ARCHOS Pioneers Tablet Solution for the Education Market

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ARCHOS, a major player in the Android tablet market, is taking advantage of its innovative tablet technology, customization capabilities and aggressive prices to target the education market and offer a full tablet solution to enhance the way schools operate, teachers teach and students learn.

“By partnering with ARCHOS, schools and education professionals are able to offer a complete and affordable digital solution without compromising on technology and quality.”

“As the tablet market continues to grow and find its identity we have started to target specialized sectors that can benefit from our innovation and are expected to fuel growth. Education is at the top of the list. Our tablet’s are ideal across all sectors of education” said Henri Crohas, CEO of ARCHOS. “By partnering with ARCHOS, schools and education professionals are able to offer a complete and affordable digital solution without compromising on technology and quality.”

ARCHOS Tablets are perfectly designed to fit school, teacher and students’ needs

ARCHOS tablets are designed with a teacher or a student lifestyle in mind: they’re thin, lightweight, and have been optimized to maximize battery life, making them much more portable than a laptop or netbook.

In addition to the thousands of apps available on Appslib, they’re also fully compatible with online teaching and learning platforms, such as Smartboard. Thanks to the apps, tablets are capable of offering enhanced ebooks featuring images, video and audio. By allowing students to highlight text, take notes in the margin and access a dictionary directly within the book itself, tablets are optimizing a student’s learning.

Finally, ARCHOS’ broad range of tablets and prices as well as ARCHOS’ customization and tech support capabilities allow each school or school distributor to create a full custom built product including solutions for schools to operate better, teachers to access content or share best practices and students to access interactive courses.

Education Vertical offers high potential market

Driven by unprecedented success, the tablet market continues to grow and is predicted to reach 55 million units (IDC) in 2011 and more than 80 million in 2012 (IDC).

“In mid 2011, we started seeing strong interest from emerging countries such as Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Argentina to provide a technology solution for their education markets,” Crohas added.

ARCHOS has proven experience

With its large range of Android tablets at affordable prices starting at $99 and the know-how with Android tablets, ARCHOS is well positioned to offer the best tablet solution for education and already has proven experience from last quarter:

Sangari (USA):

ARCHOS worked with Sangari Global Education, a K12 education service provider focused on high-quality, inquiry-based science education for elementary and middle school students and serving 25,000 students in the United States this year. Archos provided customized ARCHOS 101 Internet Tablets with a dedicated application for teachers to access Sangari instructional content, assessment, and digital resources all focused on accelerating student learning in science.

NETS (Institución Educativa NETS) (USA):

ARCHOS, through its exclusive distributors Nets and Elitesoft Corporation, provides ARCHOS 70 and ARCHOS 101 Internet Tablets in support of the U.S. Department of Education’s Public Law 107-110 (No Child Left Behind). Nets, a major provider of tutoring services for K-12 students in Puerto Rico and throughout the Caribbean, and Elitesoft Corporation, a leading education app and software developer, have chosen ARCHOS tablets to allow K-12 students to benefit from a cutting-edge tablet coupled with an interactive app allowing them to improve their English, Spanish, Math and Science classes.

KUNO/uWrite (USA):

ARCHOS customized a 10" tablet for KUNO, a uWriteTouch brand that specializes in interactive touch-screen and LCD devices. KUNO delivers mobile technology to meet the individual needs of users from all walks of life - from students to stockbrokers to soccer moms. The KUNO tablet is designed for practicality and every-day use, at a price that won’t break the family budget.

SEB (Sytema Educata Brazil):

SEB is the largest chain of private K12 schools in Brazil and of the largest in higher education distance learning. SEB, Sistema Educacional Brasileiro, was established in 1963 and became listed in Brazilian stock market in 2007. They will provide the ARCHOS 101 Internet Tablet to their students within the framework of the electronic learning program.

About ARCHOS

Archos, the pioneer in the portable audio and video player market, and now specializing in Android powered Internet tablets, has repeatedly revolutionized the market for consumer electronics since 1988. Today, ARCHOS offers Android Tablets, Tablet PCs and MP3/MP4 players. In 2000, ARCHOS launched the Jukebox 6000, the first MP3 player combined with a hard disk. Then in 2003 ARCHOS introduced the first portable multimedia players with TV recording. In 2006 Wi-Fi is implemented and then touch screens in 2007. In 2008, Archos launched the first generation Internet Tablets, and then the first ever Android powered tablets in 2009. ARCHOS has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. ARCHOS is quoted on Compartment C of Eurolist, Euronext Paris, ISIN CodeFR0000182479. Website: www.archos.com.

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Contact at ARCHOS

For information about Archos education solutions in the US, please contact Jessica Fishman: (fishman@Archos.com).