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Archos 43 16GB Internet Tablet Connected android, Palm-sized Tablet (501578)

Part #: 501578   UPC: 690590515789
Archos 43 16GB Internet Tablet Connected android, Palm-sized Tablet (501578)
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A connected Android™ palm-sized tablet
A simple tap. Just a simple tap on the home screen of the ARCHOS 43 internet tablet and you’ll be accessing all the major functions you need throughout the day wherever you are: HD video playback, HD camcorder, apps, emails and full Internet browsing. It’s as simple as a tap. 


Features

Ultimate sleek design

An incredibly thin device with beautifully rounded lines, this device sports a large 4.3” touchscreen and g-sensor.

Connected Android™ tablet

A connected mobile device with a sublime user interface, 3D graphics accelerator and WiFi connectivity.

The best portable HD* video playback experience anywhere

The large and sharp 4.3” high resolution touchscreen guarantees an unequalled comfort of view for movies and TV shows in HD quality.

Built-in HD* camcorder

With the ARCHOS 43 internet tablet, whether you’re indoors or outdoors, you can film or take pictures of your friends or family at any time in HD quality (max. video resolution 1280 x 720 pixel). Once you’ve got your photos and videos, you can create a slideshow with the Photoframe application or watch your videos directly on the device. Better yet, upload your videos to Youtube™ or Facebook™ to show them to the world.

A revolutionary pocket computer with built-in WiFi

The Web browsing experience with the Android™ browser is intuitive and complete thanks to Flash 10™** compatibility. Get the latest news, send both personal and professional emails and chat with your friends.

Your own world of Android™ applications

Play the latest 3D games with the OpenGL 3D graphic acceleration, check news and social networks plus add hundreds more applications via the AppsLib store.

Design

The ultimate sleek design

Experience a new form of design with the ARCHOS 43 internet tablet. How can the ARCHOS 43 internet tablet be so slim and so light? Thanks to its patented technology with overmoulded stainless steel structure : 9 mm (0.4 inch) and only 130 g (4.6 oz) making it so easy to fit in your pocket. Its design is also about seduction. Its beautiful rounded lines make it a real delight for the eyes and its shape is designed to fit perfectly in your hand. But what would this magnificent object be without a brilliant screen?

The leg stand

You can comfortably enjoy your movies or TV shows using the leg stand to prop it up on your lap or table.

High-resolution screen

The large 4.3” touchscreen with g-sensor lets you experience a never-seen-before viewing quality. The 854 x 480 pixels high-resolution display is so sharp that you can fully enjoy your pictures’ smallest details. In addition to the HD resolution, the 16:9 format is just perfect for rendering all your videos in the best quality.

Media

Connected | Multimedia
Connected

Android™

Android™ is the application framework developed by Google for connected mobile devices, coming with a full pack of connected apps such as a web browser and email application. The 5 home screens of the Android user interface allow advanced personalization: icons can be placed, moved or erased with just a flick of a finger. Thanks to the home screen widgets, users can instantly access their favorite applications.

Android™ on TV

Basically, this is what you see on your product screen, but ten times bigger. With its TV output, the ARCHOS 43 internet tablet displays every Android™ sceen on your wide screen TV*. You can then browse your files or the Internet from your couch. And guess how immersed in your 3D games you could be using the device as a steering-wheel! This is just staggering!

Tethering (Using your portable phone as a modem)

Want to be connected anywhere? Just plug your mobile phone equipped with 3.5 G & Bluetooth™ technology, simply pair it up to your ARCHOS 43 internet tabletvia Bluetooth™ or even via USB cable. This will give you easy access to Internet directly on your device anytime and anywhere. There’s no need to pay an extra fee when you already have a data service plan***.

Home Streaming from your PC

The ARCHOS 43 internet tablet has Samba and UPnP protocols: this means that you play your movies, videos, and photos on your ARCHOS, but these files are really located on your computer in another room. You don’t need to store everything on your ARCHOS to enjoy viewing it on your ARCHOS! Your files fly through the air over WiFi. The ARCHOS 43 internet tablet is the small and convenient portable computer that you’ve always dreamed about.

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Multimedia

Unique Android™ Multimedia Applications

On top of Android’s latest version, ARCHOS, still at the forefront of innovation, brings you exclusive applications: The internet tablets feature music, video and photo applications, developed by ARCHOS, that enrich the user experience with smooth browsing through the album covers and with widgets added to the home screen to give instant access and control to media. These unique Android™ applications allow users to amplify their digital experience. One of these functions, 3D album cover application, allows you to glide through your music by album covers. You can also make your own music playlists or browse your songs and music by favorites, recently played or recently added. 

