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Archos 5 Internet Tablet in action
Android-powered device on show at London launch event
Thu Sep 17 2009, 14:52
ARCHOS HELD A launch event in London this week for the latest in its range of portable computing devices, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet.
The tablet is available in a range of storage options, including 8GB and 32GB models using Flash memory, and 160GB and 500GB hard drive-based models. It will be available from late September, priced from £199.99 to £349.99.
Over at Inq sister site V3, you can watch a detailed hands-on video of the new tablet.
In the video, you can see the three standard screens of the Android interface in action, plus the advantage of having full HD support for video playback.
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It's far too expensive. Nice accessories. It only has 128mb of ram and only supports flash 9 (10 is the standard). That's just a few things I noticed. There are other drawbacks too. I would get one if the memory footprint was more realistic and it supported current standards and was updated regularly.
Archos has a 2x larger screen surface area compared to the Nokia N900. Thus the 800x480 are much more usable on Archos compared to the N900.
Also the Archos is about half the price of the unlocked Nokia N900.
Then also, Archos provides so many other things like HDMI output, HD 720p playback of all codecs, video-recording using Tivo-like program guide, storage options up to 500GB, USB host for USB keyboard/mouse/digicams/external storage and anything else, Android is better than Maemo.
It will be interesting to see how the flash storage versions of this do against the Nokia N900, which has a similar spec, but is also a phone.
...it's exactly what I'm looking for as an alternative to building HTPCs for the TVs in the house [and that mostly just to stream from a HDHomeRun, I'm tired of running cables ... though I imagine making that work right would still be 'interesting', though at least possible under Android].
Unfortunately, at these prices it costs more than a HTPC build, but certainly has the portability advantage if you want to leave the couch.
Has anyone seen any financial data for/from Archos since the Summer of 2008?
I'd want a bigger screen - A5 probably.
Also built in 3G phone usable via bluetooth. I don't want to carry multiple things each of which can do 80% of what I need.
The comments about GPS were confusing.