Archos 80 G9 and 101 G9 hands-on (video)

So, such a lot of tablets this week at IFA. Archos’s pair of Honeycomb slates would possibly not have garnered a similar kind of excitement as, say yesterday’s Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 or Toshiba AT200 , but there are various interesting things occurring with the 80 G9 and 101 G9 . From a cultured standpoint, these are pretty appealing devices (the 80 and 101 look largely a similar, save for the variation in footprint and screen size), though they don’t seem to be quite on-par with both aforementioned tablets, relating to build. Among other things, they are a bit at the chunky side and feature fairly considerable bezels.

Like those devices, the G9 tablets run Android 3.2, though a decidedly less skinned up version than Samsung’s device. And their 1.5GHz processor assures that they may be able to handle the OS without problems. Archos’s tablets even have a few tricks up their collective sleeve. Flip the devices over, and also you discover a kickstand on one side and a slot at the apart from opens as much as reveal a USB port designed for the company’s proprietary 3G stick.

Also pretty awesome is the facility to configure their hard drives as much as 250GB — a pretty staggering sum within the tablet world. We got to spend some hands-on time with both — inspect a video after the break.