46 thoughts on “Hands-on with the Archos G9 tablets”
i just ordered one of these!!!! YES!!
Crikey, shut up in the background!
@pekkle007 512MB.
What is the RAM?
Have to love the left, always going to CNN. Oo
are these in the shops now or are they out 2012
@mnguyea The Gen 9 tablets are reported to be some of the best on the market in actual fact. I am not really sure how you are in a position to say otherwise when the products isn't even available in many countries quite yet!
OMG this is the worst review I ever seen!!!!!!!
@anonimuso thanks, im not worried about it being chunky, my personal prefrerence is that actually,
@sh9683 My current Archos (A70) does ebooks pretty well. It's really just the software that matters. I use FBReader, which is great because it can recognize all of the formats you might want (.mobi, epub, pdf). I'm sure that you won't have any problems with the new Gen9.
I must say that I think Archos took a step back in terms of design with Gen9. My Gen8 A70 is sleek and all black. The new Gen9 looks chunky and is grey and black. I think they should have stuck with the old design.
how about for ebooks will it do good at that too?
@anonimuso 100 % sorry
@anonimuso agreed to that! 100$
Lag I see!
@dankuro97 I've heard it as 2 usb ports, both host but at same time they may lock the dongle 1 to be just for that use
Only 512MB of RAM. ALl new tablets has 1GB+
Using this will not be comfortable with so small amount of installed memory 🙁
@drxym GBP
I'd love to know what currency that 299-399 price is in.
@traxanasify Not released until september
I think I might have to get one, I just sold my HD PVR, and my archos 5 IMT wont turn on any more, so may purchase one of these
@traxanasify i know that they are releasing it in september. but my question is why are they not selling Archos products in India?
why arent they selling this is INDIA??????? 🙁
Soooo this or tab 10.1?
@mycomputerismyfriend yes for hard drive on 8inch model
@mnguyea i disagree i never bought archos tablets because of no offical android market and the specs werent competive now that the specs are top notch and offical market i might pick up the archos 10 g9 250gb version it retails for 470 when its released maybe ill buy if you gets to my 399 sweet point
@roboghost7 lol i know what you mean i almost got an archos 7 instead of an ipod touch but no android market so i got the ipod touch now rocking the evo 3d and want a tablet and this is the first time i can say that archos made a good tablet for the price
@jaw2floor good news the 10 inch version is 16by10 yeah
battery life ?
@MACBLACK91 they changed it because it isn't true anymore. all models will have the 1.5ghz chip.
@MACBLACK91
where did you read that?
*tablet, but the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is too expensive – If Archos has improved at all since the days of the archos 5, I might pick this up.
I'd love to get a good android tab
@MACBLACK91 they never said that in the video, so I would like to know where you got that from.
what an ugly tablet!
If one of the tablets main function is for watching films, why have a 4:3 display? I'd buy it without doubt otherwise,
Archos has made some great media players but as soon as they started making tablets the products have gone down hill.
I take it the bad comments are from people who never own the Archos 70?
@mnguyea In the 9 months since i've had my A70 (Gen8), Archos has released at least two major firmware updates. And they often are watching the forums and making sure that they respond to their customer's issues.
Now Archos isn't perfect by any stretch, after all, they are at the lower price point. But for what you pay, you get a damn good product. I'd rather spend 275 for my A70 which can do everything an iPad can do and more (flash), than 600 for a silly iPad that is hamstrung by Apple.
is the money in dollar or euros or GBP?
looks like a HUGE Nexus One
I don't know why people waste money on crappy devices like this. archos makes the worst products and you though sammy was bad with updates…how about none ever. I'd spend my money on the other better tablets out there. this is not one of them.
I think archos makes great products but every single device I've ever sold or owned never gets any support after an update which just fixes what should have already work
i like to test Live Touch Xj remix on this Tablet !
or you could spend $50-100 extra on an Asus transformer and have proper software support for the future? Not a single archose device has been kept remotely up to date on software.
@BSchorr $249 for the 8-inch version and $349 for the larger 10-incher.
i just ordered one of these!!!! YES!!
