Archos 70b 7 inch Internet Tablet (ARM Coretex A8 1.2 GHz Processor, RAM 512MB, Memory 8GB, Android 3.2)

A lot of reviews are written by people who have a good knowledge about the items in question and give a full technical report. I however don't have an in-depth knowledge of Tablets and have never owned one before so I thought I'd write this review for others like me.
Spending this sort of money was a big deal for me so I did as much research into buying the right Tablet as I could, after a month I decided to go for this Archos 70b.
I've owned Archos products before and feel confident that they are well made. This tablet for me continues in that vein. It feels sturdy and solid and is very neat and compact. The 7 inch touch screen is perfect, no ripples that I've read about on some other models. The built in speakers either side of the screen are loud and clear and the kick stand on the back is a very clever idea.
The tablet itself is pretty awesome. The internet runs very smoothly and incredibly quickly considering that's not a given where I live but its only wi-fi, no 3G support. You really can pull it out of your pocket, turn it on and google something in under a minute though, no more waiting for the PC to boot up.
It's also pretty amazing for watching tv on too. The picture quality is superb and I was able to watch a live streaming football match last night without and breaks or problems.
The layout is pretty easy to get used to with pages flipping through as in a book and the preloaded apps for things like music and video are very nice. You also get asked when you set up your tablet if you want to download some apps which are also very good. It also comes with a trial Office app which is pretty smart.
Setting up email was easy and you have full access to the Android App store which has some great apps, I was able to link my tablet to my computer without too much difficulty using pocketcloud. Now I can play Football Manager 12 while I'm in the bath and really annoy the wife!
Now the bad bits. When I got the tablet the first thing I wanted to do was watch something, I was unable to do so. I thought I read that it came with Flash player but I might have been mistaken so I downloaded Flash 11 from the app store, it still wouldn't work. So I connected it to my pc to try and transfer a video, It won't let me transfer any files. I tried it on 3 computers, it wouldn't even register on one of them. Being computer illiterate I took it to my local computer shop. Eventually they got Flash working but have not been able to transfer any files.
I've since bought a micro SD card and popped that in, I can transfer anything to that so it's no big deal to me but it might be to others.
In short it's a great little tablet for surfing, playing and watching things on. Fast, smooth and smart. Well worth the money if you know someone who can sort out any little problems but it looses a star for those two problems i had.

This is my first Tablet of any kind and I would say I am an experienced Pc, Netbook, Windows 7 Smartphone user but have never used Android before. This Tablet uses 3.2 Honeycomb and I picked up its ease of use in about 10 minutes. Firmware update completed in minutes with no problems. I can say I have nothing to gripe about regarding this tablet. Size is obviously personal preference but I am entirely happy with the 7 inch display, which is bright and clear. Android market comes as standard and installing apps is a snip. Movies play with clarity and sharpness, the internal speakers are fine but headphones are obviously better. BBC Iplayer plays with smoothness and no interuption on wireless (obviously depending on signal strength). The capacitive screen is responsive with the pinch-zoom feature being particularly effective. Being an academic I have installed and easily read (using adobe app) pdf articles with no issues whatsoever. Installing Juice defender app has improved battery usage but turning off the wireless when not online is the best way forward here and I assume applies to all tablets. I installed an extra 16gb micro sd card to add to the 8gb internal memory, all of which is sufficient for my needs. As I said in the title, it does what it says on the tin!. Slightly fragile stand to enable movie viewing but works well. To be recommended.

Easy to set up. no problems encounted with updating firmware. Fitted a 32G sd micro SD card with ease and graphics are brilliant playing back videos. m
Much more stable than 250G hard drive version a good mid range tablet.