Amazon.com Product Review
ARCHOS' 15 vision is an incredibly light and thin media player, ready for 4GB of your digital media--music, videos, and photos. With a wealth of additional features such as an FM radio, voice recorder, and FM transmitter, it's a solid choice for enjoying and sharing a handful of your favorite media.
An incredibly light and thin media player, ready for 4GB of your digital media. Click to enlarge. |
Ultra-portable player is just 6 mm (1/4") thick and weighs 18 grams (0.6 ounces). |
Responsive touch-sensitive controls for easy navigation. |
Ultra-Slim, Ultra-Portable As thin as a CompactFlash card (or a cracker, for those who prefer a non-tech comparison), the ARCHOS 15 vision is just 6 mm (1/4") thick and weighs 18 grams (0.6 ounces). Throw it in your shirt or pants pocket and you'll barely know it's there.
Despite its size, ARCHOS fit in a 1.5-inch TFT color screen--just the right size for browsing through your music files, viewing a few pictures, or sharing some short videos with your friends.
Innovative Touch Keys and Intuitive Interface The ARCHOS 15 vision is equipped with a perfectly flat, touch-sensitive control surface. With one finger, you can navigate smoothly and rapidly through menus and files to easily access your music, photos, or video content.
Enjoy Your Music The ARCHOS 15 vision plays standard music file formats such as MP3, WMA (none protected), and WAV files, as well as the more exotic FLAC and APE formats. With a capacity of 4GB, you can store up to 2,000 songs. Browse your music by title, artist or album, or create your own favorites list to play at any time.
And syncing is a breeze--just connect it to your computer (PC, Mac or Linux) and copy/paste or drag-and-drop your favorite songs to the "Music" folder.
FM Radio Playback/Recording If you're tired of your own music files, or just want to get caught up on the news, you can always listen to the FM radio. Quickly scan stations, or preset your favorites.
Additionally, you can record whatever's playing and save it as a music file for later playback or transfer to another device.
Watch a Little Video Whether you're a fan of music videos or just can't stop watching "keyboard cat," put a few vids on the ARCHOS for sharing them with your friends. Conversion software is included for the supported MPEG-4 AVI format.
View Photos It's always nice to have your photos with you for sharing. Put your favorite JPEG or BMP formatted photos on the ARCHOS to show pictures of the kids, friends, your latest trip, or anything else. You can view photos one by one, or play a slide show.
Record Your Memos If you need to remember something and you don't have a piece of paper to note it down on, why not just record your voice? The built-in microphone will record your voice memos or any idea that you can't get down on paper.
What's in the Box ARCHOS 15 vision Player, USB Cable Mini B/A, Earphones, User Guide
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(27 customer reviews) 27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Great little Player,
August 6, 2010 Jules McVernon (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Archos Vision 15 4 GB MP3 Player with 1.5-Inch Screen (Black) (Electronics)
I own an Archos 5 and I was very satisfied with the quality of the player, so I picked up one of these as a backup. So far it is a great little unit. It is extremely small and portable, very light feel in the hand. The controls are easier to use than I thought they would be. Very responsive and intuitive. The syncing worked really well as it does with my other Archos. The one drawback is the quality of the screen. It is very small, and the resolution is poor. Pictures are hard to see and somewhat slow to load. It plays videos, but I couldn't imagine watching a movie on this and enjoying it. If you are looking to watch movies, this is not the player for you. If you are looking for a small and affordable MP3 player with and FM radio, this is a great choice.
21 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Well, what do you expect with a $40 mp3 player...,
July 30, 2010 Steve Johnson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Archos Vision 15 4 GB MP3 Player with 1.5-Inch Screen (Black) (Electronics)
I purchased this player that I might have something to listen to while I work and it's...well, it's alright in some ways I guess. I like the radio feature and the support of FLAC audio format. I haven't really used the video or photo capabilities (the screen is only 1.5 inches), so I've got nothing to say in favor of or against them.
But there is one major drawback that really makes me angry, considering that this product is billed primarily as an mp3-player, and it is something everyone should know about this product before buying it: during playback the player cuts the first 3-6 seconds of the majority of the mp3 files I have transfered to it. This is not the result of faulty file transfer as far as I can tell. I've tried to transfer the files to the player using both Windows and Linux, but got the same results. I tried transferring each mp3 file individually rather than copying whole albums. Same problem. I even tried inserting 3 seconds of silence at the beginning of...Read more
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Love it,
November 28, 2010 Brian Beno - See all my reviews
This review is from: Archos Vision 15 4 GB MP3 Player with 1.5-Inch Screen (Black) (Electronics)
I bought this little baby from the Archos site with a $10 off code.
I have had it for about 2 weeks and I am loving it. The only problem I have with it was, as mentioned in a previous review, it cuts off the first few seconds. The problem here is the firmware. When the original Archos 2 was released some people had the same problem while others didn't. The people who did not appeared to have had newer firmware than the other. Since there is a update option I am sure Archos could release a fix, but the tend to not give much attention to their less popular releases.
Overall it is a nice player, the only other problem is that it can be hard to control in the dark, it could have used back-lit buttons, but it is just a minor thing.
