The budget tablet Arnova 8 is now shipping from J&R and on Amazon. I bought one earlier this week and it should arrive tomorrow. It’s based on an 8″ (800×600) resistive touchscreen, and it has Wifi, 4GB Flash, a microSD card slot, speakers, and a microphone. It’s running Android v2.1 on a single core Rockchip [...]
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First look at the Archos Arnova 8″ tablet
February 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Charbax scored another exclusive yesterday when he sat down with Archos other new tablet, the Arnova 8″. Like the 10″ model, this baby has is running on a 600MHz RK2818 CPU, with resistive touchscreen, 4GB Flash, microSD card slot, Wifi, speaker, microphone, and an accelerometer. It weighs about 17 ounces, and has 6 hours of [...]
First look at the Archos Arnova 10″ tablet
February 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
I found some more info in the Archos tablets that cleared the FCC this week. Charbax got some facetime with Archos’ newest tablet. It does have a 10″ screen, like I though, and the resolution is 1024×600. It’s going to ship with a resistive touchscreen, but a later model should ship about April with a [...]
Archos 70c e-reader clears the FCC
February 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
You might recall from a couple weeks ago that the Archos 70c went up for pre-order on J&R. Yesterday this same e-reader showed up on the FCC website. I don’t have anything beyond this photo, unfortunately. The good stuff won’t be posted until mid-April. BTW, on Sunday I posted some pictures and a hands on [...]
Archos 10″, 8″ Arnova tablets clear the FCC
February 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news
Archos tried to sneak a pair of tablets by me yesterday. Unfortunately for us, Archos hid all the interesting details. All we know about the 10″ tablet is that it exists, the model number is A10HT-ARTo2, and it has a speaker and Wifi. The 8″ tablet, otoh, looks to be the same tablet that popped [...]
Archos 70b e-reader has been hacked
February 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews
Over the past week I’ve found a set of photos of the new Archos e-reader. I also found an 11 minute long hands on video on Youtube. The photos and the video show the same hardware, but they also show radically different software. The photos were posted by Blogeee, a French gadget blog, and they [...]
Archos to release another cheap Android tablet
February 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
The Russian e-reader blog The-eBook.org just caught sight of a new Archos tablet. They haven’t released many details yet, but they have said that the Arnova A80KSC is based on an 8″ screen and it runs Android. Full details will be released when the Arnova tablet is launched. via The-eBook.org
The Archos 70c e-reader marks the beginning of the end of Archos
February 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
The Archos 70c e-reader showed up on J&R website yesterday, and this gave me an opportunity to write a post that I’ve been saving. Archos aren’t the company they used to be. I own an Archos 705, which was one of the last of Archos’ original designs. This was a media device based on a [...]
Archos 70c now up for pre-order
February 5th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
J&R updated their website yesterday with a new product page for the Archos 70c. It’s listed for $149, but there’s no info on when it will be available. This is an e-reader, but it is an Android tablet running v2.1 with a 600MHz CPU, 7″ screen (800×480), Wifi, 4GB Flash, SD card slot, and an [...]
Calibre 0.7.42 now available – adds support for Acer Lumiread, Archos 101
January 21st, 2011 · No Comments · software news
Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management app that was developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a bunchaton of features, including: ebook conversion library management e-reader support news downloading content server (for accessing your library over the web) Calibre
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