Archos Gen 9 Cheap Tablet shipping

Couple of months ago we wrote about affordable tablets made by Archos called Archos Gen 9. On June 23rd Archos Gen9 tablet will be released. 9 stands for 9th generation. Archos has been around for last 10 years making portable devices and recently they vouched to produce android tablets and make them cheap, but not [...]

Archos Gen9 Cheap Tablet

For more than 10 years already, Archos has been building portable media players. In recent years, they have been building low cost Android tablet options. According to some news, the company will soon be venturing to new Android tablet options. First, there is the Archos 9. It will utilize the ARM Cortex A9 Chips. By [...]

Archos 5 versus Archos 5 Internet Tablet (Android)

I am very sure that are tons of Archos 5 users that have their eyes on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, that runs Android OS.

One of the many things that people are expecting to work on the Archos 5 Android Internet Tablet is the Archos 5′s remote. So, does it work? Well, simple answer is NO. It won’t work.

What about the plugins that the people purchased for the original Archos 5? Do they work? NO again, but there is little Archos can do in this regard as Archos 5 Android runs Android OS and thus it makes all the plugins incompatible. Again, NO GAMES of your old Archos 5 would work.

I am many of current Archos 5 users will feel cheated about their accessories being rendered completely USELESS and the inability to use their Archos 5 apps on the Android Archos 5.

Bottomline: If do not own any Archos branded product or you do not have any regret about spending that EXTRA money on games, apps, plugins and accessories, then you can go ahead and still buy Archos 5 Android tablet.

READ ARCHOS 5 ANDROID tablet review

Archos to announce Android based tablet on September 15 – We are NOT excited

Archos is all set to release an Android tablet on September 15, 2009. AppsLib, which is an application store for Android states that Archos will be launching an Android tablet with an 5-inch screen with WVGA resolution (800×480).

The tablet will be able to play back 720p videos too without any problems. It also has HDMI out so that you can enjoy all those hi-res videos in all their glory. However, we think it would have been better if they had equipped it with a bigger and higher resolution display as it 5-inch screen with WVGA resolution does not give any huge advantage over the current slew of Android phones.