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Archos smartphones. Archos company - high quality French gadgets Archos phones manufacturer

Slogans: Entertainment your way (current slogan)
Think Smaller (very first slogan)
On The Go (second slogan)

The history of this French manufacturer of portable electronics began in 1988. The company was founded by a certain Henri Crohas. The official legend says that the name Archos(read as "arcus") is an anagram of the founder's surname and, at the same time, a Greek word «αρχος» – "master".

The company is best known as a manufacturer of audio players with high-capacity storage devices - Archos was one of the first to produce players with a hard drive as a storage medium. But, having a number of advantages, these devices were not able to seriously compete with the iPod, which came to the market a little later. The reason is often given as exceptional appearance"Apple" device. Solutions from Archos, which were technically superior to it (for example, it was possible to connect external media), did not differ in such elegance.

In 2002 Archos introduces a new term, which later became quite popular. This PMP – Portable Media Player ("portable media player"). This abbreviation arose due to the need to characterize the company's products. Subsequently, it is born PVP – Portable Video Player.

Today, the company's product range also includes various Internet tablets that run both Windows 7 and Google Android . Many of them use hard disks, which gives the user the opportunity to work with huge amounts of information. These devices are often called portable entertainment centers. Some of them are capable of receiving television signals.

The company also developed a phone model, presented at the beginning of 2010 - Phone Tablet. At the same time, the founder of the company said that the model would go on sale only if it was possible to reach an agreement with the operators. Apparently this was never done.

The company entered the Russian market in 1998. Initially, it supplied only various computer peripherals to the market. Sales of multimedia devices began a little later - after they were adapted to the Russian language.

Main market Archos- Europe. However, the company's products are also available in the USA, where they are supplied under the brand PocketDish and are supplied in television operator packages Dish Network Corporation, which since 2004 has been the owner of a fifth of the shares Archos.

The company also owns the brand Arnova, under which they are issued tablet computers, not very productive and with little functionality, but well-built and inexpensive. This is a product from the lower segment of this market.

head office Archos located in Igny, France.

Archos is a French manufacturer of portable equipment. The main sales market for Archos is Western Europe, however, the company's products are also represented in Russia. This company is better known to domestic buyers for peripheral devices for laptop computers (CD-ROM and HDD drives) than for smartphones and tablets.

Archos pays great attention to innovative developments. For example, Arhos was one of the first to produce MP3 players with a hard drive as a storage medium, and in 2015 introduced Personal Computer the size of a matchbox.

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Review of Archos smartphone lines

Archos company offers smartphones in the following lines:

Power. The highlight of this line of smartphones is their capacious batteries. The series includes two latest models: Power 40 And Power 50 . Model 40 It is considered budget, but despite this, it is quite productive - “on board” is a quad-core Cortex A-7 processor operating at a frequency of 1.2 GHz. Battery capacity Power 40 is 1900 Ma - it seems that this is not much, but with the existing functionality the smartphone will work without recharging for 2-3 days. Power 50 is equipped with a 4000 mA battery, but its cost is almost three times higher than the 40th model.
Cobalt. The distinctive feature of these mobile phones Archos – unusual body colors. Cobalt smartphones are available in bright blue and dark gray shades. From the point of view of the “filling”, these are fairly average devices with a low cost.
Diamond. This is a line of premium smartphones. In March 2016, two new models were introduced - Diamond 2 Note And Diamond 2 Plus with many interesting technical solutions. For example, thanks to Doze energy-saving technology, the smartphone consumes almost no energy while it is in a locked state, and allows you to “fill” the battery from zero to 80% in just 45 minutes.

Why are Archos catalog gadgets not popular in Russia?

Archos are difficult to find in Russian communication stores due to their high cost, which is due to their “noble” Western European origin. New Diamond 2 Note at the start of sales will have a cost of about 40 thousand rubles - naturally, for the same amount a domestic buyer will prefer to purchase

In my opinion, there is no need to buy Archos smartphones in Russia. Below I will tell you why. Again, I repeat - this is my opinion, which may not coincide with the opinion of the manufacturer or your opinion.

What is Archos and where to buy it

Archos is a fairly well-known French smartphone manufacturer that has established sales of its products around the world, including in Russia. There are no complaints about this; you can buy Archos smartphones in any store, such as Svyaznoy, DNS, and so on.

What's the problem, you ask? And the whole point is that when you buy a smartphone from Archos, you are left alone with your smartphone. It’s as if the Archos company is no longer in business.

