Archos Arnova 8 shipping

Archos Arnova 8 is known budget tablet. Pre-orders has been bustling with bandwidth and now it’s ready to ship. Arnova 8-Inch Android Tabletcan be ordered at Amazonfor $161.39. Archos Arnova 8 has a 5 1/2 hour battery life which isn’t groundbreaking but look at the cost. For $160 this Arnova 8 tablet is an outstanding [...]

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 Internet Tablet 64GB available!

Looks like folks at Archos have finally got their fat little hands on the 64GB memory modules. The long awaited Archos 5 Internet Tablet 64GB version is available at a French website for 399 Euros. FYI, the 32GB version retails at 299 Euros – yes, 100 Euros less than the 64GB one. It all comes down to how much you are planning to store on this baby.

Specifications: 4.8-inch WVGA touchscreen display, Android OS, 256MB RAM, 64GB flash drive, FM, 286gm. Expected runtime – 22 hours music or 7 hours video playback

Archos 9 tablet PC hands-on video

This Archos has a big 9-inch display and a touch screen display. This is first tablet by Archos that runs Windows OS (Windows 7 Starter to be specific). It has no multi-touch and is bulky at 1.2 pounds. It can either be used with stylus or your fingers. It has Intel Atom Z515 processor, 1GB RAM and 60GB HDD. The Archos 9 comes with a removable 4-cell battery which should give you up to 3 hours of runtime.

At $500, we think it is aptly priced as:

• there are not many similar devices around
• Archos is a good brand
• it runs Windows 7 (although we expected something better than the Starter edition)

Here is the hands on video:

Hands-On With Archos 9 Tablet PC from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

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.