Xolo BLACK 1X Unboxing, First Impressions and Photo Gallery

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Xolo launched the BLACK 1X, the company’s latest smartphone in the BLACK series earlier today, priced at Rs. 9999. It will go on sale on Snapdeal through flash sale starting from November 6th. We got our hands on the smartphone, here is the unboxing and first impressions of the smartphone.

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Xolo BLACK 1X with 5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 9999

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Xolo just launched BLACK 1X, its second BLACK series smartphone, as it promised last week. It packs a 5-inch 1080p display with Asahi Dragon trail Glass protection, is powered by an Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 SoC and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with HIVE Atlas UI on top. Xolo has promised that it will be upgradable to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) in future, but no details about the time frame yet. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF) that lets you focus in just 0.15 seconds, LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash. Continue reading “Xolo BLACK 1X with 5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 9999”

Xolo BLACK 1X launching on October 28

Xolo Black 1X launch invite

Xolo has sent out invite for the launch its new BLACK series smartphone that will called the BLACK 1X. The invite doesn’t reveal any details about the new BLACK series smartphone. The company will unveil the smartphone on Twitter (@MyXOLO) on October 28th from 12PM to 1PM, similar to what it did for the Omega series smartphones back in December last year. Continue reading “Xolo BLACK 1X launching on October 28”

Xolo Black Battery Life Test

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We reviewed the Xolo Black recently, which is the first smartphone in Xolo’s online-only Black series. Here we have the battery life test results of the smartphone. The Xolo Black packs a built-in 3200 mAh Li-Ion battery. It supports Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 1.0 that lets you charge 50% of battery in just 60 minutes. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p screen and is powered by a 2nd generation Snapdragon 615 SoC. Let’s check out the results.

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XOLO Black Review

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XOLO Black is the first smartphone from XOLO that is part of the Black series of smartphones that are aimed at online retail markets. Calling the series Black and the smartphone Black as well makes it quite confusing for the customer and it will become more so when it is time to launch the next phone in the Black series. That is expected to be sometime soon as the company did state that it has plans to launch around 4 devices per year. We aren’t sure what naming scheme the company plans for the upcoming devices but what we do know is what the XOLO Black offers and it seems to offer plenty judging by its specifications sheet. Let’s dive into the review and see if it actually does live upto expectations in real life. Continue reading “XOLO Black Review”

Xolo BLACK Camera Samples

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Xolo launched its BLACK smartphone for Rs. 12,999 last month. We already brought you the hands-on impressions, unboxing and the benchmarks of the smartphone, here we have the camera samples. The Xolo BLACK has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 5-element lens, f/2.0 aperture and an additional 2-megapixel secondary camera with 3-element lens and f/2.4 aperture for capturing depth information. It also has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash, 5-element lens and f/2.0 aperture. Continue reading “Xolo BLACK Camera Samples”

Xolo BLACK Benchmarks

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Xolo launched its BLACK smartphone for Rs. 12999 couple of weeks back. We already brought you the hands-on impressions, unboxing and the photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by a second-generation Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 64-bit processor that has four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.5 GHz per core and other four Cortex A53 cores are clocked at 1.1 GHz per core. It has Adreno 405 GPU clocked at 550 MHz, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 5.5-inch 1080p screen and runs on HIVE Atlas UI based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores below.

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Xolo Black Unboxing

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Xolo launched its Black smartphone last week for Rs. 12,999, which went on sale earlier this week exclusively on Flipkart. We already brought you the hands-on impressions and photo gallery of the smartphone from the launch event, here we have its unboxing.

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Xolo BLACK Hands On and Photo Gallery

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After teasing for quite some time, Xolo finally launched its first smartphone under BLACK sub-brand at an event in Delhi on Friday. We spent some time with the device and here are our first impressions. Continue reading “Xolo BLACK Hands On and Photo Gallery”

Xolo BLACK with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 615 SoC, 4G LTE launched for Rs. 12999

Xolo Black

Xolo just launched its first smartphone under BLACK sub-brand. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by a 2nd-gen Octa-Core Snapdragon 615 SoC and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) with HIVE Atlas UI on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera along with a secondary 2-megapixel camera for depth mapping that lets you click the image first and adjust the focus later. Xolo is calling this UbiFocus. It can focus in 0.15 seconds and the ChromaFlash lets you retain original color and skin tone even in low-lighting conditions, says the company. It also has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash.

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Xolo Era with 5-inch display, quad-core processor, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 4444

Xolo Era

Xolo has launched Xolo Era, the company’s latest budget smartphone. It has a 5-inch FWVGA display, is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Xolo Era with 5-inch display, quad-core processor, 1GB RAM launched for Rs. 4444”

Xolo partners with Vodafone to promote upcoming BLACK smartphone

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Vodafone India has announced an exclusive partnership with Xolo to promote its first device from upcoming online-only sub-brand BLACK, launching this Friday – July 10. Continue reading “Xolo partners with Vodafone to promote upcoming BLACK smartphone”

Xolo BLACK smartphone launching on July 10

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Xolo has finally announced that it will launch its first BLACK series smartphone on July 10th. It announced the online-only sub-brand in May. The smartphone was expected to be introduced in June. The company teased the smartphone’s dual rear cameras, smudge-free design and brushed metal frame recently. Continue reading “Xolo BLACK smartphone launching on July 10”

Xolo Cube 5.0 2GB RAM variant launched for Rs. 8888

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Xolo launched the Cube 5.0 earlier this month. Now the company has launched a variant of the smartphone with 2GB RAM, instead of 1GB RAM and a 5MP front-facing camera, instead of 2MP camera. Other specifications are the same, including a 5-inch HD OGS display with 85% NTSC color gamut that promises ultra-high color contrasts and vivid colors, Dragontrail Glass protection,1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582M processor and runs on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Continue reading “Xolo Cube 5.0 2GB RAM variant launched for Rs. 8888”