Archos just released a 7″ Gaming tablet, the Archos Gamepad, it’s pretty awesome.

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Make sure the complaints aren’t for the 8th gen or earlier models.  No one has really tested the new 9th gen models yet. 

Though it could be the firmware may not be optimized yet.  Archos can be a little slow with updates but should eventually clear up any issues that may be there at release.

Watch the updates though as Archos seems to be against rooting and the update may block or make hard to perform some of the popular methods.

The TI OMAP 4 is an excellent performer though and has gotten great reviews on other devices, so overall it should be an excellent tablet and quite a big update to the last gen offerings. 

I just hope they provide more than just the 8″ and 10.1″ models as I liked the range offered by the 8th gen release and hope they continue offering that wide range of options.

http://tablets-planet.com/2011/07/18/archos-just-bumped-up-the-prices-on-their-unreleased-gen-9-tablets/

They haven’t even been released and the prices are bumped up ?  C’mon people…get real…..if Archos wants to jump into the first tier….it will have to do it on price-per-feature basis, and THEN build up better cred ( questionable other than the small minority of staunchly archosian fans ). 

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again…..

$299 – 10.1 / 16Gb / 1Gb RAM unit with front/rear cameras, and expandability….capacitive, of course.  <– Get us a tablet in at THAT PRICE. (3G modem do-hicky….superfluous….it's knowing that over 98% of the market is for WiFi only usage…..concentrate on that….get THAT, right.) Then worry about anything else.

The company who gets a mass produced, good build quality unit like that, into the hands of people….will leap-frog EVERYONE else. 

Worldwide. Although some countries can more easily get to them in stores than others, you can always buy over the Internet.

I don’t think it’s laggy at all, it’s probably feeling faster at web browsing than any Tegra2 device, especially on loading big websites with a lot of flash, a lot of HTML5 javascripts and such. I think battery will be as good as any other device. iPad2 for example may or may not have a bigger/heavier battery, may not have a brighter screen and runs a slower processor. So I think if they can do 6-7 hours for active video playback and heavy web browsing also with 3G then it’s pretty good.

I’m pretty sure it will. AT&T is pretty much compatible with any other HSDPA dongle and phone isn’t it? The thing is, perhaps AT&T do not allow any device to connect.

The more likely scenario in the US though is Archos might need specific deal with one or several of the carriers. I for example think MetroPCD, Virgin Mobile, Sprint, one of those could perhaps make Archos release a specific G9 dongle for one of their CDMA networks, and you hopefully could then get data on that at $25/month/3GB or so, perhaps also less money for less data or less time to use it.

The thing is, I don’t know if you can just use any device on AT&T and T-Mobile in the USA, I don’t know if they even provide unlocked devices and unlocked SIM card support.