Crikey, shut up in the background!
@pekkle007 512MB.
What is the RAM?
Have to love the left, always going to CNN. Oo
are these in the shops now or are they out 2012
@mnguyea The Gen 9 tablets are reported to be some of the best on the market in actual fact. I am not really sure how you are in a position to say otherwise when the products isn't even available in many countries quite yet!
OMG this is the worst review I ever seen!!!!!!!
@anonimuso thanks, im not worried about it being chunky, my personal prefrerence is that actually,
@sh9683 My current Archos (A70) does ebooks pretty well. It's really just the software that matters. I use FBReader, which is great because it can recognize all of the formats you might want (.mobi, epub, pdf). I'm sure that you won't have any problems with the new Gen9.
I must say that I think Archos took a step back in terms of design with Gen9. My Gen8 A70 is sleek and all black. The new Gen9 looks chunky and is grey and black. I think they should have stuck with the old design.
how about for ebooks will it do good at that too?
@anonimuso 100 % sorry
@anonimuso agreed to that! 100$
Lag I see!
@dankuro97 I've heard it as 2 usb ports, both host but at same time they may lock the dongle 1 to be just for that use
Only 512MB of RAM. ALl new tablets has 1GB+
Using this will not be comfortable with so small amount of installed memory 🙁
@drxym GBP
I'd love to know what currency that 299-399 price is in.
@traxanasify Not released until september
I think I might have to get one, I just sold my HD PVR, and my archos 5 IMT wont turn on any more, so may purchase one of these
@traxanasify i know that they are releasing it in september. but my question is why are they not selling Archos products in India?
why arent they selling this is INDIA??????? 🙁
Soooo this or tab 10.1?
@mycomputerismyfriend yes for hard drive on 8inch model
@mnguyea i disagree i never bought archos tablets because of no offical android market and the specs werent competive now that the specs are top notch and offical market i might pick up the archos 10 g9 250gb version it retails for 470 when its released maybe ill buy if you gets to my 399 sweet point
@roboghost7 lol i know what you mean i almost got an archos 7 instead of an ipod touch but no android market so i got the ipod touch now rocking the evo 3d and want a tablet and this is the first time i can say that archos made a good tablet for the price
@jaw2floor good news the 10 inch version is 16by10 yeah
battery life ?
@MACBLACK91 they changed it because it isn't true anymore. all models will have the 1.5ghz chip.
@MACBLACK91
where did you read that?
*tablet, but the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is too expensive – If Archos has improved at all since the days of the archos 5, I might pick this up.
I'd love to get a good android tab
@MACBLACK91 they never said that in the video, so I would like to know where you got that from.
what an ugly tablet!
If one of the tablets main function is for watching films, why have a 4:3 display? I'd buy it without doubt otherwise,
Archos has made some great media players but as soon as they started making tablets the products have gone down hill.
I take it the bad comments are from people who never own the Archos 70?
@mnguyea In the 9 months since i've had my A70 (Gen8), Archos has released at least two major firmware updates. And they often are watching the forums and making sure that they respond to their customer's issues.
Now Archos isn't perfect by any stretch, after all, they are at the lower price point. But for what you pay, you get a damn good product. I'd rather spend 275 for my A70 which can do everything an iPad can do and more (flash), than 600 for a silly iPad that is hamstrung by Apple.
is the money in dollar or euros or GBP?
looks like a HUGE Nexus One
I don't know why people waste money on crappy devices like this. archos makes the worst products and you though sammy was bad with updates…how about none ever. I'd spend my money on the other better tablets out there. this is not one of them.
I think archos makes great products but every single device I've ever sold or owned never gets any support after an update which just fixes what should have already work
i like to test Live Touch Xj remix on this Tablet !
or you could spend $50-100 extra on an Asus transformer and have proper software support for the future? Not a single archose device has been kept remotely up to date on software.
@BSchorr $249 for the 8-inch version and $349 for the larger 10-incher.
It has a kickstand like an HTC EVO.