January 24, 2011

  • Archos Mini Dock for Archos 5 IT

    After traveling with archos 5 IT, I found that I could go online but couldn't update xanga was annoying. Hence I was looking for ways to make the Archos 5 take a SDHC card.

    All I need is a dock for archos 5 which always comes with a USB socket. Searching online and a new one usually costs 59USD.

    Lucky that I am someone was selling a 2nd hand in yahoo auction and i only got it with HKD150.


    It arrived this morning.

    Standard mini dock it is. It charges the Archos 5 without USB, too.

    One side with AC-in and S-video out, the other side with USB, mini usb and AV out.

    a 3.5mm to AV cable is included. Can directly connect the archos to TV to watch any videos playing from Archos.

    This is what i need, through the dock, I connected a USB card reader and Archos recognised it as an external drive and can be viewed through File Manager.

    Not just the external drive it detected, also TV out function which i can try later.

    With this combination, I can play videos i took with DC, play it with Archos and display it on TV. Simple~