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While there’s no dearth of video playing apps available on Android, French outfit Archos‘ $5 offering stands out as an especially feature-rich option. For those that shied away from the Archos Video Player just because of the outlay involved however, there’s now a free version up for grabs. Supported by ads, it provides all the functionality of its premium cousin, including hardware-accelerated encoding, ability to play network content and online retrieval of movie information like posters and subtitles. Entertainment aficionados can snag the goods at the source link for the unarguable cost of zero, and likely spend the saved scratch on some high-definition bird-slinging action instead.

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One of the coolest things about the newer iPad models is the Smart Cover that turns the tablet on and off when you open or close the cover. There also have been a number of iPad Bluetooth keyboards, but most of them add significant bulk to Apple’s slim tablet. Archos has just unveiled a keyboard for the iPad, which they claim is the world’s thinnest, and functions like the Smart Cover too.

The keyboard is, appropriately enough, called the Ultrathin Keyboard for iPad, and is a scant 5mm thick. The keyboard also weighs 240 g making it roughly half a pound. Archos says that the aluminum-backed white keyboard is the thinnest and lightest iPad keyboard available, noting that it’s almost as thin as the Smart Cover itself when attached to the iPad. With the keyboard fitted to the iPad, the tablet weighs 1.9 pounds and is 13.4 mm thick, working out to a bit over half an inch.

The keyboard has a stand that allows you to prop the tablet at various angles for typing comfort, and locks your tablet into place using the same magnetic method as the Smart Cover. The keyboard will also turn the iPad screen on and off when you open or close it. The QWERTY keyboard also has shortcut keys for iOS functions and connects to the tablet using Bluetooth.

Archos expects to ship the Ultrathin Bluetooth iPad keyboard this March for a retail price of $79(USD).

Just what is your primary computing device of choice? Is it an Ultrabook, a regular sized notebook, or a tablet? I suppose that Apple really made the most out of the tablet revolution, ushering it even, and setting standards for the rest of the industry to follow at the beginning on how a tablet is done right. Well, if the iPad has ended up as your primary means of working whenever you are away from your desk at home or at the office, I am quite sure that you are a deft touch typist on the virtual keyboard by now. However, just in case you have yet to get the hang of a virtual keyboard and type far slower on it compared to a regular keyboard, it is high time you considered a physical keyboard peripheral to go along with your iPad, and this is where the Archos Design Bluetooth Keyboard comes in handy.

The Archos Design Bluetooth Keyboard has been described to be a magnetic Bluetooth full QWERTY keyboard that is compatible with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th generations of the iPad. Created by a newly minted division in Archos, it is said to boast a similar look and feel to the Archos Gen10 XS coverboard, where the Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad remains extremely thin at a mere 5 mm (0.2’’), where it will also boast of an adjustable kickstand alongside an aluminum back casing.

The Archos Design Bluetooth Keyboard will feature an adjustable kickstand, offers magnetic bonding to the iPad, an automatic screen switch on/off function, and a battery life that is said to last for months on end even with regular use. The Archos Design Bluetooth Keyboard cannot be purchased now however if you are hoping to surprise your beau with it this coming Valentine’s Day, as iPad owners can only pick it up from March onwards at $79 a pop.

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Archos must be in a benevolent mood: it first posted a version of its Video Player app for competing Android devices, and now it’s selling the keyboard technology of its Gen10 XS tablets to those using an entirely different platform. Its Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad offers a familiar 0.2-inch thick, Smart Cover-like peripheral for full-size Apple tablets from the iPad 2 through to the latest generation. The design naturally switches over to iOS-native keyboard shortcuts, and there’s even an iPad-only advantage in the adjustable kickstand. Americans can buy the keyboard in March for $79; believing that Archos would downplay its core business will remain optional.

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Archos pleased us when the French consumer electronics company unveiled its flagship tablets at CES 2013. We witnessed the Archos 70 Titanium tablet, the Archos 80 Titanium tablet, the Archos 97 Titanium HD, and the Archos 101 Titanium tablet. Archos also announced the corresponding pricing of the said tablets, but as far as the release dates are concerned, it is still anybody’s guess. So when the Archos 101 Titanium tablet was spotted at the FCC today, we were thrilled. Well, that’s because it rings the possibility that its official launch is imminent. I guess the only real question now is when. As a review, the Archos 101 Titanium tablet sports a 10.1-inch display with a 1,280 x 800 resolution. It will be powered by a 1.6GHz dual-core processor with a quad-core GPU and will arrive running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The price is set at $199.

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