The Archos Arnova 9 G2 is a budget tablet with a 9.7 inch display and Android 2.3 operating system. Archos introduced the tablet a few months ago, and now it’s available for purchase from several retailers in the US.
PC Richard & Son is selling the Arnova 9 G2 for $229.99, while B&H has it in stock for $249.99.
The tablet has a 1024 x 768 pixel capacitive multitouch screen, an ARM Cortex-A8 1 GHz single core processor, and 4GB of storage. It has a microSDHC card slot for expansion, 802.11b/g WiFi, and supports up to 6 hours of battery life while watching videos (or 4 times more when listening to music with the screen off).
Out of the box the Arnova 9 G2 includes the AppsLib app market instead of the official Google Android Market. I suspect it won’t take long for someone to figure out how to hack the tablet to use the Android Market though, Archos tablet users have a long history of tweaking their tablets with such fixes.
The Arnova 9 G2 measures 9.4″ x 7.2″ x 0.4″ and weighs 1.4 pounds.
thanks nards barley!
Archos is extremely bad with updates. The original tablets that start
selling end 2010 (!) are still runing on 2.2: garbage! Don’t buy Archos,
it might look nice now, but in a few months you will already be
hopelessly behind and Archos will not come with descend updates.
Supposedly an IPS display which makes this one interesting.
Yup basically exactly the same screen as on the iPad2, processing a bit better than the iPad1.