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Galaxy Tab does sound like the one to get.

But I am interested in whether it can play unusual media files including DAB and Freeview TV, radio, and radio-on-TV recordings from my set-top box; whether it can share its internet coonection with PCs (and whether the UK service providers consent to this); and whether a version of the Fitaly on-screen keyboard can be used.

Ya, I just make things up and post it all over the internet. I buy anything Archos even if it crashes on me all the time but I tell people otherwise.

That 99% of apps working number, ya I made that number up. I didn't actually test all the apps. I just tested a dozen or so and half of them didn't work and the rest were unstable.

Anyway, I'm off spreading some more lies on the internet.

The current Market hack is only for the Archos 5 Internet Tablet released last year and took quite a while to make the final version.

The hack may not work on the new generation 8 Archos tablets. No one has yet installed Google Market and other Google apps on the new Archos devices.

On the current Archos 5 Internet Tablet many apps don't work perfectly. Many crash while working for a while. GUI elements are sometimes messed up. Some functions don't work correctly. So the 99% figure charbax is saying is just a made up lie.

Plus, Archos has a long track record of releasing very buggy and unstable devices. Many many bug updates, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet is still fairly unreliable.

You can easily install the Google Marketplace on Archos Android tablets, it takes 1 minute, you have to find the market4archos.apk file on Google and that's it. No rooting or hacking of the unit involved. It also installs the full Youtube, Gmail, Google Maps and more Google apps like this.

99% of the apps in the Google Marketplace works perfectly fine on the Archos Android tablets. Even as it doesn't always come with back facing camera for augmented reality, no GPS and no electronic compass in their latest Android tablets, it is only a very small minority of apps in the Google Marketplace that require all these hardware features.

On the other hand, Archos pre-loads proprietary powerful multimedia apps on their tablets which feature playback of all codecs up to 720p including MKV high profile and more.