The little French tech company has yet another alternate version of its G9 tablets up for order over on its web site, with the 1.5GHz “Turbo” editions of the tablets now available for order with Google’s “Ice Cream Sandwich” version of the OS installed.
This means you can get the 8″ 4:3 aspect ratio Archos 80 G9 with Android 4.0 onboard for £199, while the larger Turbo model lets you have ICS on a 10″ display for £269.
Given the way Archos has been doing such a great job with continuous bug-fixes and updates (at least for this pair of models), that’s a pretty good option for getting a tablet with a tablet OS.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
F.P. van der Leur
/ March 15, 2012And how about the first tablets, that have never seen any Android OS for tablets, but still have the slow phone software Android 2.2? Archos has forgotten about the early adaptors, poor after sales. I don’t recommend anybody to buy this french crap, if you don’t believe me, just try and have the same opinion within a year with loss of your money.
Simon
/ March 15, 2012Oh do piss off
F.P. van der Leur
/ March 15, 2012Please stay on the subject.
Erik Jensen
/ March 15, 2012Absolutely agree
Never, never a product from Archos again. What a nightmare and what a loss o money.
Go for another brand and pay more for serius support and software.. I will use my money on Asus Im so happy for my TF 101 and will soon buy the new Asus tablet Prime.
Then we can talk about max value for you money
F.P. van der Leur
/ March 15, 2012Feeling an ‘update victim’ too after buying an Archos 70/101 TABLET with PHONE Android OS?
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