Archos 7 Home Tablet (8GB) for $149

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9, 7-inch, Archos Android Tablet, you can buy the successor of it (Arnova 7 G2) at www.amazon.com This is optimized for low power (up to 7 hours video playback on the battery), lower cost Android multimedia tablet features. It is powered by a 600mhz Rockchip 2808 processor, does web browsing pretty well (for an ARM9 processor) and plays all video codecs at up to 720p video playback (at up to limited 2500kbit/s bitrates for 720p). Archos is going to try to sell this device in all retail stores of the world at only 9 in the USA and 149€ in Europe (because European countries have more taxes they don't just convert Euro prices to US Dollar prices), it may quickly become a best-seller and I think it is a great very low-cost alternative to the iPad. For advanced users that absolutely want the fastest OMAP3440 ARM Cortex A8 800mhz processor, there is the Archos 5 Internet Tablet available today below 9 at Radio Shack www.radioshack.com or you might want to wait another few months (I am speculating) for Archos to release the next generations of ARM Cortex A8 or ARM Cortex A9 based tablet devices (probably also for a bit more expensive than this Home Tablet series) at all different screen sizes (I speculate and the interviews around the web point to clues towards from 3" to 10" Android Tablets starting at 0...) For now, this Archos 7 Home Tablet is being released this next month or by May already and at this amazingly low 9 price for the 2GB version with MicroSD ...