Archos announces Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet Update: hands-on pics
By Nilay Patel 
posted June 11th 2009 12:45PM
posted June 11th 2009 12:45PM
Update: Sounds like a 1.2GHz processor -- not exactly a rocket, but probably adequate for a stripped-down Windows 7 build. We're also hearing September / October availability, in line with Windows 7, and a €450 ($633) pricetag.
Update 2: So much for our hopes -- the event is now over and no Android announcements were made. Charbax from techvideoblog (who is at the event) says we'll see more info on September 15.
Update 3: As you'd expect, ArchosLounge is on the scene and they've nabbed some hands-on pics. Check a couple after the break -- we think it looks sort of gigantic, but maybe that's what the world's been waiting for.
[Via UMPC Portal]
sweet thanks!
I wonder how soon before Dell or HP offers something similar? Is this holiday shopping season going to be the year of the tablet?
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doesnt it look a bit like the Smartq7 except better and not made by some unknown china brand?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/27/smart-q7-reviewed-deemed-fairly-useful-for-fairly-basic-tasks/
Anyone that buys ANYTHING from this lemon of a company, gets what they deserve. The first group of people that buy this, will be suckered into being their BETA testers and will have to deal with glitch after glitch and crash after crash. Once they get it SOMEWHAT stable, but still relatively quirky, Charbax will try to convince everyone it is running on all cylinders. Those who then purchase it, will find out 4 days later that the next line of crap is being shoved out the door, making your purchase behind the times already. Those who buy the next generation of crap they shovel, will just help begin the cycle all over. Will this company go out of business already?
yeah charbax for the live feed. it seems every video on tech i watch now is from charbax. good work man!
This looks much like my old UMPC,
Samsung Q1
Damn it. It is not a real tablet pc but a netbook with a touch screen.
BIG difference. :-/
@hated, teh iPhoneZ iz nawt ay Tabelet. It ez ay phawn, aynd itz nawt tawt gaud two !
where is my Android tablet?! I'm pissed. I was looking forward to Android on a device that size.
"yep, Archos has brought back the UMPC" is a derogatory preempting code for when Engadgets Apple of their eye launches the MOST REVOLUTIONARY TABLET ever, then Engadget will claim that Apple is "first"...
after all, Apple will not launch just another UMPC which is a tablet computer with a touchscreen and thousands of programs already written and available for download - oh no, Apple will launch a revolutionary computer device with a revolutionary touchscreen and revolutionaly apps! Get it?
Agreed.
Same goes with the first gen iPods, and the "revolutionnary" iPod nano..lolz
The best of all being the shuffle which is,to me, like buying a trunck of giant baobab to put in up your arse.
Seriously the shuffle is a mp3 from the 90's and they made it hype.
Amazing.
*waiting for the comments from engadget on the 9inch tablet from Apple that is comming*
throw in a 3G sim slot and this would be an amazing on the go machine...great for flights, long bus rides, car trips. it's not like you'd be doing very serious stuff in those situations, just some light browsing, rss checking, email, youtube, maybe a movie. This could have great games with an accelerometer too. this is exactly that the apple tablet should have been. I say should have been because they should have released it last year. except osx won't run on a tablet like win7 will and the iPhone OS isn't powerful enough for a tablet IMHO. so that's where Win7 really finds its niche if it runs as smoothly as it promises on such hardware. definitely going to look in to getting one of these when they drop. as long as it has a decent battery life (8 hours min) and allows for easily swappable batteries (with cheap replacement ones)
Ewww, resistive touchscreen. Also. I don't think this will replace the 7 or the 5 as they are two defferent things. Check their site. They compare it with their laptop line not their PMP line.
Well, Charbax is putting a spin on this one, but here's his real opinion directly from the horse's mouth...
Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:14 pm Post
Yeah and in 6 months you'll have some touch-screen WiFi HSDPA Archos for 99$ at WalMart with unlimited music and films subscription plan, Archos will also be even more compact.
So basically UMPC will always trail far behind, and well, if you want to believe having Windows XP on a half kilo "portable" device is any good, then suit yourself.
I've tried many UMPCs and I think they all suck, might as well buy laptops especially a 100$ Linux laptop if you want a "portable" productivity machine.
Archos is doing mainly entertainment, and is doing it better than anyone else. Whining about Archos doing too much innovation too fast and releasing new products every 6-9 months isn't going to matter. As well as Archos isn't mainly selling to the same little group of customers who already bought previous generations, 99% of Archos customers are people who never bought a PMP before.
And again:
Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:35 pm Post
The only reason UMPCs are on the market is because Intel and Microsoft want to keep dominating the computer market and they get scared when they see cheap and portable computers being introduced by companies 1000 times smaller than they are.
And again:
Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:06 pm Post
I just wish ******* and ******* to have a lot of fun with their Microsoft Windows and Intel products. Aren't they like the best software company and the best processor company in the world anyways. No need to even compete with them and no need to suggest that they might be building their empire on unfair competition that keeps prices and margins high and other monopolistic tactics. Anyways our society is really free so new ideas and different ways of doing things can emerge.
And finally people, even though some of them like wasting money on useless gadgets like the iPhone and UMPCs, will in the end chose the better technology. Cause technology works like the theory of Darwin. Dinosaurs might be ruling the world right now, but sooner or later, I say it's gonna be soner like during the next couple of years, Intelligence will emerge as the winner.
Last edited by Charbax on Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Thanks for digging up my old gems. About 6 months later, Archos released the 99 dollar Archos 5G on HSDPA in French Walmart type of stores.
And yes, this is the year ARM and Android kills Intel and Microsoft. But the fact that Android and ARM will be the obvious winner, does not prevent Archos from using those as long as they can make some extra cash on selling those as long as their is still demand (for a fwe more months) while Android and ARM is still warming up and getting ready for the mass market revolution of all kinds of consumer electronics devices.
Charbax... You make 5,000,000 wild claims and when once every 6 years one of them SOMEWHAT comes to pass, you start acting like you are Nostradomous. I hate the term fanboy, but if this term ever applied to someone, it is you. You like to through technical specs out here and there, to make it sound like you know what you are talking about, but in the end you base EVERYTHING you say on what the name of the company is. Anything Archos is great. Anything Apple or Microsoft is crap. I can tell you this -- I have owned many products from all three -- and Apple and Microsoft BOTH run circles around this lemon of a company called Archos.
Right you are. This is the same clown that had the nerve to announce to his little circle of fanboys that he predicted every major tech step over the last ten years. What he didn't say is that his batting average was about .001. His boorish attitude toward his beloved Archos is childish. If his blowhard forum would admit to some problems perhaps Archos would take note and fix them. Instead he insists that the problem is the consumer is an idiot and Archos=Apollo10. Oy!
Right you are. This is the same clown that had the nerve to announce
to his little circle of fanboys that he predicted every major tech
step over the last ten years. What he didn't say is that his batting
average was about .001. His boorish attitude toward his beloved
Archos is childish. If his blowhard forum would admit to some
problems perhaps Archos would take note and fix them. Instead he
insists that the problem is the consumer is an idiot and
Archos=Apollo10. Oh my!
I don't really mind getting one.
sorry just testing something...
What kind of inputs/outputs will this have? If some guy at archoslounge got to play with the machine why is there no information about this? USB? SD Card? Firewire? Come on! Details!