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If you’ve enjoyed Archos’ range of tablets so far, you might be interested to learn that the company has a new tablet coming up that appears destined for the higher-end market. Dubbed the Gen 10, Archos has teased a photo of the tablet via its Facebook page along with an announcement that the official unveiling of the tablet will be taking place in 3 weeks’ time. Based on the photo above, the upcoming Gen 10 appears to be pretty sleek and supposedly will be of a higher build quality. It will also come with an optional keyboard dock which should make it a competitor to the ASUS Transformer series of Android tablets. Official details are scarce at this point in time, but if you’d like to find out more about the Gen 10 before making a decision to purchase a tablet, check back with us in 3 weeks’ time to find out more!

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: ARCHOS 97 Carbon Android tablet now available, Archos 97 Carbon tablet arrives at the FCC,

Back at the beginning of the month, we mentioned that Archos had a new inexpensive Android ICS tablet that would be launching sometime this month for $249.99. The tablet is called the Archos 97 Carbon and while we knew most everything about the lower priced tablet, one fact remained unknown. That one key fact was when you could purchase one.

Archos has announced that the 97 Carbon is available for purchase right now. You can hit up the Archos store directly and order the tablet today if you want. We already knew all the specifications and features of the tablet, but I’ll run them down again in case you missed it the first time around. The operating system is Android Ice Cream Sandwich, and the tablet has full access to the Google Play store.

Full access to the Google Play store means that there are over 600,000 different apps and games that the tablet will support along with music, movies, and a lot more. Although the tablet sells for under $250, it has an IPS 9.7-inch multitouch screen. The screen resolution is 1024 x 768, and the tablet has a 1 GHz processor with 1 GB of RAM. The tablet also features front and rear digital cameras.

Storage space includes 16 GB of internal flash, and the tablet has a microSD card slot supporting cards up to 32 GB for total 48 GB of storage possible. The 97 Carbon comes preloaded with all sorts of Google apps including the Office Suite Viewer and more. The tablet can decode full 1080p HD video and can shoot video out to a TV via HDMI output. Other features include a full-size USB port, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. Shipping on the tablet is free.

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Its brief, mandatory appearance at the FCC a couple of weeks ago certainly let us know it’d be ready to take anyone’s cash sooner rather than later, and surely enough, the 97 Carbon’s now making itself available to all. Just as we’d heard, Archos is pricing the Ice Cream Sandwich slate at $250, though the company’s currently running a deal where it’s parting ways with the Elements slab for $20 less than MSRP — naturally, this is a “limited time only” offer, and thus it could change at any given moment. Either way, that amount of greenbacks snags you an eye-pleasing 9.7-inch, IPS display with a run-of-the-mill 1GHz, single-core CPU and 16GB of built-in storage. Obviously the spotlight’s still shining high on Google’s Nexus 7, so we’re interested to find out how many of you think this is enough to make you look past the Jelly Bean sweets — do let us know in the comments below.

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Archos’ ICS-loaded 97 Carbon tablet now up for sale, priced at $230 for a limited time originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you cast your mind back several months, you might recall Archos unveiling a new range of tablets that can pair up with a keyboard add-on. While the French tablet maker kept quiet on the specifics at its debut– with not even a mention of the hardware’s OS — a filing at the FCC helps plug some of those information gaps. Courtesy of the user manual, we can see that the tablet will be running Android 4.0, while the as-yet unspecified storage capacity can be expanded by microSD. There’s a mini-HDMI port that looks like it will require its own proprietary cable, and the keyboard dock? Well, it’s absent from this FCC gallery, but it does appear in the user manual, demonstrating a twist and lift mechanism that creates a pop-up stand for the slab. Gaze on in horror as those FCC technicians prise open the Archos 101 xs’ shell and scope out the internal works — it’s all in the source below.

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Archos’ Transformer rival reappears, passes federal inspection, forgets its keyboard originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The good people over at the FCC have managed to get hold of the Archos 97 Carbon tablet which was recently spotted earlier this month. From the FCC filing, we do know that some of the more elite among you consumer electronics purveyors out there might consider the Archos 97 Carbon tablet to be a poor man’s Android-powered device. It is all part of the strategy of Archos’ low-cost Elements range, where this 9.7″ tablet which is powered by the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system will be powered by a 1GHz single-core processor, featuring various connectivity options in the form of an HDMI out port, a microUSB port, USB support, dual cameras that help you capture photos regardless of which direction the tablet is facing, and a microSD memory card slot that will help complement the 16GB of internal memory that the Archos 97 Carbon already comes with. Would you consider picking up the Archos 97 Carbon tablet when it arrives in the mass market, or do you already have your heart set on an iPad?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Archos reveals the 97 Carbon entry level tablet, Archos 80 Cobalt arrives at the FCC,