Archos 3 Vision 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Red)

by Archos

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2 x 3.7 x 0.4 inches ; 1.9 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• ASIN: B002GHBW0W
• Item model number: 501339
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The ARCHOS 3 vision media player is a full-featured, affordable media player packed with a bright and sharp 3-inch LCD touchscreen, 8 GB of storage, and an FM transmitter. Just the ticket for making all your photos, music, and videos, truly portable.

Ultra-thin design with a sharp, bright 3-inch LCD touch-screen. Click to enlarge.

Matte red back metal plate for added visual flair.

Browse music by title, album, artist, genre, or your own favorites. Click to enlarge.

Enjoy your videos in landscape. Click to enlarge.

3-Inch LCD Touchscreen
The ARCHOS 3 vision screen is big and bright enough to show off your best photos and videos, but the device will still fit into your pocket. The touchscreen interface boasts a virtual scroll dial that lets you quickly zip through long lists of music files.

Your Music
The ARCHOS 3 vision is perfect for music fans, with up to 14 hours of music playback before recharging and support for MP3, WMA, and WAV formats. The music library shows music by title, album, artist, genre, or your own favorites. With 8 GB of disk capacity to store over 4,000 songs, you'll have no problem saving tons of music and podcasts onto your device. And with the lyrics function, you can actually see song lyrics display right across the screen.

Your Video
ARCHOS has always been the leader in portable video. This device is able to read a number of video file formats meaning that most everything you throw on it will play without conversion--MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, FLV, AVI, RM, and RMVB.

Your Photos
The ARCHOS 3 makes a great little photo wallet. Display them one by one or play as a slide show. For a little more fun, add a soundtrack--your favorite song.

FM Radio
The ARCHOS 3 vision has a built-in FM Radio. Set the radio presets to your favorite stations and your music, news or other programs are just few screen-taps away.

FM Transmitter
With the FM Transmitter you won't need any cables in your car. Just select the frequency you want to transmit, lay your ARCHOS on your dashboard, and it will transmit your music or podcasts to your radio, for enjoyment right through your car's speakers.

Voice Recorder
Need a voice recorder for a classroom lecture or personal notes? The ARCHOS 3 vision has a built-in microphone that will allow you to record audio for hours if needed.

Stopwatch/Calendar
The ARCHOS 3 vision also includes stopwatch and calendar applications to round out the list of functions.

What's in the Box
ARCHOS 3, headphones, USB cable (for charging and file transfer), user manual

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ho-hum, October 9, 2009

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G. VALENTIN "tech geek" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Archos 3 Vision 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Red) (Electronics)

PROS:
Red looks cool.
Sound quality is not the best, above average.
Equalizer.
Light enough to not weigh down shirt pocket.
CONS:
Seems hastily assembled
Sticky touchscreen. Poorly responsive even after many calibration.
Virtual wheel is a good concept but poorly executed.
Who still uses paper decals on mp3's, or any gadgets for that matter, at this day and age?
Crappy buds.
Power/lock slider switch fragile as a loose deciduous tooth.

First of, this is not made to sit among the giants like ZuneHD, iPod Touch 2ndG, Cowon S9, Samsung P2, or Sony Walkman X Series, so i didn't have high expectations when i preordered it last month. After all, the old addage has always been true - that you get what you pay for. However, receiving it 3 days ago and using it since was a major let down in spite of my consciously lowered expectations. The buds went to my drawer of useless cables. Then i find myself at times jabbing the screen with my finger if only to get it to respond. The virtual wheel takes some getting used to, you'll find your screen display seemingly bunjee jumping up and down instead of scrolling smoothly. If you can look past these, then you can have a toy that plays decent above average music.
The price has been dropping on this thing in just a matter of days since it's release. I won't be surprised to see it discounted to $50. Archos should have paid more attention to the quality of the 3 Vision especially now that they are getting more aggressive in the market with their new lines of MID 5's and the 9 that's coing out on the 22nd of this month. In fairness to ARCHOS, they have a commendable tech support staff(i bought a plug-in from them for my 5).
Take it from this old man who likes to buy these toys. There are better players out there.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The good, the bad and the ugly, November 10, 2010

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La "locket_uk" (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Archos 3 Vision 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Red) (Electronics)

OK so for the good bits.
It looks REALLY nice, it is small and light, the screen is pretty good (although the viewing angle could be better) and the sound quality appears to be really good.
The navigation is pretty intuitive there is a button which is basically a `back' key which you use throughout all menus and all other navigation is via the touchscreen! It does take a little getting used to but it isn't as bad as some reviewers have stated and once you calibrate ti for yourself I have found it to be pretty accurate and responsive.
It has all the usual stuff music and video playback, FM radio, sound recorder, Photo album and Files repository but it also has a really gucci FM transmitter which allows you to send your tunes from the Archos wirelessly to a receiver, such as an in-car radio. (I haven't tried this yet but I intend to!)

Now for the bad bits. . .
Personally I think that the file storage system is crap.
I like to have pictures grouped by subject, it won't you have to create folders for the pics. Even then I don't know how the system sorts the pics as it certainly is not numerically or alphabetically within the folders. . . it could be last uploaded pic is the 'newest' so gets put to the top of the list, but that isn't always true so it is anyones guess!

I hate the fact you can only have 1 playlist. If I had known this before hand I probably wouldn't have bought the unit despite its other redeming features. Again you need to put your tracks into folders and use those as playlists but that is a right royal pain in the . . .

Finally although the packaging and advertising says it palys MP4, I have had to convert all the MP4 files I have to AVI to get them to play. another royal pain in the . . .

Over all I think this unit is pretty good if you are happy to just have a bunch of files to play (pics, music, video, whatever) and aren't bothered about how they are stored / sorted. However if you are slightly OCD like me then this probably won't be the MMP for you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Archos 3 vision is junk, December 28, 2010

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cs - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Archos 3 Vision 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Red) (Electronics)

I have had this mp3 player for 29 days and today it won't work. I have had nothing but problems with it since I bought it. Tech support is not helpful and I can only hope that I am able to return it and receive a credit for it.