A pre Cebit show German Archos press release states that the Archos 8 Home Tablet 4gb is for sale in May at 149 Euros:-
"ARCHOS 8 Home Tablet
With a large 8-inch touch screen makes the "ARCHOS 8 Home Tablet" primarily for surfing the Internet for web services and video playback.The Home Tablet can also be used as a digital picture frame.
With only 12 mm in height and less than 400 grams of weight, is the "ARCHOS 8" a product that can be used as a digital picture frame and as a mobile video player or Internet browser.
The "ARCHOS 8 Home Tablet" will be available from May 2010 with 4 GB to a suggested retail price of 149 euros."
DataMind inadvertently released news of the 'foetal' Archos 7 Android (codename A70K) on January 27th 2010. The previous day DataMind had received a Powerpoint file from an Archos distributor. The distributor had been given the file by an unnamed person who had failed to explain to the distributor that the Archos 7 Android Powerpoint was in fact under embargo until Cebit.
On the 28th January Archos UK phoned DataMind and requested we pull the news from our site because, as DataMind then learnt, the information was under embargo. DataMind immediately acceded to their request. But by this time the Archos 7 Android news, via ArchosFans, was in the Blogosphere and reported by Stuff.tv, Crunchgear, Carrypad, Wirefresh, T3, Engadget, Gizmodo, i4u, imp3.net (japanese) and cnetfrance (french) amongst other bloggers.
Entirely coincidently and perhaps fortuitously on 27th February Apple iPad was announced worldwide by Steve Jobs. As people were discussing the WiFi iPad specs they were also comparing it to the less expensive Archos 7 Android that was 'leaked' the same day! The iPad 16gb has a 9.7" diagonal screen with 1GHz, WiFi & Bluetooth and a slated £350 - over twice the price of Archos 7 Home Tablet.
Originally DataMind posted the news on ArchosFans.com on 27 January but the Archos 7 Android news spread like wildfire on the internet so we had hundreds of links to "DataMind "Archos 7 Android"" within a week and 19,000 links to the officially unannounced "Archos 7 Android". If a leak was to occur any Archos PR machine couldn't have paid for a better timing of Archos 7 Android 'leaked news'!
Now 6 weeks later Archos shows the device at the huge Cebit Germany show - the Archos 7 Home Tablet was 'born' on 2nd March 2010. The Archos UK site also features the product.
Archos 7 Home Tablet image courtesy of Archos via cnet.com
At 2 minutes Charbax (probably the worlds greatest exponent of Archos devices!) does a great job of explaining why the Archos 7 Home Tablet 2gb at £130 inc.vat ($179/Euro 149) is 20% less expensive than the equivalent Archos 5 Internet Tablet Android.
DataMind sells the 8gb Archos 5 Internet Tablet for £200 inc.vat. Assuming a gb costs an extra £6 you'd expect a 2gb model to sell for £165. The Archos 7 Home Tablet uses a slower 600 mhz processor (ARM 9 Rockchip 2808 processor running at 600 mhz) than the faster 800mhz processor used in the Archos 5 Internet Tablet (OMAP 3440 ARM Cortex A8 800mhz).
DataMind sell the Archos 7 Home Tablet for £130 - thats 20% (£35) less than an equivalent Archos 5 Internet Tablet but with a screen size increased from 5" to 7" diagonal.
JKK Mobile reviews Archos 7 Home Tablet from Cebit too:-
