Archos planning Android powered Internet Media Tablet

Archos creates some of the finest personal media player devices on the planet, but with smartphones steadily gaining greater multimedia capabilities, the future of standalone devices seems uncertain. Luckily, Archos has a plan – to beat smartphone makers at their own game with an Android powered Internet Media Tablet.   The idea is still at the planning stages, but Archos already has a good outline of what its new Internet Media Tablet will do. For starters, it will offer all the telephonic abilities that Google’s Android platform brings to the table. So it will act as a smartphone, allowing voice communications and data browsing using 3.5G HSPA connectivity, and will let you run other Android applications downloaded from the Android Marketplace.     Then you’ve got all the usual multimedia capabilities that you expect from Archos: music and video playback (supporting multiple formats), Adobe Flash and Flash Video, and TV recording. This will be backed up by a ... (link)