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Archos builds Family Pad with Android 4
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The French manufacturer Archos tablet attempts at the target group family: After his Arnova tablet series already presented for the Child Pad Small, Family comes a pad on the shelves.
After the child pad, a vessel equipped with all the finesse 7-inch model for the next generation, Archos now bringing out a 13-inch cars with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on board. The Family Pad falls into the still very exclusive league of 13-inch Tablets: Only the Toshiba Excite 13 waiting patiently until now the competition. The resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels Family Pad coming in a month or two for around 300 euros in the trade.
Inside the unit is a 1 GHz faster Allwinner A10 ARM Cortex A8 processor with only one core is doing his service, plus there is 1 GB of RAM and a Mali 400 MP GPU. The internal memory of the Family Pad is 8 GB in size. Two USB ports, a mini HDMI port and a microSD card slot to help the tablet to provide sufficient data connectivity, plus two cameras are on the front and back with two-megapixel resolution. According to the manufacturer of the battery hold eight to ten hours when looking videos, and five to six hours when surfing the Internet.
The data are not great, but should be enough for the not-too-ambitious use in the family: The manufacturer is specifically aimed at this target group, and emphasizes that his tablet for multimedia applications and Internet Entertainment is ideally suited. Friends elaborate games and other demanding applications on the other hand should look for a more powerful androids.
Update: According to the German press contacts is not yet known if or when the Familiy pad also comes on the market in Germany.