The Archos PMA400 is a personal digital assistant (PDA) from

Archos Archos (, stylized as ARCHOS) is a French Multinational corporation, multinational consumer electronics, electronics company that was established in 1988 by Henri Crohas. Archos manufactures tablet computers, tablets, smartphones, portable media ...

, with a hard disk drive and audio and video playback and recording capabilities, so it also functions as a

portable media player A portable media player (PMP) (also including the related digital audio player (DAP)) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files. The data is typically stored o ...

(PMP). The PMA400 was the most expensive within the line of products that they supplied. Based on the Linux Qtopia Embedded operating system, the device is more like a personal digital assistant than a normal media player. The PMA400 features the following: * IR remote * Software (pre-installed or from online feed) ** PIM: E-mail client, Agenda,

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, Contact Directory ** Text Viewer and Editor **

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Viewer ** Opera and

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web browsers ** Podcast client ** Most Qtopia apps that work out of the box are available. *

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using the Mophun engine Though it remains Archos's only dedicated PDA, some of its features can be seen on the later 604WiFi including touchscreen and web browsing.

OpenPMA

The original firmware had some major bugs that are now being gradually fixed in an open source firmware by the open''PMA'' project. Added functionality from openPMA are: * Audio support from openPMA: Ogg vorbis, Musepack * Many Zaurus packages are compatible or have been adapted * Access SMB/CIFS network shares using

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and a GUI frontend * Act as a SMB/CIFS server allowing other computers on the network to access the internal hard disk * Th
MediOS
extension originally developed for the AV and Gmini series is available enabling the user to run NES, Sega Mega Drive emulators and '' Doom'' interpreter.

External links

Archos PMA430 on PointLisse.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Archos Pma400 Personal digital assistants Portable media players Linux-based devices Touchscreen portable media players Computer-related introductions in 2005

OpenPMA

See also

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