Printed from  CES hands-on: Archos' Gamepad, Family Pad, Gen 10
tablets  updated 10:31 pm EST, Tue January 8, 2013  Archos
tackles Android from multiple angles, form factors  The 2013
Consumer Electronics Show marches on and Electronista stopped by
Archos' booth to check out the French company's newest
offerings. Archos of late has been touting a number of Android
devices with novel form factors, and we spent a bit of hands-on
time with the Gamepad, Archos' dedicated gaming tablet.  The
Gamepad is an Android 4.1 device with hardware gaming controls
built in. The Gamepad caught our eye last year, with its promise
of bringing a more hardcore experience -- or at least the
potential for such -- to a mobile gaming sector that is notably
light on, well, real games.  The Gamepad packs two thumbsticks,
four face buttons, a D-pad, and two shoulder buttons, making it
about the equivalent of your standard gaming controller. Inside,
it's got a 1.6GHz dual-core processor, a quad-core Mali 400MP
GPU, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of int