Archos unveils Gen10 XS Android tablets with Surface-style keyboard
Summary: Like Microsoft's Surface, Archos's upcoming Android tablets come with magnetic covers that have a keyboard and dock stand integrated inside. Here's a hands-on look at the 10.1-inch model.
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While there is no camera on the rear of the device (the Archos spokesman suggested no one liked using a camera on the rear of a 10-inch tablet) there is a front-facing 720p camera for video calling.
Colour options for the 101 XS are limited to just 'Iced Steel'.
Image credit: Ben Woods
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Surface style??
Surface is a concept. This is real.
No ship date.
No price.
Can't be had for review.
Archos:
Has a firm ship date
Has a price
Is in reviewers hands
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Archos
Calm down
Absolutely
Notice how nobody is responding to your silly sarcastic post?
Posting the same in every discussion won't get you any brownie points.
Do something more worthwhile with your life.
Boors on parade
Did you notice the first comment? It's a highly critical, mean-spirited posting that gratuitously calls the product in question "craptastic" and further asserts that it will break within two weeks, on the basis of no data. He is then assisted by a sock puppet who defends him and further states that the product "looks like a piece of shit."
This is exactly the sort of rude, boorish behavior we have all come to expect from fans of the, erm, Surface. The corporate culture of that place is that of a neighborhood thug, and you can see it on display every day, right here.
A bit trigger happy?
So somone doesn't like the archos tablet, does that mean they are trying to promote microsoft?
Well consider that "droidheads" heads out there
Archos announced the keyboard before Surface
Gen10 XS or Windows ReTard ?
At the end of the day and at the end of the year, you'll still have a loser
at the end of 10 years
Android market share in the meantime soared to around 50% (counting kindles and other android based tablets).
Give me a loser Android any day over a Windows ReTard
Hoping is not going to make it happen, and, your boorish and fanboyish
MS has designed and produced some very great products over time, and there have always been detractors, like you, who, no matter how successful MS has been, in the past or in current history, always continue predicting and hoping for failure with anything that MS does. No doubt you had the same predictions and the same hate for anything Microsoft for many years, and, if you were to have been correct in any way, Microsoft would have been dead some 10 or 15 years ago. Guess what, they're still with us, and far stronger than ever, and in your face. ;)
are you a psychoanalyst?
Better products are wining, there is nothing wrong, Adorno, get over it. Is just a competitive market in motion. As I said, Microsoft is not used to compete based on quality. Their strategy is based on market control. They took the desktop, but is not happening in the mobile space. Frankly, this is good news.
You're still in denial about the marketplace,
In fact, when it comes to product lines, Microsoft is much better positioned for the future, and even the short-term future. Apple still has the basic 3 products in its line-up, and, if any one of them falters, then, it's taps for the market-cap and the illusion that is Apple. If any one service or product from Microsoft were to fail, Microsoft would just get a sore throat and recover from it quickly, whereas, with Apple, if the iPhone were to start losing big marketshare, Apple would become what they were 10-15 years ago, basically, irrelevant.
There is no need to psychoanalyze anything, since, you and others like you are simple to predict with your unending pronouncements of Microsoft's failures and Microsoft being a dinosaur, and Microsoft becoming irrelevant and dying. Yet, they remain the most significant tech company in the world, by far. If Apple were to suddenly disappear from the tech world, people would notice, but, they'd easily continue with their merry lives. If MS disappeared, economies all over the world would feel huge hits and IT heads all over, would have to reconstruct their departments, and consumers would feel very lost. With Apple, most of what would happen, is people shrugging their shoulders. Apple is in a far more risky situation than even Google or the likes of HP and Dell and other tech companies. Just one product failure by Apple, would send the stock tumbling, and the company would soon after have to stop stockholders from breaking down the doors.
Hundreds of thousands of apps!
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Honestly, this is an expensive Toy! Skip it