Archos 3 Vision 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Red)

• 8 GB capacity for up to 4000 songs
• 14 hours of audio or 4 hours of video on a single charge
• 3-inch LCD touchscreen display with 400 x 240 pixel resolution
• Supports MP3, WMA, and WAV audio formats; MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, FLV, AVI, RM
• One-year limited warranty

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.

Buy Archos 3 Vision 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Red) Now

I thought that it was a pretty good buy. It was a replacement for my old MP3 player which I'd had for almost 3 years and it was starting to show it's age. I bought in June before a trip to California and for the most part it worked great!

Pros: It works VERY well. The video playback is AMAZING and it holds your place in the video so if you turn it off you can go back to where you left off. The music quality is good, too. I didn't really use the radio or microphone but I'm sure they were great. It's pretty sturdy as well. I dropped it a few times and it held on. It's very slim and fits easily into pockets. But beware it's also slippery and there is no place to buy cases for it.

Cons: You can't turn the volume all the way down to the lowest it can go, otherwise you won't hear anything. Also the touch screen gets really dirty because you have to use your thumb to scroll and if you're at the top you can't keep turning one way to get to the bottom and if you're at the bottom you can't keep scrolling to get to the top. It also doesn't alphabetize. It synchs them like they're saved in your files. It's difficult to find stuff. Oh, and the time LOVES to reset itself. It's on a 24 hour clock not a 12 hour. Fail battery life for videos.

My biggest complaint about this, despite all it's wonderfulness, is that after two and a half months the volume got screwy. I would put headphones in and only one side would work. One headphone was completely void of any sound at all. And I tried with multiple pair of headphones. Now I just use it to listen to music before I go to sleep.

Overall this is actually a pretty great product. I gave it a low rating because of all the cons but if you're curious, buy it. It's worth the price you pay (for the most part.)

Read Best Reviews of Archos 3 Vision 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Red) Here

I was at first a little scared due to the reviews about this player, but after getting it I knew they were wrong. The touch screen at first was a little of but I found the calibration folder and got it working. The FM transmiter is a little scratchy but everythig else works. I even tried to scratch the bottom part of the screen, no dammage was done. Busy trying to find a software to copy all my movies.

Want Archos 3 Vision 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Red) Discount?

This was the second Archos 3 I had ordered--the first one had extensive Newton Rings (the glass was warped and made the screen look like an oil slick), right out of the box. So the first one was sent back, and this second product arrived with only minor Newton Rings on the screen, so I just stuck on a screen protector and kept using it--as I understand it, this is a common problem with touch screens and it was minor enough not to interfere with video watching. After about two weeks the screen started giving completely random responses...the back button would adjust the volume, the volume wheel would skip tracks or power down, etc. Returned under warranty for full refund, looking at the Sony Walkman mp3/mp4 players.

I bought this for my daughter as a present around 3 months ago. It has already started to flake out. Granted, she is pretty damned hard on her mp3 players, but that is just ridiculous. The Creative Zen players I have bought her in the past have lasted much longer and I have had good luck with them myself.

If that isn't bad enough (and it should be), the interface, while sleek and "modern" looking, is very hard to work with while doing the kind of things that people tend to do while using mp3 players; things like jogging or working out at the gym. More ease-of-use, less style please.