Archos Pocket Media Assistant PMA400

[James Fee]

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/495/archos_pocket_media

"The PMA400 continues the ARCHOS tradition of letting consumers record video directly from a TV, VCR, cable box or satellite receiver, schedule recordings, record and play music, view photos and play games in multiple ways. It also features several ways to connect to the Internet—wirelessly or via Ethernet—personal information manager applications, an LCD touch screen for fast and easy navigation, a 30 gigabyte Hitachi hard drive, and the ability to act as a USB Host for attaching other mass storage peripherals, such as digital cameras, keyboards, hard drives and other portable devices."



Even though this is a Linux based PMP, it does support DRM WMA files. I'm not sure why they just don't use Microsoft's solution, but given all that this PMP can do, I'd say it's leaped to the top of the heap.

[James Fee]

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/495/archos_pocket_media

"The PMA400 continues the ARCHOS tradition of letting consumers record video directly from a TV, VCR, cable box or satellite receiver, schedule recordings, record and play music, view photos and play games in multiple ways. It also features several ways to connect to the Internet—wirelessly or via Ethernet—personal information manager applications, an LCD touch screen for fast and easy navigation, a 30 gigabyte Hitachi hard drive, and the ability to act as a USB Host for attaching other mass storage peripherals, such as digital cameras, keyboards, hard drives and other portable devices."



Even though this is a Linux based PMP, it does support DRM WMA files. I'm not sure why they just don't use Microsoft's solution, but given all that this PMP can do, I'd say it's leaped to the top of the heap.

[djh]

Looks like it's Qtopia based. If my Zaurus apps would run on it, I could be tempted by this. It would need better handwriting recognition than is normally included in Qtopia since there is no keyboard.