Archos Gamepad

[originalbadboy]

The more I see of this the more I want ... Much better than the rubbish JXD S7100 that I stupidly bought...

Ignore the total idiot making the video ...



Out in the next few weeks for apparently less than £130 ... There is one thing that does annoy me and that's the insistence by google of having the menu at the bottom without any way of getting rid of it .. really ruins full screen gaming .. imo ..

Still somewhat interested in this I have to say.

[ikobo]

Awful video, but the gamepad itself looks pretty good.

[J0e Musashi]

Terrible looking d-pad, and are they PSP nubs?

[bash]

Urgh, all the buttons look horrid!

[davek22]

The button mapping software on this thing is the reason I am buying it. It lets you map the analogues and buttons to any area on the touch screen. This means you can play things like Dead Trigger with dual analogues and map fire to the shoulder button.
I will post impressions when I get it just in case its a dog (like the last two cheap android tabs I bought!)

[kryss]

I liked the Archos I had although I heard the G9s had warping issues.

[ikobo]

Wasn't this supposed to be out before the end of October? So tomorrow then???

[davek22]

Archos said it was delayed till mid November. Its up for pre order at a couple of places for about £125 inc delivery. None of them are retailers I recognise so I am going to wait till its up at Amazon or from Archos direct

[originalbadboy]

Well I was thinking of getting one ...

But that screen is bloody awful ...

http://www.arctablet.com/blog/device...tablet-design/



Serisouly would it have been that difficult to actually put an (what is standard now) IPS screen on it? They have just put together something which was worth getting, and then balsed it up completely ... Has Archos been taken over by Nintendo??

[bash]

I'm sure the screen wont be as bad as that in the flesh. Not sure I'd call IPS standard, certainly not for devices priced at £125 odd.

I'm more concerned about the pants looking D-pad.