FCC Outs Archos Android Mini Tablet

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Does an Android device with a 3.2-inch screen still qualify as a "tablet"? That was the first question that popped into my head when I saw images of the Archos 32 Android tablet that were published Tuesday by the FCC.

Maybe I'm still feeling the effects of my time with the Dell Streak, but aren't tablets supposed to stretch beyond the confines of the pocket? Maybe not. It seems manufacturers have decided anything with a smartphone OS and a touch screen is a tablet--a tactic that may come back to bite them if Apple starts including the iPod Touch in their assessment of tablet computer market share.

Pontificating aside, the Archos 32 looks like fun. Along with details leaked from a short-lived product page on J&R, we now know the Archos 32 includes an 800MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, with 8GB of storage, running a custom version of on a 400x240 resolution touch-screen display. Oddly, a touch-sensitive direction pad is also included beneath the display, along with more typical buttons for home, back, enter, and menu.

Further details reveal specs such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, composite video output, and a rear-facing camera capable of 640x480 resolution MPEG-4 video recording.

If the J&R leak is any indication, pricing should come in around $ 150, and the FCC filing has us thinking we won't need to wait much longer.

I agree with you there 3ollie. Why there is such an aversion to simply giving the consumer what they want, is beyond baffling.

"netbook - keyboard = tablet" - would be an accurate and welcome addition to the tablet world. Give us a 7" to 10" capacitive or resistive touch LCD screen (resistive really has caught up to capacitive if you know about the matter), a 1Ghz single or dual core processor, 8GB SSD or the equivalent storage device, 512Mb of RAM, an option for 16 or 32 GB's of expandable memory, a good easy to use media player, Flash, front and rear cameras with video capability, an optional tuner for TV radio or streamed Live multi network TV, Wi-fi or with wireless N, bluetooth and tethering capability with HDMI in and outs and more than just one USB port and the always needed micro speaker out/ headphone jack port. Maybe if that isn't to much, a USB 3.0 port. I know that seems like a lot, but think about it. It's all low tech, two to four year old technology, that's already in products of all kinds with the exception of USB 3.0. Android 2.1

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