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Archos G9 101 video review

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Without a doubt, this is the most capable Android Honeycomb video player currently available. Format support is excellent, the screen's decent and battery life compares fairly well with more expensive tablets. The power's there too - its dual-core 1GHz processor able to handle high bit-rate 1080p content with ease. What's wrong, then? It's the design. The plastic body just doesn't feel as nice as any of the pricier models, and several on-body bits get in the way while you're holding it. When it's just £60 cheaper than glossier tabs, you really need to care about its advanced video skills for it to be a good buy. Read full review

Overall

6/10

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Andrew Williams

By Andrew Williams
Reviewed 24 October 2011
Updated 16 March 2012

Price as reviewed

£249.99

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    • 1: Design, Connectivity and Comfort
    • 2: Android Gingerbread, Apps and...
    • 3: Screen, Touchscreen and Usability
    • 4: Music, Video, Battery Life and Verdict
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Awards

Archos G9 101 details

Battery Life
8/10
Design
5/10
Features
8/10
Performance
5/10
Value
7/10
Overall
6/10

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Reasonable screen
  • Superb video support
  • Decent value

Cons

  • Unattractive
  • Intermittently buggy

Price as reviewed

£249.99

Manufacturer

Archos

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Luan Bach

1:59 PM on 30 June, 2011

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Any idea of how much RAM in the G9 devices ? One big contributor to the G8 devices feeling very sluggish is the 256MB of RAM they have. Not to mention just 256MB of Flash space for applications.

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@Luan Bach

Archos are not saying:

http://www.archos.com/products/gen9/specs.html?country=us&lang=en

and I note that that question is being posed in Archos forums by fans of their devices and the said fans are getting a bit irritated by Archos' coyness on the issue.
I have to say that I am interested in this tab but not if the producer is not prepared to come clean on *all* the specs.

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10:30 AM on 25 October, 2011

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Disappointing but fair review I think. We've got he G9 80 in the office for development purposes and all of the software glitches and build quality problems mentioned here applied to it as well. Especially the touch "deadness", it annoyed the hell out of me when trying to do page turns and typing as it regularly missed touches. It also has a real problem coming out of "deep sleep" mode as Archos calls it, the device seems to have crashed every time so far for me and required a hard reset. Considering that this happened on the G8 as well I guess Archos developers have not learned their lessons.

The 4:3 aspect ratio is better though for reading pdf and comics. Though it gave me eye strain after a couple of hours. I wish manufacturers would make a large screen eink device.

Our G9 80 has a the common problem with "screen ripples" that is affecting the G9 80. Does it exist on the G9 101 too ?

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7:36 PM on 26 October, 2011

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this looks much better than the old version, would it be possible to plug a normal USB memory stick in to the 3G dongle socket and use it for additional storage instead of the actual 3g dongle? just a thought!

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