Word on the street was Archos planned to give us a couple of new tablets at IFA this year, but it turns out the upscale Gen 9 hardware is coming a couple months prior to the September trade show. The new Honeycomb slates are set for a June 2011 release and pack a 1.6GHz ARM A9 dual-core chip (the prospect of which should get you spec-heads drooling), up to a 250GB HDD / 32GB SSD, and a patent-pending "disruptive 3G modem" -- all for €400 (about $566). Archos' fiendish plan is to steal some of the iPad 2's thunder with its speedy processor and competitive price, but history tells us it'll need more than "competitive" to truly yank any marketshare. Too bad the post-PC world can't be bothered to care, right Steve?
ARCHOS suddenly is a 3G modem manufacturer? ARCHOS will "make headway into telcos"?
ReplyDeleteMaybe they should let the telcos and Qualcomm know about that.
This is a broken record. Some company puts out a press release with a list of specs for a new tablet and everyone hurries to compare it to an iPad. Apple didn't invent the tablet...they created the successful selling tablet which is different.
ReplyDeleteMotorola has no successful tablet, Archos has no successful tablet, and RIM has no successful tablet so they should all be compared to each other because they are all in the same boat. This will be Archos 3rd recent attempt to sell a successful tablet and just having fancy specs won't change anything.
Honeycomb sounds nice but the employees at Best Buy have no idea what it is or how to explain what it does.