The latest tablet from French device maker Archos is a mid-range tablet with an 8 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display and a 1.6 GHz dual core processor. It’s called the Archos 80 Cobalt and while Archos hasn’t revealed pricing yet, the company tends to use the Cobalt name for its mid-range devices, which suggests that this tablet is more likely to carry a Nexus 7-like price than the similarly-sizediPad mini-style one.
The Archos 80 Cobalt runs Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has 8GB of storage, and 1GB of RAM. There’s also a microSD card slot for additional storage.
Archos says the tablet has a 2MP rear camera, 0.3MP front camera, WiFi, a mic and speaker, G-sensor, micro USB port, and headphone jack. It measures 8″ x 6″ x 0.45″ and weighs just over a pound.
If I had to guess, I’d that 1.6 GHz processor is a Rockchip RK3066 CPU paired with Mali 400 graphics.
The tablet ships with the Google Play Store and other Google apps including Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Talk.
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i bought an archos 80 g9 turbo for $160.00 recently. love hdmi, speed, can’t wait for jelly bean ONLY if jelly bean supports all the usb features of the ICS android.
decent specs except no hdmi. Shame on them
If they get 4.2 on there at some point you can do miracast 😉
good point. I forget that feature is coming. I don’t think Archos has reputation for upgrading firmware however.
Huh? i would say they are on par with Asus. Hell, it may well be that their Gen10 devices will be updated far into 4.1 if not 4.2.
I owned an Archos 70 and Arnova 10 G2 so maybe I owned the wrong thing.
I accidentally wrote gen10 when i meant gen9 btw. I think perhaps their previous issue had been rapidly changing hardware platforms, making it a mess to maintain firmwares for multiple devices generations. My gen9 80 turbo got a point bump the other day that pretty much match what is on their recently released gen10 101 xs.