Well I had the 7HT for about 30 days and have had the A81e for about 7 days and WOW what a difference - here are some points- Battery life is a little less - I am averaging about 5-6 with full use - i.e. videos, wifi, games etc - the 7HT was about 7-8 but the A81e has extra batteries, I got 3 so I am set for traveling - only bummer is no battery widget works - I really tired about 20 of them and NONE of them read right - hopefully a firmware update fixes that- The screen is night and day - the 7HT had one of the worse screens as far as response goes and the A81 is VERY usable - not multi-touch but for $200...- Lots of games work in comparison to 7HT - almost everything I install works on the A81 and most on the 7HT ran super slow or not at all- Android 2.2 vs 1.5 - huge difference- Music - is about the same I did not notice and speed difference on the A81 but I updated the firmware before I did anything else on it- Videos - Still working on this but currently the videos that played great on the 7HT barely play on the A81 - I have tried Rockplayer and YXplayer - both struggle at the moment- MP4s at a resolution of 800 by xxx with a 23 FPS 768 kbps - lag sometimes and other times play - however the video is not super crisp- 3PG - play but the audio video is so far out of sync it is useless- MKV - play with YXplayer but frames are dropped- I am going to try a bunch of different formats the next two days before my trip and see what is the best solution - I think 480p is the safe bet- Gmail - works and works like it would on the desktop - the 7HT has issues getting new mail and I had to clear the cache almost every other day- Market - the 7HT had access to MOST of the market BUT most things did not work - The A81 has a limited market but the stuff you find does usually work - within reason i.e. no cell signal or g-sensor- Had to go with other markets out there and just email the files or transfer to SD card- Screen brightness - 7HT really worked nice here - the A81 is all over the place when I adjust the screen brightness- Speed - again night and day - not a lot of lag on the A81- Stability - neither product is really "stable" like the ipad/ipod but within reason pretty stable - few force closes and some restarts are to be expected at this point - once Samsung, LG, HTC make their tablets I think things will improve - but this is pretty early days for these things - if you are not a tech person you might want to wait till a major player releases a android tablet with 3.0- WiFi - no issues really with the A81 - seems like it is faster than the 7HT but too close to call - but skyfire runs much smoother on the A81- App space - the 7HT has a TINY app partition by default - there is a firmware hack to add more but I has already decided to ditch it by that point - the A81 has more space but it seems like App2Sd will be around the corner - anyone got SDmove working??- Screen - I think the screen is better on the 7HT - visually I mean but I base that on the video play back which might not be fair to the A81 because of the video play back issues - the difference is small- Form - I really liked the size of the 7Ht is was super thin and pretty light and had a metal back and looked more professional - the A81 is plastic and looks cheaper- Cases - 7HT - good luck finding a well fitting case - A81 comes with a case- GPS - 7HT -none - A81 has the gps but I tried iGo and Copilot and neither are practical for driving the GPS signal is too slow to update - I hope a firmware update addresses thisDid I miss something - let me knowJust my 2 cents - but I have/had a ipod touch, droid, iphone, blackberry, windows mobile phone, 7HT - I shopped around a lot and looked at just about every tablet out there and these tablets all seem like they have some issues one way or the other - BUT wits releases firmware very often and it seems like things are getting better and I never felt like Archos really cared about the product after the release - and now the 8th gens are coming out before the end of the year so the 7HT is dead and the chipset will not support anything higher than 1.5 (based on other forum posts)Would I buy it again - yes but I think as soon as some of the other tablets are out - galaxy S, notion ink, dell streak 7, ipad 7 - I might sell this and move to those - but that will likely be November/December or even next year before that happens and I am WAY too impatience for that! Hope that helps