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Take one Archos AV500, add Bluetooth…

If the iubi Blue was an average portable media player, we’d spend the next two minutes cajoling you with bad puns and jokes about its frankly pornogra

If the iubi Blue was an average portable media player, we’d spend the next two minutes cajoling you with bad puns and jokes about its frankly pornographic model name.

Fortunately, this is one extraordinary little 30GB video jukebox; it’s the first Stuff’s seen to include Bluetooth. So, while it dispatches the ordinary Archos gamut of movies, music and pics, it’ll let you do all that without a pair of corded, tangle-prone headphones.

Just match a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones – such as Plantronic’s Stuff Hot Buy-winning Pulsar 590As – and you’re in a wireless wonderland.

As a video and music machine, it looks competent. The screen’s a 4.3 widescreen job capable of 480 x 272 res movies, and the format support includes all the usual MP3, WMA and DivX codecs plus some more exotic species such as WMV, Ogg and H.264. It’s not Plays For Sure certified, mind, so won’t play WMA songs bought from download shops like Virgin Digital.

Other features of note are the inclusion of line-in video recording, USB On The Go for transferring digicam pics, built-in stereo speakers and an enduro-tastic eight-hour video battery life.

It’ll cost £250 when it goes on sale from Advanced MP3 Players,

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

Areas of expertise

Computing, mobile, audio, smart home