Archos 250 GB unpacked into the Tablet

Archos 250 GB unpacked into the Tablet

The Android-Tablets of the small French manufacturer Archos is not as thin and stylish as the stick of Samsung or Toshiba in them but some fresh ideas: an additional fee, it they should be with 250-gigabyte hard drive, UMTS is upgraded and integrated Feet turn them into picture frames.


The 8-inch (front) has a display in 4:3 format is good, the 10-inch monitor with a 16:10 for better movies. Both tablets - to 8-inch 80-incher and the 10 G9 G9 101 - Archos had announced a few weeks. The technical data are available on the company website: The operating system Android is 3.2, as a dual core CPU from Texas Instruments.

At IFA, we can now try out pre-production units. They run smoothly, what with the various predecessors with Android 2 was not always the case. Moreover, the new Archos models, the first tablet with Google's Certificate - the Android Market and the Google Apps such as Mail and Maps are also on board.


Archos plans to offer UMTS USB sticks separately. They fit into the housing and on each tablet notebook. The 80-G9 displays 1024 x 768 pixels (4:3 format) depending on equipment and costs between € 250 (8 GB flash) and 330 € (250-gigabyte hard drive). The larger 101 G9 displays 1280 x 800 pixels in a widescreen format and will cost between 300 and 400 Euros. The variants with hard disk with 600 and weigh 750 grams more than the flash models. Aiming for the start date: end of September.