Where big brands are battling to stay ahead in the market with performance and unique features in the high end market segment, here in the lower segment smartphones just got better value for money as compared to those hig end phones; because they offer everything that you can expect from a high end smartphone except brand name.
Where Micromax became a big brand name in lower end segment in Indian smartphone market, where brands like Karbonn and Xolo are nevertheless behind.
Today on 6th June 2014, Xolo made it's latest and feature packed smartphone Q1200 official and will be launched on 10th June at a price of INR 13,999/- on the leading e-commerce websites: Snapdeal.com, Amazon.in and Flipkart.com.
Now it is available for prebookings at Snapdeal.
[The all new XOLO Q1200]
Before going into details let's have a look on some attractions of Xolo Q1200::
- 5.0" Full HD IPS
- 1.3 GHz Quad-core Mediatek processor
- 8.0 MP camera with Exmor R sensor
- 1GB RAM
- Android 4.2 Jelly bean (Upgradable to 4.4 Kitkat)
- 2,000 mAh battery
- Gesture control
- Voice control
- Dual window
Brands like Sony, Samsung and LG definitely packs more feature but ultimately they costs much too.
But brands like Xolo brings you ultimate user experience at an affordable price.
Of course they all target different segments in market and consumers.
In my personal opinion the Xolo has started very well in the market.
It has tried to pack unique features in lower segment smartphones starting from day 1 of it's existence when it launched with an Intel processor.
And it is still continuing its enthusiasm.
Look and feel:
The dimensions of Xolo Q1200 is 144.8 x 71.4 x 6.85 mm (H x W x T) which is the best in class in terms of thickness.
And it has a decent look.
It does not have any on-screen soft key buttons(like Google Nexus) rather it has the buttons on the bottom of the device itself.
Camera details:
At a price of INR 13,999/- (USD 240 approx.) it packs a Sony Exmor R CMOS sensor along with a bigger aperture is really a good deal along with a 2 MP decent front facing camera.
- Primary camera: 8 MP primary camera with Exmor R sensor.
- Exmor R is a back-illuminated version of Sony's CMOS image sensor.
- exmor R wiki link.
- Front facing camera: 2 MP front facing camera with a smart sensor
Performance and other features inside the Xolo Q1200:
This phone packs a Mediatek MTK 6582 chipset clocked at 1.3 GHz and Mali 400 MP2 GPU core clocked at 500 MHz.
It has 1 GB RAM to handle the applications that you run.
Yes of course 1 GB RAM seems to be low but believe me it will work just smooth.
At this price segment if you will consider Moto G, which has the same RAM memory amount and that runs pretty cool.
For the User interface, it has the default Android UI.
Value addition features:
Gesture control:
Now you don't need to touch your device to unlock.
Just wave your hand to unlock your device, browse pictures, change videos and jump tracks without touching the screen.
Waving is just a gesture based control that lets you do all this.
Voice recognition: No need to touch your phone to answer a phone call.
Dictate this smart device to use its Voice Recognition Technology to accept or reject it.
You can even snooze alarms with just one command. Say it all!
Multi window:
Float Task For Dual Window Operation.
Access your apps via Float Task on a dual window operation mode.
Pin your favorite app to the Float Task screen and it will follow you while you do other tasks.
At the end of this post I would like to say that it's not really the end rather it's a beginning.
It's a beginning towards a new era of mobile computing where the consumer is getting benefited in the war of manufacturers to stay ahead.