£100 Archos 70 Is Cheapest Capacitve Tablet Yet

Carphone Warehouse has slashed the price of the Archos 70 Internet tablet to a mere £100, a third less than competitors like Amazon and a 60 per cent discount off its suggested retail price.

The tablet comes with an ARM Cortex A8 SoC clocked at 1GHz and 256MB RAM, the same as the first generation iPad. Its 7-inch capacitive screen has a resolution of 800x480 pixels, the same as most mainstream Android smartphones on the market.

Archos' Arnova 10 Android tablet goes on sale

Announced in February, the 'flagship' of Archos' Arnova line of cheapo Android tablets has now become available for purchase, priced as low as $187.66. This device runs Android 2.1 (Eclair) and is powered by a Rockchip RK2818 processor.

Archos 9 tablet gets an SSD upgrade

Archos is clearly one of the brand names that manages to offer affordable tablets, with a lot of products priced in the 200-400 $ range, thus cheaper than the iPad and any other competing products. Of course Archos tablets are not the best you can get for the money, but you do get considerably better products than those no name Android tablets. One of the older models, the Archos 9, a 9 inch tablet as the name suggests, recently got a small upgrade in terms of performance: a 32 GB SSD drive.