube. Here are his steps:

a. Go to Settings - Repair & Formatting

b. Reset Android - ok

c. Reboot - do not shut off Archos and then turn on. You must pick the "reboot" option

d. Startup Wizard comes up - go through the whole process, including connecting with your wifi.

e. Reboot - same as c.

f. Go to Appslib icon on home page

g. Type "arctools" (with no quotation marks) and install

h. Open Arctools

i. Click on "Default Apps & Market b 2.2.7"

j. Click on "Install apps"

k. Reboot - same as above

l. Market app icon should be on your home page, click on it and create your new Google account if you don't have one;

m. Search for Adobe Flash 10.1, download and install

3. Go into Browser App

a. click on Options "button" on right side on screen (four white lines),

b. pick "More", "Settings" and check "Load Pictures".

I don't know why it defaults to "no" which is really stupid.

4. By the way, if you download Flash from another source into your desktop/laptop and are thinking of copying it into your Archos, you need to do a special step. After your download Flash onto your desktop/laptop, make a copy of it but change the extension from .zip to .apk on the copy. You can then mount your Archos like before and paste the copy like normal. Be sure to paste it into the Files - Downloaded area or else you cannot install it into the Archos. Un-mount, and then touch the Flash file you just pasted into the Archos and it should start to install. If you don't change the extension from .zip to .apk, it will just say "cannot open file" and you can't do anything.

This caused me a lot of frustration.

5. One more thing. If after all this, you still cannot listen to stuff on the website, contact the website and ask how you can listen on an Android device (tell them which version). They might direct you to another website that carries their "station" for Android users.

After all this suffering, I love my Archos 70!!

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