Tony Limrick, Managing Director of Archos Northern Europe, made this announcement at an event in London, and also asked the viewers to keep September 15 open in their calendar. So, is it supposed to be its launch day ? Possible.

The tablet seems to have quite impressive features. No clue was given by Tony Limrick on the day of the announcement, but a couple of months back, the possible features of the device were let out :

• 5-inch display
• 7.2Mb/s HSDPA
• 2Mb/s HSUPA
• 500GB of storage
• Ability to play HD movies
• Only 10mm thick
• 7 hours of video playback time
• 800MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 3440 processor described as “laptop-like”

If these specs are to be believed, then we have a really great device in the making. But, what would be the price of such an impressive device ? Are u ready to shell out a fortune for a tablet PC ?

[via phandroid]

According to Tom Kang, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, “We forecast global Android smartphone shipments to grow an impressive 900 percent annually during 2009. The Android mobile operating system from Google gained early traction in the United States in the second half of 2008 and it is gradually spreading its presence into Europe and Asia during 2009. Android is expanding from a low base and it is consequently outgrowing the iPhone OS from Apple, which we estimate will grow at a relatively lower 79 percent annually in 2009.”

If this report is to be believed, then the growth of Android Smartphones would lead much ahead of Apple I-Phone and Windows Mobile Smartphones, the other two biggies in the smartphone market. Because, the sale of Apple I-phone is expected to grow at a rate of about 80% (according to a report by Strategy Analytics) and that of Windows Mobile by about 50%(as told to channel web by Eddie Wu, Managing Director of OEM, Microsoft).

This figure does not seem quite difficult to achieve, when compared to the hype and craze surrounding the Android platform. We have got news about almost every major player in the mobile phone arena planning to launch an Android device. Also, we can expect some Android powered notebooks and netbooks very soon, from companies like T-Mobile and HP.

via [mobileburn]