Archos heads to MWC with an onslaught of budget Android smartphones

By Williams Pelegrin March 1, 2015

Mobile World Congress 2024

Read our complete coverage of Mobile World Congress

archos announces budget android smartphones 52 platinum 59 xenon 62 — Image used with permission by copyright holder

In what’s becoming a trend, Archos unveiled its upcoming lineup of smartphones before Mobile World Congress officially starts on March 2. As customary with the company’s previous offerings, all of its upcoming smartphones carry budget price tags.

First up is the 50 Oxygen Plus, powered by an octa-core 1.4GHz Mediatek processor coupled with 1GB of RAM, all backed up by a Mali 450MP4. It packs a 5-inch 1280 x 720 pixel display that shows Android 4.4 KitKat in all its glory. While it’s unknown whether this 3G version will be upgraded to Android 5.0 Lollipop in the future, there will be a 4G LTE version of the 50 Oxygen Plus that will come with Lollipop out of the box.

50 Oxygen Plus 2 — 50 Oxygen Plus Image used with permission by copyright holder

The 50 Oxygen Plus is equipped with a dual SIM card setup. Interestingly, while the primary slot is used for Micro SIM cards, the second slot can be used for either Nano SIM cards or MicroSD cards up to 128GB in storage. It’ll need all the storage it can, since the handset only comes with 16GB of built-in storage, which can be used for pictures taken with the 8-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixel selfie camera.

The 3G variant of the 50 Oxygen Plus will be available this March for less than $200, while the 4G LTE version will arrive this June.

Moving on to the trifecta that is the 52 Platinum, 59 Xenon, and 62 Xenon. They all pack the same 1.3GHz quad-core Mediatek processor and 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, and MicroSD card slot for expandable storage. Even though each of them come with the same rear 8-megapixel camera, the 52 Platinum and 59 Xenon come with a 2-megapixel selfie camera while the 62 Xenon rocks a 5-megapixel front shooter.

52 Platinum 59 Xenon 62 Xenon — (from left to right) 52 Platinum, 59 Xenon, and 62 Xenon Image used with permission by copyright holder

Each of the three runs Android 4.4 KitKat shown on the same 1,280 x 720 displays, though screen size differs between the three; the 52 Platinum is equipped with a 5.25-inch screen, with the 59 Xenon and 62 Xenon equipped with 5.9-inch and 6.27-inch screens, respectively.

The 52 Platinum, 59 Xenon, and 62 Xenon will be available sometime in the near future for $145, $158, and $170, respectively.

Editors' Recommendations

Topics

Williams Pelegrin

Former Digital Trends Contributor

Williams is an avid New York Yankees fan, speaks Spanish, resides in Colorado, and has an affinity for Frosted Flakes. Send…

Mobile

The Pixel 7’s best camera trick is coming to the iPhone and all Android phones

Erasing items in Magic Eraser.

The Google Pixel series of phones, specifically the Pixel 6 and Pixel 7, have an exclusive feature called Magic Eraser. With Magic Eraser, you can get rid of unwanted objects in a photo, such as people in the background or things like power lines. As of today, Magic Eraser is becoming available to all Android phones and iPhone users through Google One.

Magic Eraser debuted on the Pixel 6 lineup, which includes the Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, and the more affordable Pixel 6a, which is still available to purchase (the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro have been discontinued). If you have a Pixel 7 or Pixel 7 Pro, you also have the Magic Eraser feature. One of the reasons I had always wanted a Pixel device is because of Magic Eraser, and it is something that I desperately wished Apple would implement.

Mobile

All the best new smartphones from MWC 2022

Oppo Find X5 Pro camera module.

Wondering which companies have released new smartphones during Mobile World Congress 2022? Due to several launches happening just before the show itself, it has been difficult to keep track, so we’ve collected the best of them here.
Oppo Find X5 Pro

Announced a few days before the start of Mobile World Congress 2022, the Oppo Find X5 Pro is one of the top flagship phones at the show. The sequel to the Find X3 Pro (don’t go looking for a Find X4, as it doesn’t exist), the phone is made from ceramic and metal and has two Sony IMX766 50-megapixel cameras on the back along with a 13MP telephoto camera.

Mobile

Honor pulls the Magic4 Pro out of its hat at MWC 2022

Honor Magic4 Pro colors.

Honor’s Magic4 and Magic4 Pro smartphones are the company’s big flagship phones for 2022, and have been announced at Mobile World Congress, the industry trade show taking place in Barcelona, Spain, this week. These two phones are packed with camera technology, the latest Qualcomm processor, and Google Mobile Services, making them very exciting. We just hope the opportunity will come for global fans to actually buy one.
Price and availability
Honor hasn't provided a final release date or any indication of availability for the Magic4 Pro or Magic4, but it has said how much they will cost. The Magic4 Pro with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage space will be 1,099 euros which is around $1,227, and the Magic4 with the same memory specs will cost 899 euros, or about $1,005. Honor's only indication of when the Magic4 phones will be available is sometime between the end of March and the end of June this year.
Magic4 Pro
The Magic4 follows the Magic3 series announced by Honor in mid-2021, and despite it being called a global launch at the time, the devices have not made it out of China yet. Now it seems likely that the Magic3 will be quickly forgotten as Honor focuses on the Magic4, but the lack of final release details makes us a little concerned the same fate awaits it.

Let’s look at the devices in detail, starting with the Honor Magic4 Pro. Like the Magic3, it is styled using Honor’s distinctive "Eye of Muse" camera module design on the back, where four sensors surround the central main camera inside a circular housing, making it look a bit like an eye. There are three cameras in total, a 50-megapixel main camera, a 50MP 122-degree wide angle camera, and a 64MP periscope zoom camera with a 3.5x optical zoom and up to 100x digital zoom. The array also has a time-of-flight sensor and a flicker sensor.