Tag archive: Archos

Watch out, Kindle Fire, there's a new cheap tablet in town. Announced yesterday, the Archos 70b Internet Tablet (pdf) runs on Android 3.2 (Honeycomb), and is advertised as the first tablet to sport Honeycomb that costs under $200. Of course, the suggested starting retail price is $199, for the 8GB model. Despite its light price tag, the 70b actually has some solid specs, including a 1.2GHz CPU, a 7-inch touchscreen with a 1024×600… Read More

Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) has been released by Google, but through the holidays we won't see many new smartphones or tablets shipping with it, since most of them were designed before Google released the code in November. As such, we still haven't seen much of the new operating system. Yesterday, Archos sent us a video if its G9 tablet running Android 4.0 and it looks pretty nice, if a bit similar to Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).… Read More

Device maker Archos unveiled its the Archos 80 G9 and the Archos 101 G9 in Paris today, the company's latest Android tablet offerings. Clearly aimed at digital media and entertainment fans, the main distinction between the G9 tablets is their screen size: the 80 sports an 8-inch 1.024 by 768-pixel display, while the 101 kicks out to 1,280 by 800 pixels and (you guessed it) 10.1 inches. Under the hood, both G9 tablets offer a dual-core… Read More

Pundits have been predicting that the broad availability of Android tablets would eventually trigger a race for the lowest price point in the market, and newcomer Arnova seems to be getting a jump on the competition with the Archos-designed Arnova 7, a 7-inch Android tablet running Android 2.2 Froyo that the company plans to offer for $99. The Arnova 7 lacks some features in higher-end tablets (including other entries in the Arnova line), but… Read More

Archos has been in the portable media player game for just about the same amount of time as Apple, boasting touchscreen interfaces and tablet-like features in its devices well before the iPhone was even announced. The French company has already gotten in on the ongoing tablet tablet race that is presently unfolding, with the release last year of a line of Android-powered tablets. With the iPad 2 now out, Archos is looking to step up the… Read More

The Android tablet market was supposed to heat up in time for the end-of-year holiday season…and that seems to be exactly what's happening as portable media device maker Archos starts shipping its 4.3-inch and 7-inch Android tablets in the United States and Europe. Both devices run Android 2.2 “Froyo” and offer Wi-Fi but not 3G connectivity, so users will be restricted to tapping into the Internet from locations they… Read More

Google's Android operating system might be running up great business in smartphones, but a flood of Android-based tablets are due to hit the market in time for the end-of-year holidays—and there's no reason Android can't be applied to phone-sized portable media players and gaming systems. With that in mind, Archos has announced the availability of its Archos 32 Internet Tablet, featuring a 3.2-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi… Read More

The iPad suddenly has competitors. At the IFA show this week in Berlin, Samsung announced its 7-inch Galaxy Tab, and Toshiba its Folio 100 (which won't be coming to the U.S. for a while, if at all). Back in the U.S., Archos unveiled not one but five tablets — actually three small Android multimedia players and two tablets, with 7- and 10.1-inch screens.

Let the games begin! The tablet field that Apple has taken a stranglehold on will finally be seeing some competition in the stores, when the Archos 7 Home Tablet- powered by Google's Android OS comes to a home near you this June. Although the pre-orders for the tablet on Amazon suggest an April release date, the Archos press release issued today confirms that the tablet will release in June and cost under $200, although an exact day in… Read More

Although it's been available in other markets for a while, media player maker Archos is finally bringing its diminutive Archos 2 digital music player to the United States market. And when we say “diminutive” we don't mean so-small-you-could-lose-it like the Apple iPod shuffle, but we do mean the unit maked to be sleek and portable without doing away with a display to help users manage their songs and playlists. And… Read More

Imagine Die Hard without explosions, Bond without the bullets, or The Matrix without kung-fu. Translation: Speakers are nice. However, if you’re serious about sound, you may want to include a subwoofer in your home setup. To put it simply, the subwoofer is the heart of the system when it comes to low-frequency sounds. While the sub may not look as cool as the other speakers in your home theater readout (although certain… Read More

Archos might be best-known for its line of well-specced media players, but the company is not standing idly by while the computing industry sinks its teeth into netbooks. Earlier this year, Archos introduced the Archos 10, a slim Atom-powered netbook. Today, the company not only took the wraps off its followup, the Archos 10s, but announced (PDF) it plans to roll out a 9-inch MiniPC Tablet in 2010 based on Intel's forthcoming… Read More

Video rental outfit Blockbuster is looking to amp up its competition with upstart rival Netflix, announcing today it is partnering with Sonic Solutions (now part of CinemaNow) to provide Internet-based, streaming access to movies and other video content to computers, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and Web-connected TVs. Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed, but the companies say this is a multi-year, preferred-provider… Read More

Archos has been sticking with the personal media player market, gamely continuing to compete with the Apple iPod juggernaut by consistently offering players that offer more storage, better specs, bigger screens, a wider degree of compatibility, and a wider range of features. Now, the company is rolling the sixth generation of PMPs—dubbed “Internet Media Tablets”—that all pack Wi-Fi, and which include models offering… Read More

Although the product has been in the rumor mill for quite a while, Archos has unveiled its Archos TV+ just ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and already the device is being hailed in some quarters as everything the Apple TV should have been, offering Wi-Fi connectivity, DVR capabilities to record and store television content, the ability to download movies and TV shows from the CinemaNow-powered Archos content portal, and… Read More