I hope the touchscreen on the home phone version of Archos Home Connect is better than the touchscreen on their clock radio-- I've been working with the radio version since Saturday evening (when it showed up on my doorstep)-- it SUCKS-- even way worse than the Archos touchscreens of the past (and that's saying something). It requires you to literally pick the thing up, holding firmly in one hand, while "touching" (jabbing FIRMLY) with the finger from the other hand, akin to holding a ball of hard clay and punching a hole in it with your finger-- it requires THAT much pressure in order to get the screen on it to respond. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE-- and I suspect it's how Archos got away with marking it with such a low price (US $149)-- by using such sub-par digitizer/controller hardware. The visual quality of the screen is adequate, not outstanding, but hey, it's only a 3.5 inch screen-- it does the job for which it's intended there-- but the "human interface" design was completely botched-- and that includes installing their so-called "firmware update" that it detected upon my first boot-up-- I'm not confident any of their future updates will compensate for this glaring failure for such an otherwise potentially attractive insertion into the "tabletop clock radio" market.
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