14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that MWC 2011 wasn't where all new tablets were released, as CeBIT is seeing its own share of such mobile electronics, one of which was revealed by Archos, alongside an e-reader.
As consumers know, quite a few tablets have been, so far, revealed or outright unleashed upon the consumer market.
Most of them are based on an ARM platform, like the NVIDIA Tegra 2, and feature a version of Google's Android OS, 3.0 (Honeycomb) being the latest and most popular.
That said, quite a few such products were released during the 2011 edition of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, last month.
Now, at CeBIT, in Hannover, Germany, Archos put on display a certain 8-inch slate dubbed Arnova 8, in addition to an e-book reader.
The tablet has a display size of 8 inches and resistive touchscreen support, while the inside of the tablet boasts 4 GB of flash storage space and a Rockchip RK2818 processor.
With just Android 2.1 to show for itself, the product is far from most any other slate out there, but it does have a much lower price as well. It will sell for 129 Euro when it starts selling, in about three weeks, a far cry form the Motorola XOOM's $800 price tag.
Meanwhile, consumers can check out the 7-inch Archos 7ob e-book reader, which has just as much storage as the Arnova and an SD card slot.
The e-reader also features multimedia support and a battery that can last for up to10 hours, or 7 hours of video playback.
Other specs include a mini USB port, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and the ability to read PDF and EPUB e-book files, among other things.
The 7-inch 7ob will start shipping around the same time as the Arnova tablet and for the same price.