Title: New product that still needs a lot of work
Review: First off, the battery life is horrible... 3-4 hours on a charge. Second, it tends to lock up from time to time, and the only way to get it back to normal is to pop the battery hatch... but if you do that or run the batteries down all the way, it loses all of the radio station presets you've stored. In addition, it only properly recognizes 128 kbps MP3s... if they are recorded at any other bit rate, it can still play them, but the info (length timeplayed, time remaining, etc.) is all wrong. It also takes some learning, as the user guide does not match the product... for example, to make a new directory or delete a file, you have to do an entirely different set of actions than the instruction manual states.This has the potential to be a good product, if Archos fixes a lot of these problems. Most of them can (and probably will) be fixed via firmware updates. But the battery life is a major issue with this player.
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