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Archos 202 Successor Appropriately Named the 204

By: Grahm Skee on March 7, 2007 10:15 AM

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The 202 is getting a face lift to run with the Archos line-up of X04 portable media players. The player sports a 1.8” 262K-color screen along with a standard feature set including MP3, WAV, WMA, and WMA-DRM music files and JPEG support. Video junkies will be disappointed to find that there is no video support. The player only comes in a 20GB size but offers a slightly above average battery time of 20 hours.

This player seems a bit out of date compared to what else is on the market and the 262K-color screen seems like a waste sans video support. Regardless, we will probably see this hit the stores in the next few months. However, the US may not see it, as word on the street is that it's a European only release.

[Product Sheet (French PDF) | via generationMP3]

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Comments

mountains are hills on March 7, 2007 8:38 PM

whats the point of having 20 gigs of space and 262K colors if you don't have video suport. The rest of the specs seem ok, but if it had video support, it would be more appealing.

fretless on March 12, 2008 4:47 AM

Hungry for an affordable player with plenty of storage I got the 30Gb version of this and am amazed by the superb sound - there is an almost (gasp!) analogue quality to the reproduction, assisted by an excellent user-friendly EQ. Okay, it is a no-frills player and harddisks are being rapidly replaced by higher storage flash players, but this player has a charm that is addictive - certainly if all you really want to do is listen to the music.

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