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Archos 70 8GB Internet Tablet, Slim and Light Android, 7 inch Touch Screen (501582)

Part #: 501582   UPC: 690590515826
Archos 70 8GB Internet Tablet, Slim and Light Android, 7 inch Touch Screen (501582)
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Slim and light Android™ internet tablet
At home and on the go. The slim and light design of the ARCHOS 70 internet tablet makes it both portable and generous for sharing your best moments with your family and friends. All the functions of a computer: your apps, the Internet, your photos, music and videos, eBooks and 3D games. 


Features

Best design ever

How can this high resolution 7” multi touch screen fit into such a slim and light tablet ?

Connected Android™ tablet

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

 

Up to 250GB* : the best portable HD** video playback experience anywhere

The ARCHOS 70 internet tablet has a wide 7” high resolution touchscreen and thus guarantees an unequalled comfort of view for movies and TV shows in HD quality

 

Built-in webcam and microphone

Have video chats, film important moments of your life and share them on the Internet or display them on TV with the built-in HDMI connection.

 

A revolutionary tablet 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

Slim and light design

How can the ARCHOS 70 internet tablet be so slim and so light? Both Flash and Hard drive models’ design are extra light and flat thanks to its patented technology with overmoulded stainless steel structure: 10 mm (0.43 inch) and only 300 g (11 oz) for the Flash model, making it so easy to fit in your handbag or your briefcase.

 

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 wide7” touchscreen combined with a g-sensor lets you experience a never-seen-before viewing quality. The 800 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 70 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 70 internet tablet via 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 70 internet tablet hasSamba 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 70 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.

 

 

Up to 250GB* : the best portable HD** video playback experience anywhere

The ARCHOS 70 internet tablet has a wide 7” high resolution touchscreen and thus guarantees an unequalled comfort of view for movies and TV shows in HD quality. 

* 1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity is less.
** Maximum resolution = 1280 x 720 pixels

 

 

Good vibrations

The ARCHOS 70 internet tabletboasts 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 70 internet tabletplays all the music formats you’ll need to keep your digital music experience as simple as it should be.

 

 

Sublime quality for your pictures

If you’re more into personal photos, why not open the new Gallery application and show your latest vacation to your friends or even share them via a wireless network.

 

 

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Tablet PC

Real Web

 

Connect the ARCHOS 70 internet tablet to your WiFi network and you will be able to do just about everything that you do on your home PC, wherever you are. You will be able to surf the full web, not a scaled-down mobile version of the Internet thanks to Flash 10™** support which let you access to all your favorite websites.

 

 

You’ll benefit from a full width and superfast display of the web pages with the high resolution screen (800 x 480 pixels) and the high-speed processor running at 1 GHz. The browsing experience is made even more intuitive with the Android™ browser. Tap a part of the text that you’re interested in and the display will be automatically resized to the paragraph you want to read. 
You can also easily check your emails at any moment with the Android™ email client which gives you the possibility to manage all your email accounts (Gmail, Yahoo!, etc).

3D graphics accelerator

The ARCHOS 70 internet tablet feature agraphical 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 AndroidTM 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 70 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 •  Flash Serie: 8 GB**** flash memory + Micro SD Slot (SDHC compatible)
Display characteristics • High resolution screen, WVGA 800 x 480 pixels, 7'' TFT LCD, 16 million colors
• Capacitive multitouch screen
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 • MP3 CBR & VBR 
• WMA, WMA-Pro 5.1
• WAV (PCM/ADPCM) 
• AAC, AAC+ 5.13
• OGG Vorbis
• FLAC

With optional software plug-ins (downloadable on www.archos.com):
• AC3 5.1
Photo viewer4 JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF
Subtitles Support subtitles files with .srt, .ssa, .smi, .sub extensions
Webcam Yes
Pre-installed applications • Aldiko, Ebuddy, Wikipedia, Avecomics, HubKap, Deezer, Mewbox, Raging Thunderlite (a 3D car demo game), WordNewspaper, Touiteur, Fring
Interfaces • USB 2.0: Mass Storage Class (MSC) 
• Micro SD (SDHC compatible) on flash version
• USB Host: Mass Storage Class (MSC) (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 speakers 
• Built-in leg stand 
• Built-in Microphone 
• G-sensor
• Front VGA Camera
Power source • Internal: Lithium Polymer battery
• External: Power adapter/charger
Battery life • Music playback time6: up to 36 hours
• Video playback time6: up to 7 hours
• Web surfing6: up to 10 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 • ARCHOS 70 internet tablet Flash series: 201 x 114 x 10 mm – 300 grams / (7.91 x 4.49 x 0.43 - 11 oz)

Minimum system requirements • Microsoft® Windows® XP, Vista, 7 or higher 
• Mac
• Linux 
• USB 2.0 interface
Package includes ARCHOS 70 internet tablet, earphones, Standard USB cable, Quick Start Guide (QSG), legal and safety notice, power charger.


* 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 70 internet tablet
  • earphones
  • Standard USB cable
  • Quick Start Guide (QSG)
  • legal and safety notice
  • power charger.

Warranty

Brand new retail box,
1 Year Manufacture Warranty
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