Archos announces four new Android products

French internet tablet vendor Archos has announced two Android devices for home use which it will present at the IFA consumer electronics trade fair being held in Berlin, Germany, between 2-7 September. The company will also show two new internet tablets at the event, the Archos 80 G9 and Archos 101 G9, which are planned to reach market at the end of September. The Archos 35 Smart Home Phone, a standard DECT phone and internet access and video device, will sell at a recommended retail price of EUR 149. The product can serve as an alarm clock, baby monitor, video camera and music player. It can use for thousands of apps, including weather and traffic information, games and news. The Archos 35 Home Connect is a web radio device with touchscreen and high-quality speakers. It connects to the home internet modem via Wi-Fi. Its TuneIn app can be used to listen to over 50,000 stations and the Musique app to the household's favourite tracks. It too can download a broad range of Android apps. The device will carry a EUR 139 RRP. The Archos 80 G9 and 101 G9 tablets will come with a 1.5 GHz double-core OMAP 4 ARM Cortex chip from Texas Instruments, a 250 GB hard drive from Seagate, Google's Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) OS, a 1,080 pixel HD video camera, Wi-Fi, and 3G connectivity via the Archos 3G Stick. Users will be able to download apps from Android Market rather than only Archos's own apps portal. The new tablets' screens will measure 8-inches and 10.1-inches, respectively. Archos says the TI chip will enable up to 50 percent faster webpage downloads than rival products using Nvidia Tegra chips running at 1 to 2 GHz. The tablets will sell from EUR 249 and EUR 299; the 3G Stick for EUR 49. .