Archos Lays Claim to First Sub-$200 Honeycomb Tablet

cool? but a fire has better specs... It might not be honeycomb, but still

Given how heavily-customized the Fire is, the Archos is a great option for those who want stock Android (let alone Honeycomb).

At the very least, it may prompt other tablet manufacturers to drop the price a bit on their tablets.  Of course, we'll have to wait for benchmarks to get a real idea of whether this is competitive at $200 or an Fire wannabe..

I almost feel like were moving backwards i haven't seen a product with less than a gig of ram in 5 years, but the pricepoint is dropping. i just think they ar too close to the useless line to keep up with fire and the nook color.

You do know the Kindle Fire also has 512MB of RAM, right?  The Nook Tablet has 1GB.  I still think there is a place in the market for the Archos. since it runs stock Honeycomb, versus a heavily-customized version of Android that eats up more system resources.  

I realize it may not reach the same level as the Kindle Fire in terms of sales, but most of the sales push towards the Fire is because it's an Amazon-branded tablet that can access Amazon content.  If it didn't have the deep integration with Amazon, I don't think it would sell nearly as well based on specs alone.

Calling 199 sub 200 while accurate, is also BS. Thats 200. 187 is sub 200. They may as well take that dollar. I liked their MP3 and media players back in the day, so I can see myself using this if the battery is good enough. Id use it purely for browsing and media, so past that I am not too worried. Doesnt mention internal storage. SD cards would suffice, I guess.