Archos has kind of fallen off the radar in terms of tablet sales. Maybe it's different in Europe (Archos is a French company), but these days you won't see any of its products on American shelves. And considering the relative paucity of Android tablets in general as of late, that's a shame. Especially when you hear that Archos is making three new tablets at a variety of sizes and, miracle of miracles, they're all running the latest version of Android at launch.

So it is with the new Oxygen series of tablets: the 70, 80, and 101b at 7-inch, 8-inch, and 10.1-inches, respectively. They're all pretty basic in terms of specifications, but not unreasonably priced for that. All three models use a somewhat underpowered MediaTek 1.3GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM, which should run Android 6.0 just fine even if they don't break any speed records. All three use 16GB of storage (no mention of MicroSD card support), 5MP rear cameras with LED flash, and a 2MP front-facing camera. The two smaller tablets use a 16:10 1920x1200 IPS screen, while the 101b gets a tiny bit more resolution with 1920x1280. All three are quite thin at 8mm on the Z-axis, though the batteries are a bit lacking at 3000mAh, 4500mAh, and 6000mAh in ascending order.

The best part? The price: the 70 Oxygen will sell for just 75 British pounds (about $107 or 96 Euro), the 80 Oxygen is 100 pounds ($143/€128) and the 101b Oxygen is 120 pounds ($172/€154). While it's hard to tell from just two images, it doesn't look like Archos has done too much fiddling with the stock software, either. All three models are expected to arrive on the market in May - here's hoping they make it across the Atlantic.

[Editor's note: apologies for the small images - they're the only ones that were included in the Archos press release.]

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