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Heard of the Arnova Child Pad tablet?

It’s is the same tablet, from Archos, a French electronics maker, which is affectionately being called iPad for kids.

The Arnova Child Pad tablet is now available on preorder from Play.com. At a price of £95 or Approx. USD 150.

The tablet is due for an April 10 release.

Arnova Child Pad tablet specs and features, which make for a pretty impressive configuration, are as under:

1) A 7-inch resistive dual touch display with a 800 by 480 pixels screen resolution
2) Runs on Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich
3) Powered by a single core 1GHz processor (possibly a Cortex-A8 based Rockchip RK model)
4) 1GB RAM
5) 4GB built in storage
6) A microSD card slot
7) A front facing camera
8) Connectivity Options include: A microUSB port, WiFi
9) Battery Life: up to eight hours video playback (twice that when listening to music).
10) Access to a special app store called "Kids App Store", Archos specially created for kids. The store contains 10,000 apps categories in 14 sections and has bundled 28 games with the tablet.

The device has a neat and decent looking plastic finish, easy enough to clean. The rubberised enclosure makes for a secure grip.

With the Arnova Child Pad tablet, Archos has pitted itself against two main competitors, the Innotab and the Leappad. Price is good, it is claimed as the Fastest Tablet Under £100 yet; if the Archos tablet is durable, then it can carve out a bigger share for itself in booming children tablet market.

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Archos brings iPad For Kids : Arnova Child Pad Available For Preorder

Anil Singh Monday, March 19, 2012

Arnova , the brand under which the tablet maker Archos launched a new line of budget Android tablets which sold for $199 or less earlier this year, has received updated versions of its 7 and 10 inch tablets with newer software and slightly heavier specs.

The new tablets are namely, Arnova 10 G2, Arnova 7 G2, Arnova 7c G2.

Arnova 10 G2

A 10 inch tablet, and measures 10.6″ x 5.9″ x 0.5″ and weighs 1.3 pounds or around 500 grams. The new model runs on Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive multitouch display. The tablet is available in two storage options a 4GB and a 8GB version. The tablet has a a microSDHC card slot for extending storage.
The Arnova 10 G2 emphasises on multimedia, with support for 1080p H.264 video as well as support for MP4, RealVideo, and other video codecs including MKV, MOV, and FLV. The tablet has a speaker, mic, G-sensor, and a 720 pixel camera.

Arnova 7 G2

A 7 inch tablet, which measures 8″ x 4.2″ x 0.5″ and weighs just 0.8 pounds or 336 grams, is almost identical to Arnova 10 G2. Points of divergence is a smaller, lower resolution display. The Arnova 7 G2 has a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel capacitive touchscreen dsiplay. Like the 10 inch tablet, it runs on Android 2.3 operating system, has an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, and comes in two versions a 4GB and a 8GB storages. It too can handle H.264 video playback with resolutions up to 1080p as well as other video codecs.

Arnova 7c G2

First Arnova tablet to be compatible with 3G network. The tablet which looks similar to Arnova 7, and measures 7.7″ x 4.6″ x 0.6″ and weighs about 1.1 pounds; also supports GPS and Bluetooth. The tablet runs on Google Android 2.3, has a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel capacitivee multitouch display, and comes with 4GB of storage. One major difference between Arnova 7 G2 and 7c G2 is that, the Arnova 7c G2 runs on a Qualcomm MSM7227 processor. The processor which runs at 600 MHz or 800MHz, is relatively slower than the processor in the Arnova 7 G2, says UG.

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Updated versions of Arnova 7, 10 inch Android tablets launched

Anil Singh Monday, August 29, 2011