Archos 80 Cobalt announced, to be produced by Yifang

The Archos 80 Cobalt, the third Archos tablet in the Elements range has just being announced. Being slightly bigger than the iPad Mini, it packs a 1.6Ghz dual-core processor from Rockchip, 1GB of RAM and just like the new Apple device, two cameras. The new Cobalt tablet will probably be produced by Yifang, just like the similar-looking yet unannounced Prestigio 5580C and 5880D models(the 5580C is shown on the picture below).

The design for the 80 Cobalt comes from Arnova 8c G3 model which was released half a year ago.

If Archos will stick to their pricing promisses back from March, the Archos 80 Cobalt will land on the shelves for a friendly price of 149€, being 50€ cheaper than the Archos 80xs.

Like always, here is the specs list for those that are interested:

Operating SystemAndroid 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
CPUARM Cortex A9
Rockchip RK3066 @1.6GHz
Flash Storage MemoryCapacity: 8 GB
System Memory1024 Mb
Additional storageMicro SD slot (SDXC compatible up to 64GB)
Display1024×768 TFT
Capacitive MultiTouch
BluetoothNo
Wifi802.11 b/g/n
Gravity SensorYes
Camera0.3 MPx front-facing
2.0 MPx back
GPSNo
HDMINo
InterfacesMicroSD slot
USB Slave
Android Market / Google PlayYes
Battery capacity4000 mAh (TBC)
DimensionsNo
RRP149€ (TBC)


Archos 97 Carbon 16 Gb

AMAZON USAUsually ships in 1-2 business days$ 219.99
AMAZON UKUsually dispatched within 1-2 business days£ 149.99
AMAZON DEVersandfertig in 1 – 2 Werktagen200.03 EUR
AMAZON FRExpédition sous 2 à 3 jours ouvrés250.72 EUR

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Exelletor is one of the new contributors to arctablet blog. He has a passion for Archos/Arnova, Creative and Cowon products and loves to rumour about them. He is also very fund of  Android itself, but doesn't eat apples. For arctablet blog he will provide the new rumours and information about the coming products and will sometimes also review them.