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ARCHOS 50c Helium 4G Review

Score: 53.8 / 100

ARCHOS 50c Helium 4G is a decent Android device, featuring a 5 inches display, an extremely powerful 1300 MHz Quad-Core 64-bit processor, and 2 cameras, a 5 mega-pixels back camera and a 0.3 megapixels front camera. Let's take a better view of what this cellphone has to offer.

The ARCHOS 50c Helium 4G comes with an exceptional 1300 megahertz Quad-Core 64-bit processing unit, included in the MediaTek MT6732 chip and only 1 GB RAM memory which is a little low for such a good cellphone. Helping with graphic calculations, it also uses an ARM Mali-T760 MP2 graphic processing unit working at 416 megahertz. The ARCHOS 50c Helium 4G has an 8 GB quite large internal storage and an external SD slot, which allows the user to store hundreds of games and apps without any trouble.

Though the ARCHOS 50c Helium 4G is just 5.75" long, it is still able to fit a a 5 inches screen. This cellphone is just 0.36 inches thick, taking it to the thinnest cellphone's category. Archos is offering the ARCHOS 50c Helium 4G in black color.

This device has a good level 5 inches screen with a 854 x 480 resolution, which makes all images and movies look quite colorful and brightful. Its screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

This phone features two cameras, a 5 megapixels back facing camera and a 0.3 mega-pixels front facing camera. The ARCHOS 50c Helium 4G also films Full HD 1920x1080 videos. To complete the camera, it also has auto-focus and flash.

The ARCHOS 50c Helium 4G provides Wi-Fi connectivity (although it can't provide it to other devices around, acting as a wireless modem), 4G (LTE) great performance connection and also HSPA+ internet connection, a bit slower 4G technology and 3G fast data connection, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The ARCHOS 50c Helium 4G comes with two Micro SIM cards to be able to to use 2 different phone lines in the same phone.

This device uses an inmense 2500 mAh Li-Polymer non-replaceable battery providing this phone an extremely long battery life. An issue to evaluate is that this phone's battery isn't replaceable so you can't change it when it starts to lose its charge, whereas having 2500 mAh you will probably discard this device before that becomes an issue.

This phone also features a few nice characteristics as Bluetooth (provides communication with other phones, computers and accessories), GPS and Radio, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This cellphone is really overvalued considering it is offerred for 249 dollars, and some similar cellphones are offerred way cheaper than that. This phone is a great option for you if you want it for gaming.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Archos
Operating System (OS):Android 4.4.4
Dimensions:5.75 x 2.89 x 0.36 inchesMetric14.61 x 7.34 x 0.91 cmImperial
Weight: ouncesMetric0 gImperial
Colors:Black
Price:$ 249.00

Display

Screen Type:IPS LCD (16M colors)
Size:5 inchesMetric12.7 cmImperial
Resolution:480 x 854 pixels
Pixel density:196 pixels per inchMetric77.17 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:MediaTek MT6732
Processor:ARM Cortex-A53 (Quad-Core 1300 MHz)
RAM Memory:1 GB
Graphics Processor:ARM Mali-T760 MP2 (Dual-Core 416 MHz)
Internal Memory:8 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 64 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li-Polymer
Removable:No
Capacity:2500 mAh

Camera

Back camera:5 megapixels
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:0.3 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (Full HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
SIM Card Type:Micro SIM
Dual SIM:Yes
LTE (4G) Bands:800 (band 20), 1800 (band 3), 2600 (band 7)
UMTS Bands:900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Yes
GPS:Yes
Radio:FM Radio
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor