iGame Radio

…but it won’t be Apple’s. Via the iPhoneGamesBulletin, Archos has announced that it will unveil the Android tablet and associated app store (called AppsLib) at an event in Paris on September 15th. The tablet will use the Google Android OS and features OpenGL graphics. Pocketables notes:

According to the development guidelines on the site, the new device (puzzlingly referred to as the Archos 5 Internet Tablet throughout) will feature a 5-inch WVGA touchscreen, 720p video support, HDMI output, and natively embedded OpenGL libraries. This is in keeping with all the early info, so it may be safe to assume that the rest of the details (up to 500GB storage, 7-hour video battery life, Cortex CPU, 3.5G connectivity) still hold true as well.

That’s a mighty nice looking tablet. And that OpenGL aspect is going to be interesting to a lot of folks, mobile developers included. Creating cool games on the Archos tablet? 3D graphics with 7 hour battery life, 3.5 G wireless, 720p video, Cortex CPU? You betcha! Especially as more and more games are going to abandon the traditional downloadable or retail box format and go to the online play method.

I hope Apple is listening. Cause that Cortex CPU is going to look mighty inviting to iPhone developers who might just want to try and hack the iPhone OS onto the tablet and see what happens. I know I would.