ARCHOS today announced plans to extend its product line with a new ultra-thin Internet Media Tablet (IMT) combined with a mobile phone, by merging Google’s Android telephony stack and the ARCHOS’ multimedia framework. This new IMT will also incorporate the OMAP 3 platform from Texas Instruments.

With the integration of voice, ARCHOS is looking to expand beyond portable media players to provide solutions for the converged space, where a foundation in high-quality video content delivery is a benefit. In addition to Android functionality and voice support, the new ARCHOS’ IMT will offer:

• PC-like Internet experience enhanced by a high-resolution 5″ screen and full-width page viewing
• Adobe Flash and Flash Video support, full screen
• Access whenever and wherever to TV, movies, photos, music and games
• Uncompromised TV recording and High Definition (HD) playback, all formats
• Hundreds of hours of video storage, up to 500 GB
• Innovative design: compact 10-mm ultra-thin tablet
• Long battery life, 7 hours’ video playback
• 3.5G 7.2 Mb/s HSUPA
• Laptop-like performance from the first implementation of OMAP3440 processor based on the ARM Cortex superscalar microprocessor and DSP

ARCHOS’ new Android-based IMT with voice functionality will be released in 3Q 2009.

[via Android Community]