Archos 500853 104 4GB MP3 and WMA Digital Music Player and Photo Viewer (Pink)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 1 x 2 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000F5K7RG
• Item model number: 500853
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #68,154 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 1, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With the Archos 500853 104 4GB MP3 and WMA Digital Music Player and Photo Viewer (Pink), you can take your best music and pictures with you wherever you go. The perfect companion for everything from long trips to short bus rides, from going to parties to just hanging out around the house, the Archos 104 lets you not only take your favorite moments with you, but helps you make new favorite moments wherever you happen to be.

Of course, the main purpose of the Archos 104 is to play music. Because it has a real hard disk inside of it with four gigabytes of memory, you can store up to 2,000 songs in WMA format at 64kbps, or up to 1,000 songs in higher quality MP3 format at 128kbps. This unit comes able to play not just MP3 and WMA files, but protected WMA files, and even uncompressed WAV files at full CD quality. You can even play iTunes on your Archos 104 by downloading the proper update from the Archos website, and as new audio formats are created, future updates will also be made available on the manufacturer's website so your Archos will continue to support the newest and best audio formats. Using a standard audio cable, you can also play your music through a home entertainment system, allowing you to bring your entire CD collection with you anywhere, and play it over anyone's sound system.

Putting music on your Archos 104 is as easy as dragging and dropping any of your unprotected music files. For protected, purchased music from PlaysForSure web sites, it's as easy as clicking the Sync button in Windows Media Player. With its USB 2.0 high speed port, transfers are finished before you know it, and the internal battery gets recharged at the same time. The Archos 104 is also ID3 compatible, meaning that the ARCLibrary will sort your music so that you can listen to it by artist, album, title, year, or genre, or just click on shuffle and listen to your music at random. The ID3 tagging also lets you view the CD jacket cover for any of your music while you are listening to it.

With your Archos 104 you can also store and view up to 40,000 photos in JPEG2 or VGA format on the built-in, 1.5-inch OLED color display screen. The use of OLED (organic liquid-crystal display) technology with its smaller carbon-based molecules, creates a screen that is brighter, thinner, lighter, and faster than normal LCD displays, providing you with not only a smaller player, but a screen that is more easily viewed in bright lighting conditions, and at greater angles. All you need to do is transfer pictures from your computer to your Archos 104, and you'll be able to easily look at them in high quality, wherever you are.

Finally, you can always use the Archos 104 as a portable hard drive to carry important files with you. You can even use the Archos' intuitive double-browser to easily organize, rename, create, copy, move, and delete files and folders, as well as creating your own playlists from the music you already have stored. You can also autosync with Windows Media Player 10 to quickly and easily transfer your songs and your playlists from your PC.

The Archos 104 has a built-in line-out jack as well as its stereo analog earphone output. This unit is not only has a USB 2.0 port, but is backwards compatible with USB 1.1 as well, and can be used with either a PC or a Mac. The built-in rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery provides you with up to 13 hours of music playback or picture viewing, and is not only recharged via the USB 2.0 connection, but can be charged via an optional power charger as well. Firmware updates can be downloaded from www.archos.com so your Archos is always up to date and running at its best. This unit comes in a sexy pink color, and is eminently portable, weighing only 2.8 ounces, and measuring approximately 1.7 x 3.6 x 0.5 inches (W x H x D).

What's in the Box
Archos 104 digital music player, 1 x USB 2.0 cable, 1 x pair of stereo headphones, a quick-start guide (with a full user's manual preloaded on the 104's hard drive, and available for download as a PDF to your PC), and a neck strap.

Product Description

ARCHOS presents the new ARCHOS 104, a miniature 4GB MP3 player features a 1.5" color screen and JPEG photo viewer. With ARCHOS 104 you can store up to 1,000 songs or 40,000 photos in the palm of your hand.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Value for the price! Chose it over Nano, January 9, 2007

By	Gregory Annoni - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this product for my 6 year old daughter for xmas. After doing research on it, and the nano...i found that it gave me more drivespace, and had the same features as the 2gb nano for less. It is a bit slow in searching from song to song and will sometimes freeze up if you don't wait until the blue light stops flashing but for what you pay...it is not that big of a deal. the other nice thing was that i could choose a color where the nano only gave me silver. it is also Mac compatible and easy to use. All i did was drop and drag songs and pics.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teen Loves It., August 30, 2007

By	S. Thompson (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

Christmas gift that is still being used 9 months later, almost unheard of! She loves it. Doesn't say IPOD, so not so much of a risk of theft. Easy to use, even for my technologically challenged child. Will buy more, probably, for younger set...

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Archos MP3 player, January 19, 2007

By	Sheila Williams (Tampa, Fl) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The product is great, my daughter loves it! The mail order service was quick And packaged well.