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Budget smartphone Archos Diamond from France


New low cost smartphone Archos Diamond completelychanges our understanding of technology world leaders. This is one of the first examples when Archos, a European manufacturer, is copying a Chinese smartphone. Announced a few months ago, the Vivo Nex smartphone interested consumers with the original design of the retractable camera and full-screen design. However, the price of the gadget was too high.

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From now on, the French company Archos supplies tothe market is almost copied from the Chinese Vivo Nex smartphone at a reasonable price for ordinary users at 299 euros with a similar camera extension mechanism.

In terms of technical stuffing Archos Diamondnot something special. The smartphone has an 8-core MediaTek Helio P70 processor, which significantly reduces the cost. 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of main memory are available, which is quite a lot for devices in this price category.
Under the screen AMOLED display identifier is setfingerprints. The screen diagonal is 6.39 inches, and the aspect ratio is 19.5: 9. The main camera is a double (16 megapixels and 5 megapixels f / 1.8 aperture) with Sony IMX 499 sensors. The 8 megapixel Samsung camera is used for the retractable periscope.


Power to the smartphone provides a battery with3400 mAh capacity and charging via USB-C port. The smartphone also provides a standard set of wireless technologies 4G LTE, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and NFC. The device works under Android 9.0 Pie.

It is assumed that the company Archos, previouslyfamous only for cheap computers, tablets and smartphones on the European market, will contribute to the development of new technology of self-camera work instead of the screens traditionally located in the “eyebrows” or “bangs” of the screen and affecting the screen size.