Well it didn’t take long for the Hero replacement to come. More interestingly, it didn’t take Meteor Ireland to get a hold of theirs weeks before most of the international mobile networks. Kudos to them and their magic working commercial director. Since they launched the Hero, I have had one and loved the phone so much. Between apps and features, it keeps me “busy” all the time. But can it be better? Hmmm, well...

Archos has just announced its brand new 7- and 8-inch Home Tablets, which both run Android and cost €149 ($203). For that layout, you’ll get a 600MHz ARM 9 processor, which won’t be breaking any (positive) records, but the Archos 7 you see above is a very svelte 12mm thin and weighs only 350g, making it an ideal web reading device if not a particularly potent multimedia consumer. You also get WiFi, 2GB of...