Friday, November 5, 2010

Archos 28 Internet Tablet

archos 28 iThe first of the five Archos tablets is the Archos 28 Internet Tablet, thi is smallest pocket tablet  as you might have guessed, the Archos 28 features a 2.8 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 320x240. There is no word on whether the display is resistive or capacitive, but looking at the price point it is most likely restive.
The Archos 28 runs on a 800 MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and  which comes with WiFi 802.11n connection facility also features, a built in microphone, an accelerometer, and it runs on Android 2.2 Froyo. The Archos 28 doesn’t seem to feature speakers, though. If all this wasn't enough, the device include video playing also supports a large number of video and audio codecs and formats. So you can use it as an audio, video player along with MP3 songs playback.
An interesting feature is a USB 2.0 port with USB host capabilities. As for battery life the Archos 28 gets up to 16 hours of music playback, up to 4 hours of video playback, and up to 6 hours of web browsing.  The device also comes with your choice of 4 or 8 GB of built in flash memory and internet browsing to enjoying all the android based applications. The tablet is powered by an 800MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor along with an accelerometer to enjoy the apps.
Unfortunately, the Archos 28 doesn't support the Android Market, and neither do any of the other Archos Android devices. In terms of size and weight the Archos 28 is 100x54x9 mm and weighs just 68 grams. The Archos 28 hasn't been released yet but Archos is marketing it as being under $100, presumably for the 4 GB version.