Archos, after surprising many with the announcement that it will be introducing an Android based Internet Media Tablet, has given away
details on when we'll finally be able to get our hands on it.
According
to recently produced financial results, the company is set to launch
the telephony-enabled Android phone in Q3, which means it could very
well land before the previous September release date.
It also
states that it intends to continue in the MP3 player market, something
which the company says is one that 'remains important in volume' to
Archos.
Archos has pledged to keep all of its future segments
(MP3 players, the recent Archos 10 netbook and the forthcoming Android
phone) under €500, which means should the exchange rates settle down we
could be picking up an Archos Android for less than $660.
This is going to be the largest display on an Android phone, unless some company releases a handset larger than 5 inches before the
summer. It certainly will have the largest memory with a whopping 500GB of capacity?
It
will also measure less than 1cm in thickness and still pack a
seven-hour playback time, so we're pretty excited about this device
sporting an OMAP3440 processor based on the ARM Cortex-A8 superscalar
microprocessor.
And keep an eye out for a bigger effort into
mobile TV from the French PMP company... apparently that's going to be
a big focus according to the financial results.
