Archos Launches $250 Tablet with Full Google Play Access
The Archos 97 Carbon is the first member of the company's new Elements series, and comes with a 9.7-inch, 1024x768 pixel 5x IPS multitouch screen. Future models will be released as 7- and 8-inch products. Just like the Nexus 7, and, other than most previous tablets in the $250-and-below class, the 97 Carbon has full access to Google Play.
The device is slightly thicker than an iPad (11.4 versus 9.7 mm), but weighs less (620 versus 652 grams) than the Apple device. The hardware includes an ARM Cortex-A8 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM and 16 GB of Flash memory for storage. There is a microSD slot to expand the storage by up to 32 GB. The 97 Carbon comes standard with a front and back camera (0.3 and 2.0 MP).
The tablet runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and is promised to be powerful enough to run 1080p videos.
Of course, tablets did not suddenly get a lot cheaper, and with this tablet there are certain compromises compared to the more expensive $400-class devices. The screen resolution is clearly on the low-end and features such as a GPS sensor are missing.
the least they could have done was add bluetooth and a faster CPU (eg the tegra 3 or one of the modern snapdragon CPU's (which overclock really well)
The apq8060 can handle 2 1080p videos at the same time with smooth playback.
if they need to offset the cost then get rid of the rear facing camera, rear cameras on tablets suck and they are rarely used even on the higher end tablets.
Why, exactly, would I give a crap about running two videos in 1080p at the same time? You're asking for premium features in a budget product.
On a 1024x768 display? Nice marketing gimmick there.
It has HDMI out... So it can output 1080p
So its thicker than the original ipad?
Or perhaps just no aluminium case, plastic is significantly lighter than metal, I had Archos MP4 704, and it hadn't any problem of too short battery, not Archos style. They had HDD weakness but now with flash it doesn't mean anything so...
And I'm surprised by the mess around this product as the G9 series from Archos is not so far from that model, and Archos is already well implanted in Asia thanks to that kind of tablet... So I would to understand how this product is really new from Archos.
Maybe people just forget that :
http://store.archos.com/android-tablets.html
since google launched its nexus 7, but I don't see really revolution into the Nexus... Just an upgrade from Archos current products.
Someone can explain to me where this Archos tablet is really improving from Archos mainstream store?
http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/XOOM-Family-Edition-%28Refurbished%29/73969,en_US,pd.html?cgid=tablets
Looking to replace my HP Touchpad with CM9