Unlike its competitors, which are running on Android 2.3, The Archos 70b Internet Tablet runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb, Google’s full suite of mobile applications with Android Market, giving users access to over 300,000 applications such as games, books, social media and news. With Honeycomb, users will have faster and smoother transitions between different applications, and more intuitive navigation to and from home screens.

Very slim and light, the newest version Archos 70b Internet Tablet offers the best performances in terms of portability, immediate internet access, multimedia, apps and affordability. This new version has a higher resolution capacitive screen (1024 x 600) for vibrant colors and crisp clarity and has doubled the RAM to 512 MB for a smoother web experience and more efficient multi-tasking.

Other 70b features include a 1.2GHz CPU, an SD card slot, HDMI output, and 3D gaming capabilities.

These specifications are almost the same, except that Kindle Fire and Nook tablet are running on dual-core processor. It seems that if you get one thing, you will also make sacrifice and lose other things. If not for many games, this 70b is still a wonderful choice for its amazing Android 3.2 platform and powerful hardware. Internet, music and movie fans will love it and what if you want to view PowerPoint on Archos 70b Internet Tablet? Android Tablet has not native PowerPoint support, and even the Android Office apps cannot preserve the animations, transition, etc. Saving PowerPoint as video could be the best choice for 70b users.

All in all, once released in January, the Archos 70b Internet Tablet will be one of the best options to choose from in its category. You know that both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have a solid support from their own online services mostly the eBooks. Whether the Archos 70b Internet Tablet will be a success remains a question for now.