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At the heart of the 70b Helium is a quad-core Mediatek MT8735M CPU, with 1GB RAM.
While I will come to the synthetic benchmarks below, I like to touch on the real-world performance of our review tablets first. It is safe to say the 70b Helium pleasantly surprised me with how responsive it is – apps load reasonably fast for a £70 tablet, and multi-tasking is nice and smooth despite the small amount of memory. I would suggest the real-world performance is helped by the lack of extra software on the device.
My only complaint is that the 70b Helium takes a fair while to turn on – probably around a minute, if not more. An easy remedy is to not turn it off and leave it on standby – but that will drain the battery, albeit fairly slowly.
Moving on to the benchmarks. I have compared the 70b Helium with Vodafone's Smart Tab 6 which cost £125 at time of review. In Geekbench 3, the ARCHOS is only just behind its more expensive competitor, posting decent results for the money.
3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited is a similar story – with results clearly at the budget end of the spectrum, but then again, the 70b Helium is a budget device.
On the whole, I would say the benchmarks do not quite show the whole picture. For normal tablet use – emailing, watching YouTube, playing games – the 70b Helium is more than fast enough to cope.
Is it possible to use this as an occasional phone, or does the sim (from whatever carrier) only allow for data not “standard” calls?
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Well I went and purchased this.
To answer my own question, yes it does act as a full blown normal phone as well as 4G data. Overall very impressed for 70ish quid, works well and is really quite responsive. Its a bit big for a phone, but works just fine, but I would recommend getting a bluetooth to save you from looking like Dom Joly from trigger happy tv shouting into an over sized phone.