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touchscreen MP4/5 player recommendations

pickarooney · 2010-12-28 09:13:12

I'm looking for a portable player with the following properties: MP3/AVI playback, must be able to read large video files without converting/resizing 3"+ screen, preferably touchscreen but not necessarily camera can read PDF files no more than €100 I don't mind purchasing second hand if the player is in good nick

28-12-2010 10:13am

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I'm looking for a portable player with the following properties:

MP3/AVI playback, must be able to read large video files without converting/resizing
3"+ screen, preferably touchscreen but not necessarily
camera
can read PDF files
no more than €100

I don't mind purchasing second hand if the player is in good nick

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#2 29-12-2010 3:43pm

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Honestly, nothing comes to mind, even if you doubled the budget I'd have trouble ticking all those boxes.

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#3 29-12-2010 7:54pm

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archos 605 wifi second-hand (try ebay). does what you want except for no camera. will also give you web-browsiing over wifi.

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#4 29-12-2010 7:56pm

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You won't get anything decent in that price range...

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#5 30-12-2010 3:48pm

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glasso wrote: »

archos 605 wifi second-hand (try ebay). does what you want except for no camera. will also give you web-browsiing over wifi.

Cheers, am looking at one for 85 euros second hand. Camera is not really important but WiFi is a nice bonus.

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#6 31-12-2010 6:46pm

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Update: Sorry, just saw you are located in France and CPW don't seem to do International deliveries. Please ignore the following (just left it in for the sake of completness).

How about using a Samsung Wave with its 3.3 inch 800x480 Amoled screen and 5mp camera. See the following thread to see how other boardies having been getting them for €134:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056129901

Note, this thread is sometimes marked as expired but then updated when more stock becomes available.

I assume the Wave can be used as a media player without a sim in it, but if not you can always get another sim.

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#7 02-01-2011 10:49pm

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There are a fair few Samsung Waves floating about, practically new at 100-150 here all right - many people taking advantage of a loophole allowing them to get cheap phones on a contract and then cancel the contract. Looks nice and shiny

I read a bit more on the Archos and it looks a bit gammy - you need to pay extra for everything including $30 for a browser, FFS.

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#8 03-01-2011 7:29pm

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pickarooney wrote: »

There are a fair few Samsung Waves floating about, practically new at 100-150 here all right - many people taking advantage of a loophole allowing them to get cheap phones on a contract and then cancel the contract. Looks nice and shiny

I read a bit more on the Archos and it looks a bit gammy - you need to pay extra for everything including $30 for a browser, FFS.

you can get all the extras for about 15 euro on ebay.

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#9 03-01-2011 11:24pm

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I got my web apps free with the archos and if ur looking for a second hand one just look for one with the Web apps preinstalled !
Archos will do all that and more you get a lot of bang for ur buck

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