Do you know that Archos is not just into the smartphones and tablet manufacturing, since June 2011 it has entered into Archos Smart Home phones which are powered with Android operating system. These home phones are just like the normal Android smartphones but to provide a different line of marketing it has got the term Home phones.
Announced in June 2011, first Archos Home phone so called Archos 35 is now available for purchase. This handset comes at a price of £ 130 and available in United Kingdom only. According to Archos, this is a fully featured handset powered with the Android operating system and provides various others features installed on it.
If you are tired of the old fashioned dect phone in your phone then you can get the next generation smartphone as replacement of your dect phones. The Archos 35 is a stylish and smart dect phone which can make your proud. It’s loaded with all the traditional functions of Dect phone like name, number memory, caller ID, hands free, intercom and additionally it gives you access to features like web, email, social network connect. It comes with download of apps and installation from AppsLib and it clearly means that there will be no access to Android Market even though the handset is Android powered.
Coming to the hardware specifications of the Archos 35, it has 3.5 inches touchscreen display and its based on the OMAP 3630 processor cloced at 1 Ghz with OpenGL ES 2.0 graphic accelerator. It includes the music playback of various formats and it has in built front facing VGA camera. The following are the important features of the smartphone –
- 3.5 inches touchscreen display
- Android 2.2 Froyo is pre-installed in it
- OMAP 3630 processor clocked at 1 Ghz
- Front Facing VGA Camera
- 1.6 Ghz dect frequency
- 8 Gb internal memory
- 126mm x 61mm x 11mm with 90 grams weight
- Micro USB 2.0 connectivity
- Micro SD card slot supporting 32 Gb of storage capacity
- Built in speaker
- 3.5 mm headphone audio jack
- Photo viewer supporting JPEG and BMP image formats
- Includes music playback with Mp3, Flac, OGG and WAV format
Archos 35 with music and video applications enriches the user experience with smooth browsing of the album covers and the homescreen of the application gives you instant access to all of your favourite media. It’s a dect ready phone where charging dock is separated from its receiver and so there is no need for huge dock next to your phone line.
With OMAP 3 processor and OpenGL 2.0 this smartphone can run full 3G games and its perfect suit for your home gaming. When there in an incoming call while you are playing game it will automatically switch to your phone.
So this handset is now available in UK for purchase. The price is set to £ 130.
