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Hit 7 - Archos GPS In-Car Holder for 605 Wi-Fi (Holder Only)
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List Price: $168.98
Our Price: $94.92
Your Save: $ 74.06 ( 44% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Archos
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Archos
EAN: 0690590510920
Feature: Turns your Archos 605 Wi-Fi personal media player into a full-fledged GPS navigation system; Archos 605 purchased separately
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Archos
Manufacturer: Archos
Model: 501092
Publisher: Archos
Studio: Archos
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Features
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Turns your Archos 605 Wi-Fi personal media player into a full-fledged GPS navigation system; Archos 605 purchased separately
Connects to the car windshield and stereo system, creating a full voice and video navigation system
Audio line out will connect to an FM transmitter, allowing you to broadcast the sound through the speaker of your car radio
Set up the holder on any flat surface with the car mount suction cup
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Editorial Reviews:
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The new ARCHOS GPS In-Car Holder turns the award-winning 605 WiFi portable media player (PMP) into a full-fledged portable navigation system. With more than 50 times the hard drive size, twice the screen resolution, and similar pricing as stand-alone GPS navigation products, the ARCHOS 605 GPS is the ultimate navigation and entertainment device. The ARCHOS 605 WiFi snaps easily into the GPS In-Car Holder, which is connected to the car windshield and stereo system, creating a full voice and video navigation system. Unlike GPS-only devices, consumers can easily navigate their way on the clearest, sharpest 4.3" screen, and then watch favorite videos or recorded TV shows, listen to music and view photo slideshows once they arrive. Additionally
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Map code did not work
Comment: Map code did not work and item returned to seller. Archos was not able to find a solution on the map code problem after multiple phone calls to their support giving them all information supplied with the kit.
Unit has not been used because of that.
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Summary: Maybe worth it if you don't already have GPS, otherwise...
Comment: 1. Map code is wrong. Customer support is clueless. Had to go online to find the right code. Took a week to get software working.
2. Can't listen to MP3s while in Navigation mode. Useless for long trips.
3. Cannot manipulate GPS functions while unit is not attached to holder.
4. Cannot suppress audio on unit even when an external audio cable is plugged into the holder. You have to plug audio cable into the Archos unit itself to shut up its (lousy) speaker.
5. Cannot output video via holder's aux port (to a car's headrest monitor, for example)
The holder itself is a pretty good mount though (but too expensive just for that function).
Bottom line, we're returning this thing and just buy a car mount from Arkon. We'll stick with Garmin for our GPS needs.
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Summary: Bad Design-Lousy Packaging-
Comment: - The GPS came with a mapcode that can not be used. If you call customer number support.
- The customer suport have no idea what is she doing with repeating telling me that the map code I have is wrong, it should have no symbol. The only map code I ever have is what ever printed on the disc, and yes the disc as the sleeve has nothing written on it.
- Once you got everything installed, the GPS heated the archos so much that we took it off.
and I got to update this review as the design is very lousy. The speaker keep going on as mention above, even you have audio output to the car speaker.
Now, we can not even use it as the Archos holder.
We are returning this product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor route calculation
Comment: Starting with the positives:
1. Nice display on 605 wifi
2. Holder works well
Negatives (*and these may possibly all be resolved with software updates):
1. Poor route calculation. Some suggested turns make no sense (e.g., turning off a street, adding distance on a different street, only to come back to the original street)
2. Takes a long time to launch GPS program
3. Difficult to navigate the menus
4. When using POI's (points of interest), cannot check the location of POI's with the same name before calculating a route (e.g., multiple Home Depot locations -- Which town is being targeted for the one that is selected?)
5. Cannot see the distance to a POI before calculating a route
6. Difficult to edit a via
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another fantastic addition to a device already abundant in features
Comment: This Archos GPS car dock is actually meant to be compatible with future models in addition ot the 605, and includes grips for the upcoming models. It does a great job of adding thorough GPS functionality to the Archos 605. Installing the GPS software from the installation DVD onto the 605 is easy. You can also get traffic signal camera locations from an update on the Archos website. This GPS also incorporates real-time traffic into it's routing if you use the included TMC antenna and you get that info broadcast in your area. It has a built-in speaker so it doesn't rely on the 605s tiny speaker, but you can also use the line-out to your car stereo. It has all the features you'd expect from a standalone GPS. I commend Archos for continuing to add value to its products instead abandoning them for the new models -- the 605 is alread a DVR, a great media player, and a web browser. If you're thinking about getting a 605, keep in mind there's also a version already bundled with the GPS car dock.
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