@TikiTeko In the industry, the technical term for the pants with oversize pockets designed to hold such large tablets are "clown pants".

whether or not the wearer of such pants is actually a clown is open to debate.

If this was a sony, they would probably have an add showing such oversize pockets to demonstrate that this is a true "pocketable" device (aka, the sony netbook).

Very nice; optical mouse controls are very important on a tablet of this size, and it looks like Archos got that right. It is actually relatively affordable (compare it to the price of tablets like the Villiv X70 and Samsung Q1EX).

1.1 GHz might seem slow, but at least they got the 1GB of ram right (probably a Microsoft requirement to bundle Win7 with it).

Win7 starter? They wanted to shave $50 off the price. You can (and should) easily upgrade to Win7 home premium using microsoft's onlune update program.

Battery life might be a serious issue. That battery looks very small.

Sorry to ruin Christmas for you, but small doesn't come cheap.

Unless it is a netbook. Come on dell (or asus), shoot out a 9" tablet based on the mini 9 for $300....

@MasterSushi that would be a great idea.

But you know what would happen. You would buy the 1GB per month plan, and they would charge you $0.05 per kb that you went over.

No way they would offer you a sliding plan, It would be like the old $30 per month 300 minute plans, where you ended up shilling out $200 because you ran over by 50 minutes....

@streetstealth you were right. I laughed, I cried, I threw my TP2 in the wastebasket and ran down to the local apple store...

But I liked the last paragraph best, where AT&T says "...when you run the numbers what you find is that we’re actually better off running a s***** network than making the investment to build a good one. It’s just numbers, Steve..."

classic.

@zwier Idiot-proof?

I think the average idiot can probably easily handle a 3 phase charging cord. If they can plug in a lamp, they can plug in and charge the EV. Yes, it is a bigger cord. Yes, it handles more current.

It would be easy to idiot proof the cord so it is not live at 240V (or whatever) until the plug was firmly seated in the socket.

Inductive charging in your garage? Pointless. Inductive charging at 65 mph in the EV-only lane on the freeway? Priceless

@groberts1980 +1

They need to make it the size of a paperback (get rid of the huge bezel).

Yes, I know, the original is aimed at students and textbooks. Great. Now make a smaller model for the rest of us who don't need textbook sized page everyday.

@r3loaded do you have kids? At 3 or 4 years old, they get really fast. Hiding inside the clothing rack at sears becomes a great game.

You look away for a moment.....

@LanMark you mean like the one in the article above?

@FitFan but it is the first one to use 2 shipping containers as part of their recharge station.

Why? Because they found them just lying around. You know, just drive on down by the docks and there are thousands of them, just lying there....

@Jordan 1 of every 5 new app in the apple store is an ebook....

which means that android and winmo have a over million apps available (since you can buy ebooks online using ereader software from B&N).

App counts are a joke. Apple (and android and winmo) need to cull the crud out of their stores to make them useful and friendly to buyers. They should have a team choose the best 1000 apps, and only allow a new app into their store if it is demonstrated (to the team's satisfaction) that it is better then the app it will displace. Put a cap on it.