The device is a sort of a gaming hybrid with physical controls on the sides of a center touchscreen display, this making it both a tablet and a personal gaming console.
Archos GamePad sports a 7-inch, 1,024 x 600 resolution display, 1.6GHz dual-core processor with Mali-400 MP GPU, 8GB internal memory with microSD card slot for an additional 64GB, miniHDMI out and Android 4.1, Jelly Bean.
This GamePad works with many games by bringing physical controls to take the place of virtual controls. In fact, ARCHOS currently has it that the GamePade uses “unique mapping software that allows you to link the virtual controls of any game to physical controls.” Any game at all – that’s a winning formula!
This machine also able to access the official Google Play store for content as well as Google Mobile Services galore. With this device’s 14 physical buttons as well as dual analog thumb-sticks and technology unique to ARCHOS, this may well be the gaming device you’ve been looking for for Android.
It was announced on August 29, 2012 and now available in Europe for €149.99 and will be arriving in North America in Q1, 2013.
The on-screen buttons can be easily mapped to any of the physical buttons as demonstrated in the video below.
