Archos 101 €199.99

hgm

I bought a Archos 101 16gb today in power city for €199.99. Nice little tablet if your not too fussy. I had a slight problem charging it but working perfectly now.

That is the online price so quote it in store to get it at that price.:D

Gadgetman496

Was it the standard 101 or the 101-G9?

TheSluiceGate

Hey hgm, I'm thinking of buying one too...

Can you use Youtube on it?
What app store can you use on it?

biebiebie

If buying an Archos, I'd highly recommend buying the G9 version. Its a newer model with dual core. Archos have also said that the the G9 devices will be updated to Android 4, aka Ice Cream Sandwich.

Its a decent mid range device in both 7" and 10", and most likely superior to many of the cheaper Chinese tablets floating around.

It also has a good following eg XDA Developers, so future updates and hacking of the device is possible if you're into that aspect.

Might even be tempted by the 7 incher myself Its €234.95 in Powercity

hgm

Hi sorry only seeing this now.Its the g9 version. You can use youtube no bother.It had the android market so you can download 1000's of apps. Have to say no problems so far. Check the prices onl ine before going so you can get them for that price. Also they had the 8gb Archos out on display for €235!! Ask for the 16gb one it's in the glass cabinet and quote the on line price of €199.99.

podgeandrodge

hgm wrote: »

Hi sorry only seeing this now.Its the g9 version.

No it's not.

hgm

podgeandrodge wrote: »

No it's not.

Erm im holding it in my hands and it is indeed. :rolleyes:

concubar

from powercity website

ARCHOS 10" 16GB ANDROID TABLETOnline Price : € 199.95
or
ARCHOS 10" G9 8GB ANDROID 3.2 TABLET € 289.95


cant see g9 16gb for 199

podgeandrodge

hgm wrote: »

Erm im holding it in my hands and it is indeed. :rolleyes:

Then lucky you as some plonker made a mistake in power city!

TheSluiceGate

Lots of sites are saying that flash support (and the android market) can be very easily added to the Archos 101 internet tablet by installing a piece of software called AppsLib: http://appslib.com/

http://www.arctablet.com/blog/featured/adobe-flash-10-3-officially-archos-appslib/

tall chapy

Carphone Warehouse were selling the 10' Archos for €199 today

concubar

tall chapy wrote: »

Carphone Warehouse were selling the 10' Archos for €199 today

101 ?

tall chapy

101? - Not sure, it was in Henry st.

Amalgam

concubar wrote: »

from powercity website

ARCHOS 10" 16GB ANDROID TABLETOnline Price : € 199.95
or
ARCHOS 10" G9 8GB ANDROID 3.2 TABLET € 289.95


cant see g9 16gb for 199

Just for anyone, out of interest, Xtra-Vision have:

ARCHOS 10" G9 8GB ANDROID 3.2 TABLET € 289.95



€259.95 or thereabouts.

There's nothing great about the prices, both of them, but the Xtra-Vision price is *cough* closer to the normal retail pricing, for that stock..

podgeandrodge

Amalgam wrote: »

Just for anyone, out of interest, Xtra-Vision have:

ARCHOS 10" G9 8GB ANDROID 3.2 TABLET € 289.95



€259.95 or thereabouts.

There's nothing great about the prices, both of them, but the Xtra-Vision price is *cough* closer to the normal retail pricing, for that stock..

As far as I know it is NOT the G9 for €259 in xtravision but the original. At least that is what their website says.

Amalgam

podgeandrodge wrote: »

As far as I know it is NOT the G9 for €259 in xtravision but the original. At least that is what their website says.

It is the G9, as far as I can tell, that shop only had the G9.. the hand written price also mentioned the model being the G9. All the stock was in the glass pillar too. Shrink wrapped. Honeycomb tablets.

I was eyeing up the smaller G9 model for a good while, but was gutted by the 'screen ring' problem that's being reported on YouTube.

TheSluiceGate

tall chapy wrote: »

Carphone Warehouse were selling the 10' Archos for €199 today

Are you sure it wasn't the Blackberry Playbook which is on their site for 199 euro? They seem to have only a few tablets on sale and an Archos does not appear to be one of them.

tall chapy

No, it was definitely Archos, they may even have had a 32gb but not sure of the price

donal666

hgm wrote: »

Hi sorry only seeing this now.Its the g9 version. You can use youtube no bother.It had the android market so you can download 1000's of apps. Have to say no problems so far. Check the prices onl ine before going so you can get them for that price. Also they had the 8gb Archos out on display for €235!! Ask for the 16gb one it's in the glass cabinet and quote the on line price of €199.99.

Hey OP Which store did you pick it up in? Tnx

Dr. Nick

TheSluiceGate wrote: »

Lots of sites are saying that flash support (and the android market) can be very easily added to the Archos 101 internet tablet by installing a piece of software called AppsLib: http://appslib.com/

http://www.arctablet.com/blog/featured/adobe-flash-10-3-officially-archos-appslib/

Archos 101 comes with applib installed, but it's fairly limited. Actual android market easily added, my 14-y-o daughter did it St. Stephens day....

Nice piece of kit for what she wants, good battery life, ok screen (€199 in Tesco before Chrisrmas - non-G9).
Not a laptop replacement, I'm now convinced that ipads etc. are totally over-priced, and a device like this plus a decent laptop is all one needs.....

deadl0ck

For anyone that's interested - I've a G8 16GB that I bought on Adverts and it's fine, but was a little slow / laggy

I have since installed UrukDroid on it and uit's a very different machine - runs great now along with ADW Launcher EX

If you don't want the custom Uruk firmware then make sure to go to power options and set it to overdrive as otherwise the CPU only runs at 800Mhz instead of 1GHz (boosts battery performance at lower rate, but worse performance)

ciano316

If you want to install android market, go to AppsLib and install ArcTools. This will install andoroid market on the tablet.

axle108

+1 on arctools for getting android on archos 101 internet tablet

TheSluiceGate

Yep, I installed Arctools and now have full flash support including Youtube through the browser.