Archos 80 G9 Turbo ICS 250GB 8-Inch Tablet
With its high-resolution, 8-inch display, the ARCHOS 80 G9 tablet is perfectly designed to give presentations, read e-magazines and e-books, or browse the web. It’s powered under the hood by a 1.5 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP4 multi-core ARM Cortex A9 processor–which gives you up to 50 percent faster performance than the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor found in many tablets. It also runs Android 4.0 (aka, Ice Cream Sandwich), which is specially designed and optimized for tablets.
Price: $369.99
With a Wi-Fi connection, you’ll be able to connect to the Web to check e-mail, stream media, and more. And thanks to support for Adobe Flash 11, you’ll enjoy a full Web experience plus access to Google’s suite of Mobile applications and the constantly growing number of apps in Google Play.
Connect the 80 G9 to your compatible HDTV via the HDMI output to share the Android experience–not only video playback, but also 3D games, photos, and all apps. Other features include 250 GB of internal storage with additional expansion via microSD memory cards (sold separately), wide compatibility with video and music file formats, front-facing camera for video chats, Bluetooth connectivity, GPS for navigation and location-based services, and a built-in leg stand for viewing comfort.
The Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” (ICS) operating system is specially designed and optimized for tablets, giving you a full web experience for on-the-go web browsing, communication, and applications. It builds on the things people love most about Android–faster web browsing, easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets, and enhanced social media integration. Additionally, ICS adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing with improved text input and spell checking, a dynamic voice input engine, enhanced imaging capabilities, and a redesigned Gallery app with photo editor.
The ARCHOS 80 G9 tablet comes with several unique built-in add-ons to ICS, including full 1080p support for most video codecs, automatic download of movie and TV show descriptions and subtitles, wireless sharing to a compatible DLNA HDTV, and 3D video support for MKV3D files. Additional features include an optimized File Manager with full drag and drop support, Ethernet USB dongle support, and the ARCHOS remote control application that allows your tablet to be controlled by any Android device.
The built-in Archos multimedia apps give you the option to browse your music and videos from automatically organized multimedia libraries. With film and TV series metadata automatically downloaded, even your video files are automatically organized by title, actor, director, year, season, episode, etc. And the 80 G9 is able to decode Full HD (H.264 HP, 1080p) videos and with massive codec, format and subtitle support.
Streaming media from your PC or Mac is included as standard in the ARCHOS multimedia apps. Using UPnP and Samba protocols, streaming or downloading music and video from your computer to your G9 tablet is easy.
You’ll always have a movie to watch, a song to listen to, a game to play, or a picture to view thanks to the 250 GB of internal storage. You can add more space using optional microSD memory cards for up to an additional 32 GB of storage (sold separately).
