Internet Tablet - Apple talks about it, Archos has done it. #archos5 See the pictures:
The company Archos makes portable entertainment gadgets that often feel like the future. For instance, it started making media players with big screens,video support, and TV output back when your average MP3 player was...an MP3 player. It announced the Archos 5 Internet Tablet on the cutting edge of multiple trends: tablets, Android-powered devices, and PC-like devices that aren't PCs in the traditional sense.
Touch screen with 800 by 480 resolution enough pixels to display typical Web pages with less need for zooming than on an iPhone or other more pocketable device. It's available in versions with up to 32GB of flash memory, and chunkier hard-drive based ones with up to 500GB of disk space.
It runs Google's Android-an operating system. Archos performed a fair amount of customization to the OS's interface, resulting in something that is recognizably Android (it has widgets and a slide-out drawer of apps) but which has been reconfigured for a higher-resolution display. Archos has also launched its own software store, which it's calling AppsLib; it's debuting with only a handful of apps that have been customized for the 5, but the company says it's going to work hard to ramp up the selection.
The device includes 802.11 a/g/n Wi-Fi and GPS, but not 3G broadband (although Archos says that may come along eventually).
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