Going by the initial details of the Archos 7 Home Tablet, the device appears to be a rather fetching one, boasting quite a few notable features; even though it falls short of being an iPad killer.

The 8-inch, 4.25-inch tall, and 0.5-inch thick Archos tablet, has the standard plastic slab-like look of most tablets; and has two pillar features – namely, Web browsing and e-mail, both of which are provided through Google Android operating system.

Among the other noteworthy features of the out-and-out Android-based Archos tablet are – a 7-inch backlit LCD with 800x480-pixel resolution; a 600MHz ARM 9 processor; 802.11g Wi-Fi; two built-in speakers; an integrated microphone; and 8GB internal memory; and a microSDHC card slot to expand the memory to an additional 32GB.

Other than Web browsing and e-mail, the core apps of the Archos tablet include Twidroid, photo viewer, games, Internet radio apps, social networking apps, and apps for reading e-books.

With the tablet capable of media playback for music and videos, its processor can decode a wide range of music formats - including MP3, unprotected WMA, WAV, APE, OGG, FLAC, and AAC; along with H. 264, Real Video, and MPEG-4 video codecs which have AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, and FLV file extensions.

The $199-priced Archos is also fairly generous in terms of battery life – boasting 42 hours of music playback or 7 hours of video.