ARCHOS Hello Google Assistant Smart Display greets MWC 2018

Change over smart speakers. Smart displays exist in the house! Regarded as one of the fastest developing sectors in the tech market these times, smart speakers of all shapes, sizes, and prices have occupied together homes and store shelves. On CES previous month, Google acquired up Amazon on its Echo Show challenge plus declared a fresh subclass of attached devices: smart displays. Well late than not ever, French maker ARCHOS is assembly the fray at MWC with its Hello smart display and speaker in one. Not only that, it also has one more trendy device to supply to those still stock out for bitcoins and their kin.

You can be excused if you feel a sense of deja vu. The ARCHOS Hello will possibly call to mind the design of Lenovo Smart Display on first glance. Of course, that only lasts for a few seconds awaiting you find out how much longer and slenderer ARCHOS’ version is. Reliant on which model you get, you whichever have an 8.4-inch FHD or 7-inch HD display, using a “high fidelity” speaker that’s closely half the screen’s size.

That ensures mean, or at least is marketed, that the ARCHOS Hello is quite an adept entertainment and productivity home acquaintance. It ensures, after all, house Google Assistant intimate. In fact, it runs Android Oreo, though it leftovers to be seen just how much of that Android nature will show over. It’s not an Android powerhouse, mind, running on an unidentified quad core processor with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage. Even mid-range phones maybe have additional might than that.

 So what will you be able to do with the Hello? Away from requesting Google Assistant some queries, you can also stream music, create video calls with Google Duo by the 5-megapixel front camera, or watch YouTube for real. But if the small screen is quiet too lesser, you can easily cast it to a bigger screen, presuming you have one friendly with Google Cast. The ARCHOS Hello will go on trade in summer for 129.99 EUR ($160) for the 7-inch model also 179.99 EUR ($222) designed for the 8.4-inch one.

ARCHOS too has somewhat intended for cryptocurrency admirers on MWC 2018. Known the flow in fame and notoriety, depositors and manipulators will possibly want to protection their coins too keys. That’s whatever the puck-shaped ARCHOS Safe-T mini is for. It’s basically a hardware wallet used designed for virtual coins. Technically, it’s an offline case that stores your private keys which, in turn, contributions entrée to those coins. Simply assign the Safe-T mini to a computer through micro USB and your private keys are secure from any form of online invasion while you’re using it. And should it be physically damaged or whipped, a recovery seed key grants access towards a safe backup. The ARCHOS Safe-T mini launches in June aimed at 49.99 EUR ($62).