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what's going on Android lovers this is Clayton Youngberg coming at you from Android authority calm you're born source for all things Android today we've got a review of the brand-new Arcos gen 10 this is the 10-1 XS the XS stands for extra slim and our coats is looking to change the game with this tablet so you can see here doesn't look much for a tablet as of yet and that's because the unique cover board is on the tablet now this is a magnetic keyboard dock as well as a protective cover that i've magnetically attaches to your device protects it from dust scrapes fall damage the whole nine yards and it also has a micro USB here on bottom so we'll check this out here in just a little bit and actually get into what this tablet has to offer as you can see this is one of the slimmest tablets on the market as of right now they're really pushing for the dimensions of this tablet to rival the slimmest tablets on the market the cover board is only 5 millimeters thick our tablets only eight millimeters thick so it's just really light it's built well you can see we have aluminum bezel around here we've got aluminum on the back and then we have some nice white plastic wrapping around the rest of the tablet it's got Ice Cream Sandwich on board upgradeable to jellybean in quarter 4 of 2012 and it's really blazing fast we'll get into some more specs here in a minute after we check out some more of the tablet itself see here on the bottom we have our nice docking pin it's a proprietary connector and Argos is actually coming out with a line of accessories exclusive to the Gen 10 series anyways over here we've got mini HDMI we've also got the mini headphone or the standard headphone excuse me we also have the micro USB and the micro SD slot now on this side is where we have our volume rocker and our power key with a nice little green light to notify us that the tablet is charged and running I've got a 1.3 megapixel camera on the front of the device but no rear camera so as you can see we'll go to our lock screen here umm this is running an unskilled version of Android 4.0.4 ice-creams sandwich and it's got a blazing fast processor humming away behind the software got a TI OMAP 44 70 CPU we also have a power VR SGX 544 GPU anyways we'll go into our app tray here as you can see we do have our usual Ice Cream Sandwich native apps and we also have a few our Coast native apps such as the Archos remote we have our file manager we have a media server suite we have the office suite some news república apps Netflix pre-loaded got some games like fruit ninja pre-loaded we have our photo frame viewer as well it takes all of our recent images and kind of just brings them across the screen and we can just browse anyways I'll go ahead and go to the next pane here we have the Spider Man HD pre-loaded Naqada try some gaming I added the thumb keyboard this does have the nice stock Ice Cream Sandwich tablet keyboard on deck you can see no skins here just basically AOSP Android click our status bar we've got our airplane mode Wi-Fi auto rotate screen we can enable or disable notifications and go ahead and go into the settings under Wi-Fi settings and even though this is the AOSP Android we also have our nice little tab here for repair and formatting options courtesy of our code so we have touch screen calibration available accelerometer calibration can reset our multimedia library reset the ends or legal information or model number we can register our device as well Buchan firmware version for dots 0.23 which is a little Arcos version but this is unscanned as i've said and it's android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich and zoom back out go ahead and go back once again we will go back to our settings very quickly do have the data monitoring the data usage but we don't have NFC in this device because we've also got a developer options with USB debugging all of our Ice Cream Sandwich native developer options as well got a recent maps pane here go ahead and do a quadrant standard test to show you how fast this TI OMAP processor is it's really blazing fast I'll go ahead and set the tablet down for that it is just incredible how fast this tablet is CAIR quadrant is finished we'll go ahead and see what we scored tilt this up our device got thirty eight hundred and sixteen which is just great I mean this big 10.1 inch display with a resolution of 1280 by 800 it's just really lots of power so getting a quadrant score of around thirty eight hundred to four thousand is uh you know pretty dang impressive we had a sixty five hundred eighty-one or 6851 I'm sorry CPU score I remember we had 3895 now the internal storage on this device this is sixteen gigabytes of flash memory but the micro SD card is expandable up to 64 gigabytes anyways iOS core 4900 2ds a thousand and three D is 2423 as I said this has a great GPU on it so anyways let's check out this awesome cover board that comes with the Archos now with a suggested retail price of 399 you've got to expect some pretty good build quality and I will say that this is fairly stable despite this little flap you just pull up and then simply open this flap as well it's very stable it's made out of high quality plastic you know it is a little flexible but nothing nothing too much anyways we'll slide a tablet in it is magnetically glided you can see in the back we can go ahead and zoom in check out those connections got all of our magnetic strips here and then the cover board simply glides the Archos tablet down and then holds it magnetically pretty sturdy as you can see it doesn't have a lot of give when you turn this back around and check out some more features of this cover board as you can see it's full QWERTY keyboard I accidentally press some buttons there we also have our Android native shortcuts we have the back the search button our notifications button as well home button recent apps and then we have our menu button here all of our numbers are media options here the play pause now the proprietary media streaming utilities on this tablet are very great because Arcos was a multimedia company basically before they got into the tablet business so we'll go ahead and go back here we do have our video player we have some nice demo videos here on the video player that we'll go ahead and just show you here got our demo video nice sound from our speaker here I'm go ahead and turn our volume rocker up this is a start demo video anyways plays great video HD looks awesome on this device as I said has a very big resolution we also have a proprietary music player comes from Argos some angry load with a few songs like some Daft Punk get loud enough for volume control simply slide up and down our 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera is mostly going to be used for Skype calls and stuff of that nature we'll go ahead and give it a test button back and go into our apps and we'll get to our camera here nice quality okay anyways uh go ahead and go back does have all of the Ice Cream Sandwich features doesn't have the fast shutter like some of the other tablets do while actually on tablets but galaxy s3 and Ice Cream Sandwich device guys don't forget to check out the Archos 10-1 XS line of tablets they're gonna be hitting stores August 22nd 2012 upgradeable the Ice Cream Sandwich got a gigabyte of RAM in here expandable 64 gigabytes of storage 16 gigabytes internal great 10.1 inch screen with an awesome resolution as well don't forget our cover board here simple protection magnetically sealed and then all of our different options as far as the ports go this is this a really great tablet I've enjoyed using it for $399 you can't really go wrong for something that comes with a keyboard dock rivals the Transformer Pad Infinity the Aces TF 300 as well with its keyboard docks and it is just a little bit thinner so anyways guys check out the brand new gen 10 tablet line from Park Oaks and thanks for watching guys this is Clayton young we're with Andrew Authority calm