Stereo speakers: I rarely listen to music on my touch without a speaker-bay, but you can with the Archos. It has built-in stereo speakers that were surprisingly clear and louder than many notebooks sold today. Battery life: The Archos web site states 39 hours of music or 10 hours of video at low backlight.
The iPod touch states on their web site 36 hours of music and 6 hours of video. The following widgets were pre-installed: weather, contacts vcards , calculator, currency converter, RSS reader, note taker, and a unit measurement converter.
Well, besides games, you may not, but isnt the iTunes App Store fun? But on the Archos I got them more often, particularly while using the Movie content service: CinemaNow is the only major provider where you can rent or buy movies.
I am sick of it and I protest. Time to internet from standby: When I use devices like the iPod touch or the Archos, I use it sporadically, sending it automatically into sleep. It can play back video files with resolutions as high as p and at 30 frames per second, although playback can get a little jerky with large files.
Performance We've already covered the shortcomings of this tablet's keyboard, the slow response of the touch screen, and some of the user-interface quirks, so let's dive in to some of the other real-world issues the affect its performance. The two pillar features of the Archos 7 Home Tablet are Web browsing and e-mail, both of which are provided though Android.
Like most features of the tablet, these apps only work in landscape view, which is sometimes inconvenient, but mostly forgivable in light of the large screen.
Its Wi-Fi support is limited to Connected to our office The same test on the San Francisco Chronicle's news site took 41 seconds on the Archos 7, 44 seconds on an iPod Touch, and 19 seconds on the iPad. Though the Apple iPad costs more than what you'll pay for the Archos 7 Home Tablet, we think it's fair to say it affords more than double the download speed.
Another quirk of the Archos 7 Home Tablet's Web browser that even experienced Android fans will have to adjust to is the lack of pinch or double-tap zoom control. Touching a Web page brings up icons for zooming in or out of the page, but tapping or pinching the page does nothing. It may seem like a minor complaint, but in spite of the tablet's relatively large screen, we still found ourselves needing to zoom in and out frequently.
The lack of a gesture-controlled zoom function is one more way that the Web experience on the Archos 7 Home Tablet is fairly sluggish. Setting up e-mail on the Archos is smooth as can be. After downloading your unread messages, the e-mail app is just about the snappiest app on the entire device.
Unfortunately, two problems plague this particular execution of the Android e-mail app. The first issue, as we mentioned before, is the onscreen keyboard's cramped spacebar, slow response, and lack of predictive text and multitouch support. The other major drawback to using the Archos 7 Home Tablet as an e-mail machine is the lack of a contacts directory. Unless you're simply replying to incoming mail, composing a new mail from scratch requires you to type the recipient's e-mail manually for every message.
Aside from the larger screen of the Archos, we found the similarly priced iPod Touch and its integrated contacts database to be a more efficient way to compose and manage e-mails while away from a smartphone or computer. The Archos tablet's music and video playback performance isn't too shabby. Its media format support is better than many of the portable media players we've tested and the large screen works nicely to present it all.
It's also worth noting that all volume control is handled by two awkward onscreen buttons one for increasing volume and the other for turning it down. Video playback is also encumbered with the same awkward volume controls, and it has poor viewing angles when the device is tilted forward or backward. Video playback is also one of the surest ways to kill battery life, which Archos generously rates at 42 hours of music playback or 7 hours of video.
Those best-case ratings were achieved with the tablet's screen set on low backlight and may not account for Wi-Fi activity. With Wi-Fi active and the backlight set midway, our unofficial tests found roughly 3 to 4 hours of constant general use--browsing the Web, checking e-mail, playing video--on a full charge. Donald Bell. Its resistive touch screen is clunky, the processor is sluggish, storage is skimpy, and basic buttons for home screen and volume control are missing. There's no support for Adobe Flash, Bluetooth, GPS, video output, accelerometer, digital compass, and multitouch, and previous Archos tablet accessories are incompatible.
App support is hit or miss--mostly miss. The Archos 7 Home Tablet isn't going to amaze you with its specs or features, but its low price and core Android features--Web, e-mail, media playback--make it a workable iPad alternative.
Photo gallery: Archos 7 Home Tablet. Score Breakdown Design 5 Features 5 Performance 5.
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