Archos has shown his new tablet GamePada whirlpool bath, gaming tablet with built-in physical controls in the body of the device itself. It has some very interesting technical specifications and it is an official Google tablet, that is, it comes with Google Play pre-installed so you will have access to all the games offered there so that the tablet really does its job.
Has a screen 7 inch, ideal for video games like the Asphalt 7 that we see in the presentation image. To put the graphics in motion use a processor of dual core 1,5 GHz with a GPU Mali-400 MP, a graphics processor that is giving great results and for which many tablets bet like the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.
Will come with Android 4.O Ice Cream Sandwich as an operating system that was the first Android OS to offer game controllers in its standard software. This makes it easier for developers to develop games by being able to start from a given starting point. Thus, the Archos tablet uses these controllers in conjunction with its own game software that incorporates automatic game recognition and mapping tools to ensure that you can play all advanced Android games in perfect coordination with the physical controls.
Archos understood that until now Android games had certain responsiveness and compatibility issues with physical controls that made the gaming experience disconcerting. The Archos GamePad solves these problems while maintaining all the touch controls to combine them.
That is, the touch control typical of tablets does not disappear but which is combined with physical controls for a superior gaming experience.
For now, this tablet, and its physical controls, is compatible with more than 1.000 Android games including titles that were not originally intended to use physical controls.
It is said that Archos GamePad you will see the shops at the end of October and by a price less than 150 euros in Europe. This is not the first device we see of this style, the WikiPad project is really interesting too and you can know more about it in this article. The fundamental difference with the Archos GamePad is that the physical controls can be unplugged, but we already see that we have a new breed of tablets settling in, the gaming tablets.
Source: Slashgear