Try as they may fanboy sites, and speculation, the majority of fans seeking to look into the future iPod functionality will have to wait one Steve Jobs speech. But we only hope that the unheralded designers of Archos. Years before Apple developed a video touch screen functionality, or Wi-Fi for its iPod players, Archos has been feeding these functions for the early adopters.
As lovers of the newest on-go interfaces, we are big fans of Archos' big screen, Wi-Fi allows media players. They can be too big for the morning jog, but their massive touchscreens allows them to work as Web tablets, too .
New Archos 705 Mobile DVR improves upon this pattern in several directions. Like some early models of the company that you can connect the device to a TV catch up later on the road (consider that the Slingbox and iTunes movie rentals). No real progress is a tiny remote control. It not only allows you to scroll through menus and manage DVR functionality, but it is even Treo size QWERTY keyboard (we have great fans of similar autonomous devices). Before the mini-remote, a light for viewing on the Archos players were tiring (try entering a long e-mail using the virtual keyboard). Now the gap between portable media players and the ultra-mobile PCs dropped even further - and, who knows, one iPod keyboard may not be that significant part of a long shot after all .... -- Seth Porges
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