Because you want to enjoy your videos and TV shows without re-encoding them with complicated software, ARCHOS makes your life easier by supporting audio and video formats beyond the standard ones of Android™. It can even display subtitles and alternate audio tracks, all you have to do is drag, drop, and play! 

What other functions were created for you? An internet connected Photo frame application with 3D transitions, and the ability to sync your pictures with your Facebook©, Picasa© or Flickr© account.

 

The best portable HD* video playback experience anywhere

ARCHOS, the recognized expert in portable video devices offers you yet again the latest innovations in terms of video playback. Benefit from an unequalled comfort of view on a hand held device with the large and sharp 4.3” touchscreen. With the industry’s widest range of supported video formats, you’ll be sure to enjoy all your movies or TV shows, even those in HD quality*. Also, it’s simple to share your movies with your friends or family on your home TV in HD quality thanks to the built-in HDMI output connector (HDMI cable in option). 

* Maximum resolution = 1280 x 720 pixels

 

Built-in HD* camcorder

With the ARCHOS 43 internet tablet, whether you’re indoors or outdoors, you can film or take pictures of your friends or family at any time in HD quality (max. video resolution 1280 x 720 pixel). Once you’ve got your photos and videos, you can create a slideshow with the Photoframe application or watch your videos directly on the device. Better yet, upload your videos to Youtube™ or Facebook™ to show them to the world.

 

Good vibrations

The ARCHOS 43 internet tablet has a new music application adding 3D cover animation support and the ability to add a mini music widget to the home screen, in order to control your music at any time. And as it is an ARCHOS music player, the ARCHOS 43 internet tablet is able to play all the music formats you’ll need to keep your digital music experience as simple as it should be.

 

Sublime quality for your pictures

Browse through your photos with a simple flick of your finger or play a slideshow of your last vacation with music and transition effects. You can even display the pictures that your friends uploaded to Facebook™ or other photo sharing websites. The high resolution screen perfectly reproduces each picture in such detail that you can easily zoom in to see the tiniest of details, there's no limit.

* Maximum resolution = 1280 x 720 pixels

 

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Real Web

On top of Android’s latest version, ARCHOS, still at the forefront of innovation, brings you exclusive applications: The internet tablets feature music, video and photo applications, developed by ARCHOS, that enrich the user experience with smooth browsing through the album covers and with widgets added to the home screen to give instant access and control to media. These unique Android™ applications allow users to amplify their digital experience. One of these functions, 3D album cover application, allows you to glide through your music by album covers. You can also make your own music playlists or browse your songs and music by favorites, recently played or recently added. 

Because you want to enjoy your videos and TV shows without re-encoding them with complicated software, ARCHOS makes your life easier by supporting audio and video formats beyond the standard ones of Android™. It can even display subtitles and alternate audio tracks, all you have to do is drag, drop, and play! 

What other functions were created for you? An internet connected Photo frame application with 3D transitions, and the ability to sync your pictures with your Facebook©, Picasa© or Flickr© account.

 

ARCHOS, the recognized expert in portable video devices offers you yet again the latest innovations in terms of video playback. Benefit from an unequalled comfort of view on a hand held device with the large and sharp 4.3” touchscreen. With the industry’s widest range of supported video formats, you’ll be sure to enjoy all your movies or TV shows, even those in HD quality*. Also, it’s simple to share your movies with your friends or family on your home TV in HD quality thanks to the built-in HDMI output connector (HDMI cable in option). 

* Maximum resolution = 1280 x 720 pixels

3D graphics accelerator

The ARCHOS 43 internet tablet feature a graphical accelerator (3D OpenGL ES 2.0) to exploit Android™ 3D capabilities such as 3D games, animated interface with live wallpapers and transitions effects. You will be also able to enjoy the Android™ interface on your TV screen via the HDMI output. Discover a new way to play games on TV, your device becomes your gamepad.

Google search

All your searches are done in a simple tap on the Google search bar which can be placed anywhere on one of the 5 screens of the Android™ interface.

 

 

Applications

AppsLib

Just tap the Appslib icon on the home screen of the ARCHOS 43 internet tablet to immediately discover a large choice of Android™ apps to download for the widest variety of needs you might have. It's so easy and quick.

