Could it be that Archos is going to release some products that aren’t ugly? We’re already pretty big fans of the work they do, but it’s been hard to press the recommendations to people who flinch at their knobby designs. These three upcoming products in this roundup, however, look slick—and they have a lot of function. The Archos AV402 [left] is a case update to the AV400 series, which is one of the (if not the) best portable video players around. GenerationMP3 is reporting it’s on sale in the US already, but that’s not the case (the 400 series certainly is, but not the AV402).
The AV700 is Archos’s first move into the large-format PVP space, with a 7-inch screen and a 60GB hard drive. Archos will be adding satellite and DVB tuners in a future model that will ship later in the year. Lastly, the Gmini XS 100 is a 20GB player with a color screen and the typical Archos ‘do anything’ philosophy, so it’ll be able to handle video and audio in a variety of flavors just fine. Update: Someone wrote in to not that the XS 100 is probably not a 20GB player, which makes sense, considering its (perceived) size. It looks like it’s more like 3GB.
Archos of return with the AV700 and Gmini XS 100! (Machine translated) [GenerationMP3/Google]
