ARCHOS 55 Helium Plus is a mid level Android phone, equipped with a 1 gigahertz CPU, a large 5.5 inches display, and 2 cameras, a 13 MP back-facing camera and a 5 mega-pixels front-facing camera. Let's take a better look at what this device can give us.
This device is available in two different color options, black and white. Archos has made an excellent design job making this cellphone weight only 5.93 oz. This device has a wonderful design, with a thickness of just 0.33". This device is quite a compact phone, considering it has a 5.5" screen and it has just 6.1 inches long.
The ARCHOS 55 Helium Plus includes a interesting 1280 x 720 (HD) 5.5" screen, which makes everything look very good. Its screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.
Archos decided to build this phone with a powerful processing unit speeding at 1 gigahertz, packed into a Mediatek MT6735P system chip with 1 GB of RAM. The ARCHOS 55 Helium Plus counts with an 8 GB quite big internal storage memory and an SD memory card expansion slot, allowing the user to install a couple hundred applications without running out of space.
This cellphone has two cameras, a 13 MP back facing camera and a 5 megapixels front facing camera. This phone can also shoot HD 1280x720 videos. This camera also features a couple of interesting characteristics: auto-focus, flash, face detection shooting and geo tagging.
The ARCHOS 55 Helium Plus offers Wi-Fi connectivity (although it can't share it with other devices as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE high speed data connection and also HSPA+ connectivity, which is a slower 4G variation and the fastest 3G connectivity, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. The ARCHOS 55 Helium Plus comes with 2 Micro SIM cards to be able to to work with 2 different phone lines and even different carriers in the same phone.
The ARCHOS 55 Helium Plus has an incredible 2400 mAh Li - Ion removable battery providing the ARCHOS 55 Helium Plus an impressive battery life.
This cellphone also includes a handful of cool characteristics like Bluetooth (provides communication with other cellphones, computers and accessories), GPS and Radio, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.
Archos is offering this cellphone for 249 dollars, which is not a really offer for this type of phone.
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Specifications
| Device Type: | Phone |
| Brand: | Archos |
| Operating System (OS): | Android 5.1 |
| Variant: | See other variants reviews |
| Also Known As: | ARCHOS 55 Helium + |
| Dimensions: | 6.10 x 3.07 x 0.33 inchesMetric15.49 x 7.8 x 0.84 cmImperial |
| Weight: | 5.93 ouncesMetric168.11 gImperial |
| Colors: | Black and White |
| Price: | $ 249.00 |
Display | |
| Screen Type: | IPS LCD (16M colors) |
| Size: | 5.5 inchesMetric14 cmImperial |
| Resolution: | 720 x 1280 pixels (HD) |
| Pixel density: | 267 pixels per inchMetric105.12 pixels per cmImperial |
| Touch screen: | Capacitive, Multi-touch |
Hardware | |
| Chipset: | Mediatek MT6735P |
| Processor: | ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit (Single-Core 1000 MHz) |
| RAM Memory: | 1 GB (800 MHz) |
| Graphics Processor: | Mali-T720 MP2 |
| Internal Memory: | 8 GB |
| SD Card Slot: | microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 64 GB) |
Battery | |
| Battery type: | Li - Ion |
| Removable: | Yes |
| Capacity: | 2400 mAh |
Camera | |
| Back camera: | 13 megapixels |
| Flash: | Yes |
| Front camera: | 5 megapixels |
| Max video resolution: | 1280 x 720 (HD) |
| Camera features: | Auto-Focus, Face Detection Shooting and Geo Tagging |
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, EDGE, GPRS and GSM |
Other Features | |
| Bluetooth: | Yes |
| GPS: | Yes |
| Radio: | FM Radio |
| Sensors: | Accelerometer, Compass, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor |