The Archos 7 Android Tablet Unveiled! | Specs Review

If you are buff for portable devices, then watch out for the upcoming release of the new Archos 7 on March 2010. This new concept of Internet Media tablet is an innovation brought to the engrossing public by a French consumer electronics company named Archos, a well-known manufacturer of portable media players and portable storage devices.The price of this 8GB Archos 7 Android tablet with a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels is known to be £149.99 ($242) inclusive of the 17.5% UK VAT. The seven-inch touch screen handheld device is fully geared with user-facing webcam, a DC charger, a sliding and locking on-off switch, dual speakers and a microphone.

Despite the absence of hardware buttons necessary in Google Applications such as Market, Maps and Gmail, the Archos Media is still set on further software changes to make this techie tablet the ideal travel companion with its web surfing abilities and song lyrics support (with additional premium APE codec that will definitely satisfy the audiophiles) .

Its internal storage is capable of handling an equivalent of ten movies, the mass storage support is compatible with both Windows or Mac. It could play videos having the formats of MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, FLV, AVI, RM, RMVB, MKV and MOV. Supported formats for music playbacks are MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLAC, APE and AAC. JPEG, BMP and GIF photos can be perfectly viewed through this wonder of a tablet.
Text Files or documents in .TXT formats as well as lyrics files in .LRC arrangements may be opened and seen using this device. The physical dimensions have measurements of 203 by 107 by 12 millimeters.

If you are set on buying the Archos 7 when it is already on the market, you will receive a package that includes a USB cable, ear phones, power supply and user manual.