ARCHOS 3 cam Vision is the gorgeous MP3 / MP4 player in the market. This ARCHOS PMP is much more than a conventional PMP or MP3 / MP4 player. What makes 3 cam Vision special is the fact that ARCHOS have packed almost every single thing that one look for in a PMP.
ARCHOS 3 cam Vision features a 3 inch TFT color display screen with a picture resolution of 400 x 200 pixels. Its glossy design and crisp finishing makes it look gorgeous.
Here are the specifications of ARCHOS 3 cam Vision:
- 3 inch TFT display screen
- Built-in Video Camera
- 8 GB Storage Capacity
- FM radio with recording
- Supports major audio, video and other multimedia file formats
- Audio recording
- Battery backup – 14 hours of music playback and 4 hours of video playback
- Measures – 3.82? x 2.05? x 0.35?
- Weighs – 2.26 ounces
This ARCHOS PMP or MP3 / MP4 player does not let you create playlists which can be considered as a backdrop. In the current market situation, price of this ARCHOS PMP makes a huge factor as competition is huge.
ARCHOS 3 cam Vision has got a price tag of $100 which is truly overwhelming. Considering the number and kind of features this ARCHOS MP3 / MP4 player is offering, it truly lives up to its price and its brand, ARCHOS.
The previous reviewers of the Archos 3 Vision and 3 Cam Vision have left out something rather important about the devices: their inability to perform the basic, core function of playing an album of music from start to finish. This is all due to an old nemesis of mine: ID3 tags.
ID3 tags are bits of information that are attached to media files like mp3s. Most importantly, they contain the artist, title and track number of a song. (If you’ve ever entered this information while ripping a CD, you were creating ID3 tags for the songs.) These bits of information are how your computer/mp3 player identifies what you’re listening to.
Keep in mind that it doesn’t matter what you change the file name to. You can change the file name of your favorite mp3 to a random number, but when you play it, your media player will still identify the song exactly as it did before – from the ID3 tags.
The Archos 3 Cam Vision DOES NOT READ TRACK NUMBERS from ID3 tags. This means that instead of your album playing through from first song to last, it will play the tracks in alphabetical order according to their title tag instead.
Which means that unless you’re going to go back and edit the ID3 tags of every song in your entire music library so that the track numbers are PART of the song title ID3 tags (06 – I Love You), you can forget about a sensible listening experience. (I called the company’s tech support line to confirm this was the case, and it is.)
Missing this in every online product review was a long series of inexplicable oversights that should concern us about the people who write such reviews.
Missing it in product DESIGN was just absurd.