Video Hands-On With The New Froyo-Powered Archos Tablets
September 4th, 2010 by K. T. Bradford 
I dropped by the Archos booth at IFA today to get a look at their new family of media players/tablets (the ones we told you about earlier this week). I’m an Archos fan going way back to the media player days and I even came to love the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, but after the 7 Home Tablet and 9 PCTablet I wondered if Archos still had it in them to impress me with a tablet device.
Short answer: they do. It looks like the company has taken much of the criticism of their previous tablets to heart and solved the big problems in these new models. The screens are much more responsive and very bright, plus the performance looks much snappier. I was surprised to find that Android 2.2 works pretty well even on the smallest, 2.8-inch screen. And of course the 10.1-inch model offers a nice, big canvas for images, video, or documents.
Check out our hands-on video below and let us know whether you think Archos has finally hit a home run in the tablet space.
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September 4th, 2010 at 6:08 am
pretty darn nice
September 5th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Which one have Wifi? He only mention the bluetooth connectivity to connect with 3G smartphone.
September 5th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Darn! should have watched to the end, I have my answer now, sorry
September 5th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Not bad,
Get a new marketing guy, the french accent really doesn’t help sell.
Also, make the bezel smooth with the screen.
Otherwise, pretty good looking form factor. I know you guys really want to have your name all over the device, but really, just lose it. What if people are holding it vertically? Then the Archos Tablet will be displayed vertically and is annoying. I know there are a lot of haters towards Archos, but they keep on trying! Gotta give them some cred. One of the nicer devices on the market right now. Is there 3g?
September 6th, 2010 at 7:12 am
It would be nice it they had a GPS chip… Anybody knows if Android can pair with a GPS receiver via Bluetooth, as I do with my iPAQ 214 running WM? I like the idea of having a PDA form-factor Android device, and use a dumb phone only to make calls and text.