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| Value for Money | 7.2/10  |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 6/10 |
Full review by
drtone
on 30th May 2007
User Rating : 2
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Good Points: Small
Bad Points: Navigation fiddly Battery life not what is stated Sound quality not the best
General comments: I bought an iPod for my wife three months before I first bought this player in Jan 2006. I bought the Archos because the iTunes programme was rubbish and I preferred to be able to drag and drop music to my MP3 player.
2 months later the hard drive died. I got a replacement from the internet seller I bought it from (hitech2go). Just over a year later the replacement has died (warranty is useless).
My wife still has her iPod and it is going strong.
I supported Archos as a competitor to iPod but I will certainly be buying another brand of product when I replace my mp3 player... at the moment I am singing to myself.
I am awaiting the 16 GB flash players to be released at the end of the year and will be going for one with a replaceable battery.
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Review by
george0307
on 27th Jul 2006
User Rating : 0
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Archos' warranty is worthless. I have had the Archos Gmini XS 200 MP3 player for three months before it started having power problems. I sent the unit back to Archos under warranty. They wrote back saying the unit had been dropped and the hard disk had to be repaired. Not covered under warranty - cost £130. I'll put the money towards a Creative. Incidentally, the unit had not been dropped.
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Review by
adamba
on 12th Feb 2006
User Rating : 9
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This Archos Gmini XS 200 is the 1st mp3 player I purchased and I spent a lot of time researching them. The research paid off because this player is great.
I am more than happy with my Archos, it does everything i need. The sound quality is good and the volume is loud. The menu is easy to use once you are used to the joystick.
It holds plenty of files and the organisation is simple. The best thing is that it syncs directly with media player and that i can also transfer other file types ...
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Review by
RonWeil1964
on 26th Oct 2005
User Rating : 1
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When I first purchased the Archos Gmini XS 200 almost 12 months ago, it seemed ideal. Over this time I have become accustomed to the menu layout but recently have become very frustrated. The hard drive has decided to not work from time to time, tracks are shown incorrectly.
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Review by
Clemech
on 15th Sep 2005
User Rating : 5
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The menu system on the Archos Gmini XS 200 MP3 player is a bit cumbersome (too many layers to get through to update the library and switch to random play).
The sound quality with WMAs 192kbs is remarkable, but see error in bad points!
Clemech's full review | 155 words
Review by
jslsys
on 4th Sep 2005
User Rating : 9
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What a fantastic little player the Archos Gmini XS 200 MP3 Player is. I was fed up of needing special software to download music to my player (I had an old creative labs player). What I wanted was a machine that I could transfer files with windows, whether they be music or not, in the same way. That's just how it works! You plug in, and the XS200 appears as a removable disk, drag and drop files and folders, and your done.
The player can build its own database of any music you download fro ...
jslsys's full review | 297 words
Review by
Michael Collis
on 8th May 2005
User Rating : 9
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I bought the Archos Gmini XS 200 a couple of weeks ago and (after upgrading my usb host) have been copying over my cds and mp3 files non-stop.
The compatibility with iTunes, windows media player etc, leaves a lot to be desired, but after a little bit of messing around I managed to figure out the best and quickest way of transferring files over (drag and drop through windows).
The headphones are a bit shoddy but I can live with them until I've managed to save enough pennies to upgrade to so ...
Michael Collis's full review | 153 words
Review by
headcase1972
on 5th May 2005
User Rating : 2
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I purchased this Archos Gmini XS 200 to be the main store for my CD library, and as such it does this in a fashion. I am VERY disappointed that it has no drivers for ITunes (PC), Win Media Player 7 or even MusicMatch Jukebox. This makes synchronising a pain, with Windows "drag and drop" the only method of administering files. I feel that I could have just bought a FlashDrive or other external HDD - it spoils the whole product, and whilst Archos promised me in January that they were "working on i ...
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Review by
formulaone
on 9th Apr 2005
User Rating : 9
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I bought the Archos Gmini XS 200 just after Christmas as my previous one kept crashing. I was looking for something very affordable small and reliable with a large amount of memory space on the hard-drive. I was going to purchase the iPod Mini but they were too popular. I've never heard of the manufacturer before but I can say they are a very creative and intelligent putting the customers needs first. The large screen takes up most of the space of the MP3 player which allows for easy understandi ...
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Review by
billbilby
on 8th Jan 2005
User Rating : 9
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Although I've only had the Archos Gmini XS 200 for just over 1 week, I've been using it constantly, working out every single feature of it and thinking over the good and bad points of this. I had been wanting to purchase a large hard-drive MP3 player for a while, after owning one of the first ever ones (32meg and very expensive), and a CD based one. I decided over this one for three main reasons: The price, the size, and the reviews. Firstly onto the size.
This thing really is small, a lot sm ...
billbilby's full review | 560 words
Review by
Audiophreak
expert review 
on 29th Dec 2004
User Rating : 9
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Although having only bought this today, I am quite fond of it.
When I was going to the store to purchase a 4th gen iPod (Had two more, I have several mp3 players) I saw this, and noticing the price was better decided upon buying it (Note: The price difference may not be so obvious outside of Canada)
Based on first glance, this is a rather attractive mp3 player.
It's capacity is 20gig, yet it looks more like a 512mb player (going by physical dimensions). The size of this gadget is remarkable ...
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Review by
Robert Dowell
expert review
on 24th Nov 2004
User Rating : 8
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I have been wanting to get hold of an MP3 player for some time but I was always concerned with the lack of memory that these devices provided.
It all started after the popularity of MP3's fired the imagination of the public.
Diamond Multimedia released the controversial RIO and all hell was let loose as the music industry tried to contain the inevitable slide towards a more free music society. As with IBM and the PC, Apple released the sexy iPod and the scene was set for something of a ...
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