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Archos’s rather cool eight gig touch screen personal media player has now hit the stores. Here’s what we made of it back at its launch in August.

A mix of chrome metals (there’s a whiff of luxury bath taps) and atmospheric lighting, it really does look stunning.

Take a look at the gallery and you’ll be able to see that it can used horizontally or vertically and customised to the user’s requirements.

It has two key features; its design, it looks like a mini flying saucer, and the fact that it is wireless so you really can site it anywhere in a room.

According to WSJ that makes Twitter worth a nice round $1 billion. Not bad for a company that hasn’t yet made any money or indeed said how it intends to make money. For reference sake Facebook, which has around 300 million users, is apparently worth around $15 billion

Bizarrely though unlike the US CLIQ there’s no Twitter client – I guess you choose your own from the Android Market – and also Mint and the highly useful TeleNav Navigator both of which feature on the CLIQ.

The specs look pretty good with the IREX DR800SG sporting an 8.1inch screen, two Gigabytes of storage, memory card expansion and a stylus input. It is black and white at the moment thought the company says it will launch a colour version next year.