If you are curious to find out what is Archos and its objectives, you should start taking in account the small French company. Archos was an Android pioneer, unfortunately couldn't manage to reach popularity similar to Samsung, but through Archos 97 promises to take its place in gadgets' arena.
Archos 97 Titanium HD, French Touch
First of all, Archos 97 appearance will make you think of iPad, but it's not an Apple creation, it's a pure Android tablet designed for HD performance, protected by a titanium design. Apple prefers to embrace a more conservative 4:3 format, while the latter prefer the multimedia-oriented widescreen panels. However, French consumer electronics company twins the two points of view, creating an Android tablet with an iPad 4-like display.
Archos 97 Titanium HD tablet features a 9.7-inch IPS display with 10 point multitouch and a resolution of 2048 x 1536. It's enhanced by a 1.6GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal memory, alongside a microSD card slot that can extend the storage capacity to 64GB. The tablet runs on Jelly Bean (Android 4.1.), plus OfficeSuite Viewer 6 and Archos-branded Media Center suite, creating even links for your tablet to connect with a TV. Unfortunately, the so far magical tablet includes decent cameras, a 5MP back-facing camera with autofocus and a 2MP front-facing one.
Archos didn't provide any pricing information at the time of writing this article, but I'm positive it won't surpass Nexus 10 or similar affordable Android tablets.
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