Archos Gamepad 2 €99

TerrorFirmer

Maplins are selling the Archos Gamepad 2 for €99 in their clearance section. I picked one up in my local store.

Decent device, used it so far to play N64 emulators which work great with the dual analog sticks. It has a mapping tool, but nearly everything I've tried has detected the thumbsticks/buttons by default without any mapping required.

Nice quality screen and battery is pretty good, was playing emulators for a few hours and still had 50% battery.

Comes with full copies of Modern Combat 4 and Asphalt 8 as well, not for me personally but nice enough freebie.

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Operating system (OS) Android
OS version tested 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
Processor (CPU) Rockchip RK3188 Quad Core 1.8 GHz
GPU Mali-400 MP4
RAM 2 GB
Screen 7 inches IPS Capacitive
Resolution 1280 x 800 pixels
Internal storage / SDHC slot / External storage 8 GB / no / yes
Battery life 5000mah 8 hrs
Battery capacity
Dimensions/Weight 154 x 200.5 x 9.9 mm / 400 g
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / 3G / 4G (LTE) yes / yes / no / no
Ports Micro USB micro-USB, mini-HDMI, 3.5mm audio

Big Nelly

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Maplins are selling the Archos Gamepad 2 for €99 in their clearance section.

Decent device, used it so far to play N64 emulators which work great with the dual analog sticks. It has a mapping tool, but nearly everything I've tried has detected the thumbsticks/buttons by default without any mapping required.

Nice quality screen and battery is pretty good, was playing emulators for a few hours and still had 50% battery.

Comes with full copies of Modern Combat 4 and Asphalt 8 as well, not for me personally but nice enough freebie.




Operating system (OS) Android
OS version tested 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
Processor (CPU) Rockchip RK3188 Quad Core 1.8 GHz
GPU Mali-400 MP4
RAM 2 GB
Screen 7 inches IPS Capacitive
Resolution 1280 x 800 pixels
Internal storage / SDHC slot / External storage 8 GB / no / yes
Battery life 5000mah 8 hrs
Battery capacity
Dimensions/Weight 154 x 200.5 x 9.9 mm / 400 g
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / 3G / 4G (LTE) yes / yes / no / no
Ports Micro USB micro-USB, mini-HDMI, 3.5mm audio

Can this be bought online?

thierry14

What's it like as a tablet?

Specs are decent and it has mini hdmi port and sd card, 2gb ram too

Soarer

So can normal Android games be run on this yoke, or is it all only Archos' version of everything?

TerrorFirmer

It runs any Android game.

Only using it the past few days but for 99 it's very good value.

Soarer

Nice one.

Might get this as a stepping stone for the kid between iPad and Xbox. Let him get used to the sticks.

Big Nelly

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

It runs any Android game.

Only using it the past few days but for 99 it's very good value.

Rang blanchardstown, after spending 5 mins and explaining to 2 people what it was :P they are out of stock, so it Jervais St....

Galway or Dundalk have stock, I have one reserved in Galway, trying to convince mate to pick it up

MuppetCheck

None in stock in Cork anyway, might call in all the same and see.

meathman0

Just checked stock online, Galway has one Dundalk has 2.

Big Nelly

meathman0 wrote: »

Just checked stock online, Galway has one Dundalk has 2.

There was 2 in Galway, I reserved one and got mate to pick up:D

Do not need this at all but love my impulse buys

Thanks OP for posting....

Looks like something to keep me amused in work:P

imitation

Seems like a good deal for a quad core 2gb android device, you'd pay similar money for one from China, but this way you skip the 4 week wait, customs and you can return it to the shop.

supersparkz

Cheers Op. Couldn't resist and pcked up the other from Galway its actually a 16gb model for 105 euro. Im busy til Sunday but I'll give it a good test then.

Big Nelly

supersparkz wrote: »

Cheers Op. Couldn't resist and pcked up the other from Galway its actually a 16gb model for 105 euro. Im busy til Sunday but I'll give it a good test then.

I was wondering because Blanchardstown quoted me 105 as well, even better if 16GB