ARCHOS have shown their hand in the Tablet market for kids this morning wading in with this, the Child Pad. It joins the MEEP and Kurio although it could well steal a lead as it is launching at the end of March, the others have a TBC date and late September. In the looks department all seems perfectly acceptable, it ‘ll run on the 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software has 1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM – And it’ll be just £99. Kids friendly features include access to the Kids App Store powered by AppsLib which is filtered down to 14 categories and 10,000 apps covering games, entertainment, communication, multimedia, books, comics, sports and more, it also has a pretty decent interface for the young un’s, coloured icons, home screen folders with direct access to games, entertainment, learning and puzzles and the top 28 kids’ apps pre-loaded including Angry Birds, Pig Rush and Flight Frenzy. Innotab and Leappad owners prepare to upgrade.



