Finding a contact phone number to call directly to an Archos representative or their office, or maybe an official (non-partner ASC) service center is simply unrealistic. There is no such information on their official website. But first things first.

Where is the Archos service center?

So I had a warranty issue with the Archos 55 Helium Plus. In particular, if you are interested, there is a factory defect in the camera, and speaking specifically, when shooting in the dark or in a room with insufficient lighting, the device’s matrix begins to frankly “dull” and draw a multi-colored line right in the center of the photo. This happens when taking absolutely any photograph, the main condition is that the shooting must take place in the dark.

It would be logical to assume that it is necessary to return this device under warranty to an authorized service center or give it to the seller.

The decision was made to take the phone to an authorized service center. Firstly, it’s faster, whatever one may say, despite the fact that the law gives 45 days for repairs, if you take the product to an authorized service center, the repair or write-off of the device usually goes faster.

Authorized service center only in Moscow

I went to the manufacturer's official website to find out the list of service centers that are in my city. I live in the city of Orel. As it turns out, there are no Archos service centers in my city. I will say more, on the official Archos website there are no addresses of service centers at all. And also there is no contact phone number that you could call and find out the address of the service center, at least in Moscow. It’s clear that I wouldn’t take this phone myself to Moscow, but would send it through the seller. Which is what I did.

By the way, who cares? telephone number of the Archos service center in Moscow - +7 495 276-22-11, but be careful, the managers have absolutely no knowledge of the law on consumer protection. Most likely, the whole point is that this is not a branded service center of this company. In my opinion, they entered into an agreement with someone to provide services. In my experience of repairs in such services, the repair consists of the following: waiting for the part for 45 days and writing off on the 46th day, as well as writing off during the first week.

For those interested, I found this phone number inside the package with the phone. Interesting, isn't it? So the company doesn't want new customers calling? Hmm, very strange.

Why was the consumer protection law invented?

The whole situation is aggravated by the fact that the product did not work even a week after purchase. At the same time, the manager of this service center actively rubbed into me that we only take the phone for repairs. To my question that the phone did not work for a week and I would like to refuse this phone and return the money, they answered me - the money will be returned to you in the store.

Great, but someone also needs to return the money to the store for this phone. I asked who would return the money for the phone to the store. After all, they will no longer be able to sell it, since the packaging has been opened, it has already been used, and so on. And do you know what the answer was? I don't know. No, I (the author) of course know - this was the manager’s answer.

Lastly...

If representatives of the Archos company read this post, then I want to say the following - it’s not enough to sell phones, you also need to provide after-sales service. Why do people buy Samsung, Apple and so on? It's all about repairs. There are a sea of service centers, they repair within a week, they clearly know the answers to the questions posed regarding the repair.

As for the phone, my review is as follows - terrible camera and terrible display. It is clear that for 6,500 thousand rubles you should not expect anything more, but you also do not need to spend this money.

That is, there is no problem as such. But the whole point is that for some reason this company really wants to hide its contact information. After all, there are problems that you want to solve the faster, the better. And one of these problems is handing over the device under warranty. I don't want to write to email and still have to wait a few days for an answer.

Slogans: Entertainment your way (current slogan)
Think Smaller (very first slogan)
On The Go (second slogan)

The company is best known as a manufacturer of audio players with high-capacity storage devices - Archos was one of the first to produce players with a hard drive as a storage medium. But, having a number of advantages, these devices were not able to seriously compete with the iPod, which came to the market a little later. The reason is often cited as the exceptional appearance of the Apple device. Solutions from Archos, which were technically superior to it (for example, it was possible to connect external media), did not differ in such elegance.

Today, the company's product range also includes various Internet tablets that run both Windows 7 and Google Android. Many of them use hard drives, which gives the user the opportunity to work with huge amounts of information. These devices are often called portable entertainment centers. Some of them are capable of receiving television signals.

The company also owns the brand Arnova, under which tablet computers are produced that are not very productive and have little functionality, but are well-built and inexpensive. This is a product from the lower segment of this market.

head office Archos located in Igny, France.

ARCHOS(pronounced Arcos, [ɑrkoʊs]) - French manufacturer mobile devices and “smart gadgets”, founded in 1988 by Henri Croix (fr. Henri Crohas). ARCHOS has developed a range of products including portable audio and video players, digital video recorders, smartphones and internet tablets. The company produces a wide range of mobile devices - both under its own brand and as an OEM manufacturer (for brands such as Gionee, Micromax, Intex, Lava).

