We live in an ultra-connected world, where the previously strictly-enforced boundaries between various types of products are starting to slowly melt away. After all, we're seeing a lot of products endowed with all sorts of extra features and functions that push a lot further their levels of functionality being developed and launched, especially in the area of portable and communication devices.

This applies especially well in the area of mobile phones in general and smartphones in particulars, these tiny handhelds now providing a very large number of Internet-related functions, starting from browsing capabilities and going up to e-mail support, widgets, content streaming and a lot more. But what if we wanted to get a cool, yet not “smart” phone, while also being able to remain constantly online and up-to-date, with a permanent Internet connection?

Well, the answer is pretty simple – get an Internet tablet for all the Internet-related functions one might need while being on the go. Unfortunately, right now, the market for this brand of devices is not exactly very well-developed, as “the best is yet to come” in the near future. However, we've been able to pinpoint at least a couple of products that actually fit the profile of the device we were looking for, including here the one you'll read about as follows, namely the Archos 5G tablet.

We've had the chance to actually test the Archos 5G Media Tablet (or Internet Media Tablet, as we prefer to call it) for a longer period of time, but, right from the start, we'll have to tell you that we're talking about the slightly older model, the one that managed to find its way in stores at the end of 2008/early 2009, rather than the new, Android-running version.

However, even if we're talking about an older model, the 5G provided us with enough information to have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the Android-running version, at least in terms of hardware behavior. Plus, we've got to hand it to Archos, they can really build some mean, high-end PMPs, since the multimedia playback features of the 5G are equally if not more impressive than its Internet-related ones.