These days we can see more and more smartphones getting different certificates for being waterproof, shockproof, dustproof, etc. Since they are standardized under special labels like IP57 or IP54 it was just a matter of time when someone will mix them up, and that special moment came during the presentation of Archos smartphone by the company's CEO Loic Poirier.

The French company Archos introduced a new Neon line of tablets with affordable price whose screen diagonals range from 9 to 10.1 inches.  Archos 90 Neon is the smallest of the series. It comes with 9 inch screen resolution of only 800×480 pixels, quad MTK processor clocked at 1.4 GHz, 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of memory for data storage.

The new model comes with an improved 7-inch IPS screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels, powered by quad-core processor clocked at 1.6 GHz, while still unrecognized quad GPU is in charge of the graphics section of the device. To ensure stable operation during gameplay Archos in the console installed 2 GB of RAM.

Archos announced they will release a 7-inch Android tablet made primarily for gamers. Lately a lot of high quality Android games have come out and Archos hopes that this will be a trigger for their success. We also talked few days ago about the new console OUYA, that will be Android based, so it looks like the Android gaming market is starting to grow rapidly. Many would describe the Archos GamePad as like an XL PS Vita and we can agree that they have some similarities but let’s not mix apples and pears. The Archos GamePad will run on Ice Cream Sandwich, so we can expect it to be able to handle all of the latest games for Android. At launch it will run on Jelly Bean and will not get the upgrade until more games become compatible with it.