The company's slogan was eventually changed from "Think Smaller" to "On The Go". Currently, the company's slogan is "Entertainment your way."

The company name is an anagram of the founder's last name (Crohas), and it is also the Greek for "master" (αρχος).

history of the company

Products

Smartphone lines

Diamond
Helium – 4G smartphones
Cesium – smartphones running OS Windows
Oxygen
Platinum
Titanium
Xenon
Cobalt
Power – smartphones with high-capacity batteries

Tablet lines

Diamond
Magnus – tablets with large volume internal memory
Helium – tablets with 4G support
Cesium – tablets running OS Windows
Oxygen
Platinum
Titanium
Xenon
Copper
PC Stick is a personal computer running OS Windows, equipped with Intel processor Atom

Connectable devices

ARCHOS Smart Home - A tablet based on Android OS easily controls and links several miniature wireless devices(CCTV cameras, temperature sensors) in your home for automatic receipt information about your home.
ARCHOS VR Glasses – virtual reality glasses
ARCHOS Music Light – energy saving LED lamp, which can play music from a mobile device using Bluetoth
ARCHOS Music Beany - wireless headset, built into a knitted hat.

Key Innovations

ARCHOS Fusion Storage - software solution, developed by ARCHOS engineers, which combines the device’s built-in memory with microSD card. After activating the combined storage, the data is automatically transferred to the internal memory of the smartphone or tablet and then sorted. Application files will continue to be stored in the internal memory, and photos, video files and other content will be located on the memory card. The user can return the settings to normal separate data storage at any time.

