All the stories tagged with Archos
Archos is a French consumer electronics company that manufactures tablets, eReaders, MP3 players, media players, and notebooks. The company once manufactured portable storage devices, digital camcorders, and portable computers. It was founded in 1988 by Henri Crohas. Popular products include the Archos 9 PC Tablet, the Archos 133 PC 13.3-inch netbook, the Archos 5 Internet tablet, and the Archos 8 home tablet. Archos is also famous for its Arnova series. Arnova, previously known as Archos Technology Hong Kong, is now called Arnova Technology Hong Kong China. Arnova uses the designs from Archos and both share productions and distribution facilities. Read our Archos product reviews to see what the company has been up to: Archos 5 Internet Tablet Review, Archos 101 XS Review.
Archos 7 and Archos 8 Home Tablets
03/01/2010, Archos has rolled out its 7 and 8 Home Tablets that emphasize more on being easy on your pockets and targeting home use instead of being a fully fledged Mobile Internet Device. Despite their intended function, they aren’t gimped in [...]
Archos 3 Touch portable media player
03/01/2010, Archos’ latest portable media player, the Archos 3 Touch looks set to take on the iPod touch in market stakes, where you get a 3″ touchscreen display, 8GB of internal memory, the ability to handle a whole gamut of audio [...]
Archos has couple of Android-powered tablets in the pipeline
02/19/2010, Archos has two tablet devices that will run on the Android operating system, where they will see action in Germany at the CeBIT show, touting both models to be “good value Android Tablets that are specially designed for use in [...]
Archos 7 tablet could run on Android
01/27/2010, We all know that with news of Apple ready to announce its much hyped tablet device today, virtually anything else that isn’t Apple won’t light up the radar. Well, Archos goes against the grain with whispers of an Archos 7 [...]
Archos 5 to get Android 1.6 update
01/21/2010, Folks who own the Archos 5 device will be pleased to know that a full OS update to Android 1.6 (aka Donut) has been released. Too bad there aren’t any groundbreaking changes with no Android markeplace support in sight, although [...]
Archos Phone Tablet Might Be Just Around The Corner
01/14/2010, This probably isn’t a solid indicator that the Archos Phone Tablet is going to be released sometime soon, but an online retailer has already begun to list a leather case for this device on its “upcoming products” list, and has [...]
Archos 5 gets Donut and loses it
12/28/2009, Folks who own the Archos 5 Android-powered Internet tablet experienced a rather short-lived joy today – first, they received a new 1.6.08 firmware update which fixes a handful of existing features, only to have Archos pull the update from its [...]
Archos 9 Manages To Run Chrome OS
12/18/2009, Now here’s something rather cool. Google’s Chromium OS isn’t final yet, but folks are already trying to install it on various devices, and this time it’s the Archos 9 tablet. The OS doesn’t even have a touchscreen keyboard for you [...]
Archos 9 unboxing
12/18/2009, Check out this video of the Archos 9 unboxing, where it runs on Windows 7 Starter Edition – news that would most probably send some of you running for tissues since that translates to the Archos 9 being gimped. Why [...]
Archos 1 Vision unveiled
12/07/2009, Archos has further enhanced their lineup with the Archos 1 Vision entry-level device. You won’t expect this to be an iPod touch killer – no sir, by all means it is meant to introduce you to the world of digital [...]
Archos To Release Developer Firmware
11/28/2009, It looks like Archos is quite supportive of developers, evidenced by its recent PR that confirms that the company is making a proof-of-concept “developer edition” firmware for its ARCHOS 5 and ARCHOS 7 Internet Media Tablets. The firmware will be [...]
Archos Vision 1 for the budget conscious
11/06/2009, Are you on an extremely tight budget but do not want to be left out from your group of friends who all have a portable media player of sorts? The Archos Vision 1 might fulfil that need, where it comes [...]
Archos 5 Internet Tablet having problems
10/12/2009, Despite being just a couple of days out, Amazon has stopped all orders for its 160GB hard drive-based Archos 5 device, placing the item “under review.” Apparently, it might be a problem on their end that concerns the way it [...]
