Archos 101 G9 Tablet Up for Order Now

Another day, another set of tablet news it seems, Archos being, this once, the one to sit back and watch the marketing performance of a 10-inch touchscreen-based device.

Archos may not be the first company to say it will join in on the tablet craze, and it isn't going to be the last one either (probably).

What the company can say at the moment, though, is that it is the latest to start shipping its electronic.

Said electronic carries the name of Archos 101 G9 and, like most of its peers (and rivals), measures 10 inches in diagonal.

Speaking of the screen, it has a native resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels and a capacitive touch panel.

As for what lies on the inside, all hardware components are built around a dual-core processor, whose speed is of 1 GHz (per core).

8 GB of storage are present, not at all on par with the 16 GB, 32 GB or even 64 GB of other devices of this type.

Then again, the Archos 101 G9 does sell for only $370, which is about the same as 271.40 Euro, based on exchange rates.

Not that European prices actually reflect exchange rates much (to give a sort of point of reference, $499 tablets sell at $479 Euro or so, for the most part).

That sum of money will also net the Android 3.2 operating system (Honeycomb OS), a forward-facing camera, HDMI connectivity and wireless support (Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi).

Prospective buyers needn't wait any longer, since the device is available for order now, though this official web page.

At some point in the future (hopefully soon), Archos will, or should, also offer a version with a hard disk drive of 250 GB. It falls to users to decide whether to buy an 8 GB one now or wait until then.