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The princess made a mistake in her answer.
- Well, why not be a fool! - the prince shouted, pushing away the notebook and quickly turning away, but immediately stood up, walked around, touched the princess’s hair with his hands and sat down again.
He moved closer and continued his interpretation.
“It’s impossible, princess, it’s impossible,” he said when the princess, having taken and closed the notebook with the assigned lessons, was already preparing to leave, “mathematics is a great thing, my madam.” And I don’t want you to be like our stupid ladies. Will endure and fall in love. “He patted her cheek with his hand. - The nonsense will jump out of your head.
She wanted to go out, he stopped her with a gesture and took out a new uncut book from the high table.
- Here’s another Key of the Sacrament your Eloise sends you. Religious. And I don’t interfere with anyone’s faith... I looked through it. Take it. Well, go, go!
He patted her on the shoulder and locked the door behind her.
Princess Marya returned to her room with a sad, frightened expression that rarely left her and made her ugly, sickly face even more ugly, and sat down at her desk, lined with miniature portraits and littered with notebooks and books. The princess was as disorderly as her father was decent. She put down her geometry notebook and impatiently opened the letter. The letter was from the princess’s closest friend since childhood; this friend was the same Julie Karagina who was at the Rostovs’ name day:
Julie wrote:
"Chere et excellente amie, quelle chose terrible et effrayante que l"absence! J"ai beau me dire que la moitie de mon existence et de mon bonheur est en vous, que malgre la distance qui nous separe, nos coeurs sont unis par des liens indissolubles; le mien se revolte contre la destinee, et je ne puis, malgre les plaisirs et les distractions qui m"entourent, vaincre une certaine tristesse cachee que je ressens au fond du coeur depuis notre separation. Pourquoi ne sommes nous pas reunies, comme cet ete dans votre grand cabinet sur le canape bleu, le canape a confidences? Pourquoi ne puis je, comme il y a trois mois, puiser de nouvelles forces morales dans votre regard si doux, si calme et si penetrant, regard que j"aimais tant et que “je crois voir devant moi, quand je vous ecris.”
[Dear and priceless friend, what a terrible and terrible thing is separation! No matter how much I tell myself that half of my existence and my happiness lies in you, that, despite the distance that separates us, our hearts are united by inextricable bonds, my heart rebels against fate, and, despite the pleasures and distractions that surround me, I I cannot suppress some hidden sadness that I have been experiencing in the depths of my heart since our separation. Why aren’t we together, like last summer, in your big office, on the blue sofa, on the sofa of “confessions”? Why can’t I, like three months ago, draw new moral strength from your gaze, meek, calm and penetrating, which I loved so much and which I see before me at the moment I write to you?]
Having read up to this point, Princess Marya sighed and looked back at the dressing table, which stood to her right. The mirror reflected an ugly, weak body and a thin face. The eyes, always sad, now looked at themselves in the mirror especially hopelessly. “She flatters me,” thought the princess, turned away and continued reading. Julie, however, did not flatter her friend: indeed, the princess’s eyes, large, deep and radiant (as if rays of warm light sometimes came out of them in sheaves), were so beautiful that very often, despite the ugliness of her whole face, these eyes became more attractive than beauty. But the princess had never seen a good expression in her eyes, the expression they took on in those moments when she was not thinking about herself. Like all people, her face took on a tense, unnatural, bad expression as soon as she looked in the mirror. She continued reading: 211
“Tout Moscou ne parle que guerre. L"un de mes deux freres est deja a l"etranger, l"autre est avec la garde, qui se met en Marieche vers la frontiere. Notre cher empereur a quitte Petersbourg et, a ce qu"on pretend, compte lui meme exposer sa precieuse existence aux chances de la guerre. Du veuille que le monstre corsicain, qui detruit le repos de l"Europe, soit terrasse par l"ange que le Tout Puissant, dans Sa misericorde, nous a donnee pour souverain. Sans parler de mes freres, cette guerre m"a privee d"une relation des plus cheres a mon coeur. Je parle du jeune Nicolas Rostoff, qui avec son enthousiasme n"a pu supporter l"inaction et a quitte l"universite pour aller s"enroler dans l"armee. Eh bien, chere Marieie, je vous avouerai, que, malgre son extreme Jeunesse, son depart pour l "armee a ete un grand chagrin pour moi. Le jeune homme, dont je vous parlais cet ete, a tant de noblesse, de veritable jeunesse qu"on rencontre si rarement dans le siecle ou nous vivons parmi nos villards de vingt ans. Il a surtout tant de franchise et de coeur. Il est tellement pur et poetique, que mes relations avec lui, quelque passageres qu"elles fussent, ont ete l"une des plus douees jouissances de mon pauvre coeur, qui a deja tant souffert. Je vous raconterai un jour nos adieux et tout ce qui s "est dit en partant. Tout cela est encore trop frais. Ah! Chere amie, vous etes heureuse de ne pas connaitre ces jouissances et ces peines si poignantes. Vous etes heureuse, puisque les derienieres sont ordinairement les plus fortes! Je sais fort bien, que le comte Nicolas est trop jeune pour pouvoir jamais devenir pour moi quelque chose de plus qu"un ami, mais cette douee amitie, ces relations si poetiques et si pures ont ete un besoin pour mon coeur. Mais n" en parlons plus. La grande nouvelle du jour qui occupe tout Moscou est la mort du vieux comte Earless et son heritage. Figurez vous que les trois princesses n"ont recu que tres peu de chose, le prince Basile rien, est que c"est M. Pierre qui a tout herite, et qui par dessus le Marieche a ete reconnu pour fils legitime, par consequent comte Earless est possesseur de la plus belle fortune de la Russie. On pretend que le prince Basile a joue un tres vilain role dans toute cette histoire et qu"il est reparti tout penaud pour Petersbourg.
“Je vous avoue, que je comprends tres peu toutes ces affaires de legs et de testament; ce que je sais, c"est que depuis que le jeune homme que nous connaissions tous sous le nom de M. Pierre les tout court est devenu comte Earless et possesseur de l"une des plus grandes fortunes de la Russie, je m"amuse fort a observer les changes de ton et des manieres des mamans accablees de filles a Marieier et des demoiselles elles memes a l "egard de cet individu, qui, par parenthese, m" a paru toujours etre un pauvre, sire. Comme on s"amuse depuis deux ans a me donner des promis que je ne connais pas le plus souvent, la chronique matrimoniale de Moscow me fait comtesse Earless. Mais vous sentez bien que je ne me souc nullement de le devenir. A propos de Marieiage, savez vous que tout derienierement la tante en general Anna Mikhailovna, m"a confie sous le sceau du plus grand secret un projet de Marieiage pour vous. Ce n"est ni plus, ni moins, que le fils du prince Basile, Anatole, qu"on voudrait ranger en le Marieiant a une personne riche et distinguee, et c"est sur vous qu"est tombe le choix des parents. Je ne sais comment vous envisagerez la chose, mais j"ai cru de mon devoir de vous en avertir. On le dit tres beau et tres mauvais sujet; c"est tout ce que j"ai pu savoir sur son compte.

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