CES: Cheap Archos Power smartphones with replaceable battery

Archos at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas a new smartphone series called Power before. The mobile devices are distinguished primarily by low prices and long battery life.

The Archos 40 Power 4-inch display and the Power 50 with 5-inch display are the first smartphones of the new series. The smaller model should come in May for a suggested retail price of 69.99 euros in trade.

The first power models coming in May with screen diagonals of 4 respectively 5 inches at prices of 70 or 150 euros in the trade (Image: Archos).

The exchangeable batteries of the two smartphones have Kapzität of 1,900 or 4,000 mAh. The 40 Power should therefore hold out two days to maturity of 50 Power of producer claimed, however, no details.

Buyer of 40 Power received a smartphone with TN display, which dissolves 480 by 800 pixels (WVGA), 512 MB ​​RAM, a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor (Spreadtrum SC7731C based on ARM's Cortex-A7) with 1.2GHz and GPU Mali 400 MP4 and has 8 GB of internal memory. The latter can be expanded using microSD card up to 64 GB. The operating system is Android 5.1 is used.

The 70-euro-Smartphone sparks with UMTS, WLAN supports IEEE 802.11b / g / n, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth and has GPS and an FM radio. The camera in the front takes pictures with 2 megapixels, which. In the back with 5 megapixels The latter allows thanks to LED flash even in dark areas.

Other features include a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, light and proximity sensor, accelerometer, and a microUSB port. In addition, as with all current Archos smartphones a second SIM card slot available.

The Archos 50 Power should also come to the market in May and will cost around 150 euros. The higher price is justified by the technical equipment much better. The processor is a quad-core model Mediatek (MT6735), which is clocked at up to 1.3GHz.He is assisted by the graphics unit Mali T720 and 2 GB of RAM to the side. The internal memory falls with 16 GB of twice as large as the 4-inch model. Again, an optional extension by microSD card.

The 5-inch IPS HD display of LTE smartphones Archos 50 Power represents 1280 720 pixels, which corresponds to a pixel density of 294 ppi. The camera equipment is the 40 Power also clearly superior: In the back of a 13-megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus. The remaining functions and interfaces as well as the Dual-SIM slot are identical to the Archos 40 Power. The operating system is Android 5.1 also.