Application

Want to check the weather, the latest news, your social network account or read ebooks? Simply select the app and it will be available in a couple of seconds.

Games

Additionally, this product has a superfast CPU with OpenGL 3D graphic acceleration and a g-sensor to offer you excellent performance for playing the latest 3D games found on the Appslib.

Specs

Product capacity •  Internal: 8 & 16 GB**** flash memory 
•  External: Micro SD Slot (SDHC compatible)
Display characteristics High resolution touch screen, 480x854 pixels (FWVGA), 4.3'' TFT LCD, 16 million colors
Application Framework Android 2.2 Froyo7
Processor • ARM Cortex A8 at 1 GHz with DSP 
• Graphic accelerator: 3D OpenGL ES 2.0
Video Playback1 • MPEG-42 HD (up to 720p, 30 fps@6Mbps)
• MPEG-42 (ASP@L5 AVI, up to DVD resolution, 30 fps@8Mbps)
• H.264 HD (HP@L3.1 up to 720p, 30 fps@5Mbps)
• WMV9/VC1 (AP up to 720p 30 fps@10Mbps)
• M-JPEG (Motion JPEG Video) in VGA resolution

With optional plug-in (downloadable on www.archos.com):
• Cinema: MPEG-2 (up to DVD resolution MP/D1, 30 fps@10 Mbps)
With the above codecs, the device can play video files with the following extensions: AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, MPG, PS, TS, VOB, FLV, RM, RMVB, ASF, 3GP
Audio Playback1 • Stereo MP3 CBR & VBR 
• WMA, WAV (PCM/ADPCM), AAC3
• AAC+ stereo audio files
• OGG Vorbis
• FLAC

With optional software plug-ins (downloadable on www.archos.com):
• AC3 stereo audio
Photo viewer4 JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF
Subtitles Support subtitles files with .srt, .ssa, .smi, .sub extensions, MKV / VOB embedded subtitles
Video recording & picture taking • HD Camcorder: 2 MP - recording format: 720p H264 / AAC .MP4
Pre-installed applications • Webbrowser, Email, Contacts, Appslib, Twitter, Wikipedia, Weather Channel, Ebuddy, Deezer, Mewbox (UK), Napster (US), Racing Thunderlight, Weather Channel, World Newspaper
Interfaces • USB 2.0 Device
• USB 2.0 Host: Mass Storage Class (MSC) and Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) (adapter micro B/A sold separately)
• HDMI output5 (Mini HDMI / HDMI cable sold separately)
Communication protocols • WiFi (802.11 b/g/n)
• Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
Miscellaneous • Built-in speaker 
• Built-in leg stand 
• Built-in Microphone 
• G-sensor
Power source • Internal: Lithium Polymer battery
• Device charges via computer USB port
Battery life • Music playback time6: up to 36 hours
• Video playback time6: up to 10 hours
• Web surfing6: up to 12 hours
Scalability • Device automatically downloads latest firmware updates when the WiFi connection is activated
• Updates can also be downloaded at www.archos.com and updated via USB mass storage
Dimensions & weight • 135 x 65 x 9 mm – 5.3” x 2.6” x 0.4”
• 130 grams – 4.6 oz
Minimum system requirements • Microsoft® Windows® XP, Vista, 7 or higher 
• Mac
• Linux 
• USB 2.0 interface
Package includes ARCHOS 43 internet tablet, earphones, Standard USB cable, Quick Start Guide (QSG), legal and safety notice.


* Maximum resolution = 1280 x 720 pixels
** Only available on Android™ 2.2 Froyo 
*** The function of relaying your internet connection may not be authorized by your mobile phone operator or may require a special data plan option. Please refer to your contract. 
**** 1 GB= 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity is less. 
1/ Certain bitrates, resolutions, and/or file variations may not be compatible.
2/ MPEG-4 ASP@L5 AVI (MPEG-4: ISO standard by Moving Picture Experts Group; AVI: audio/video file container by Microsoft) without GMC and Quarter pixel.
3/ Does not read AAC protected files.
4/ Certain resolutions and file sizes may not be compatible.
5/ External video output disabled for Macrovision®-protected contents.
6/ Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. Test run with low backlight.
7/ Available in October 2010 


Included

  • ARCHOS 43 internet tablet
  • earphones
  • Standard USB cable
  • Quick Start Guide (QSG)
  • legal and safety notice.

Warranty

Brand new retail box,
1 Year Manufacture Warranty

 

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