Archos seems to be making it a habit to release three new devices simultaneously in certain events. Back in CES the company introduced three budget smartwatches and just a month later it announced three smartphones at Mobile World Congress.
And this year at IFA, it’s keeping up with the trio tradition with three new devices that are again named after some element in the periodic table. The first two handsets are powered by Android – the 50b Platinum and the 45c Platinum. The two devices are almost exact copies of one another and differ only in a few components. The 50b Platinum comes with a 5-inch IPS display with qHD resolution while the smaller 45c Platinum bears a 4.5-inch IPS display with FWVGA resolution.
Both handsets come with a 1.3GH MediaTek MT852 chipset, a Mali-400MP2 GPU and half a gig of RAM. The bigger 50c comes with an 8MP+2MP camera combo, 4GB of internal storage which can be expanded via a microSD card and a 1900mAh lithium polymer battery. The smaller 45c on the other hand will come with a 5MP camera at the back and a 2MP front-facing snapper. The battery has also been downgraded to 1700mAh.
The odd one out from the bunch would be the Archos 40 Cesium. The phone has a 4-inch display, a Snapdragon 200 chipset with a quad-core processor and will run on Windows Phone 8.1.
All three phones will start shipping this September with the Archos 50c and 45c Platinum retailing for $200 and $165 respectively. Meanwhile the Archos 40 Cesium will be offered for around $130.
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