A product shot appeared a few days ago of the Archos 2 Vision. It looked nice. But the French site ArchosLounge.net recently got some face time with the upcoming PMP and, well, it doesn’t look that great anymore. The original press shot looked slick and smooth, but this hands-on shot makes it looks like a no-name Chinese player. It’s an Archos so it probably runs great, but I hope I’m not the only one disappointed with the design.
But then again, maybe it just doesn’t look that great on camera. Some gadgets and people are like that. I once dated a girl that always looked horrible in pictures. I think it was her dumb smile. Anyway, maybe this PMP looks good enough, but this shot really doesn’t show it. Thankfully the hardware and specs are acceptable.
Click through for more live shots of the Archos 3 Vision, the cute and little Clipper, and the Archos 10s.
What looks great is he price. 2x to 4x cheaper than similar capacity products from Microsoft, Sandisk, Samsung, Sony or Apple.
In fact, the Archos 2 (8GB) is less than $45 on Amazon.com an sometimes sells for near $30 at the cheapest resellers. Sure consider the MSRP for Archos 2 Vision (8GB) might be $59 at launch, yet finding it at below $40 should be possible on the cheapest online resellers.
Now consider ipod nano (8GB) is $133 on Amazon, Sandisk Fuze (8GB) MSRP $99 but available $66 on Amazon, Sony 8GB walkman $88 on Amazon, Samsung YP-S3 $109 on Amazon.