http://www.archos.co...ountry=us&lang=en
Just ordered for $280 at B&H.
I had the 250 GB hard drive version in my shopping cart, but it can't charge through the USB port so one has to bring along a power brick. And there's the lack of durability in hard drives... Since there is a Micro SDHC port, one can add lots of additional storage easily. I got a couple of 32 GB Micro SDHC cards, a micro USB cable, and a $30 case and screen protector to go with it.
It can be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.x) so it will be fairly up-to-date.
I wanted to get J something small, light and portable for travel. She still likes her Dell Mini9 Hackintosh, but it can't be used with the latest version of MacOffice (for viewing PPT files, etc., and she's had some corruption issues moving PPT files between MacOffice versions). The Archos 80 is smaller than the Mini9 and our iPad v1, has more storage, is more easily interfaced with other devices, is cheaper, and has at least rudimentary Android PPT and PDF viewers (for conferences).
Plus it'll let me play with Android and see whether it makes sense to consider when I finally replace my Palm phone/PDA. ;-)
Here's hoping that it works at least approximately as well as the specs indicate. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.