Xolo, the Indian smartphone brand that started out with phones based on Intel's reference design, is now pretty aggressive in the budget segment. We see a new launch from the company almost every alternate week. With Q1200, Xolo promises to add value with gesture control and software enhancements. Can the company's attempt bear fruit? We try to find out in our review.
Xolo Q1200 features a 5-inch HD IPS display (720x1280p, 294PPI), which is a LG panel, with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection to guard against minor scratches. The panel supports gestures like double tap-to-unlock and unlock-via-pattern to open a specific app. The display offers great viewing angles, vivid colours and good contrast. Images and text appear crisp and sharp and sunlight legibility is also good.
Xolo Q1200 runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, but the company has promised the Android 4.4 KitKat update in the first week of July. Unlike other Xolo phones, Q1200 has been skinned and the UI looks different from stock Android. The phone's UI, based on Kobee launcher, can be themed and some themes even eliminate the app launcher, placing all app icons and widgets on the home screen, similar to the UI seen in MiUi, Gionee and Lenovo software. It includes some transition effects as well.
The phone also offers voice commands for accepting and rejecting calls, capturing a shot with the camera, and for snoozing or silencing the alarm. We were not able to get them to work in the first go. You're really better off not using them.Xolo Q1200 sports an 8 MP rear camera with Sony Exmor R sensor, an LED flash, and a 2MP front camera. The rear camera takes good quality images in daylight, and even pictures taken indoors in less light turned out to be decent.The rear camera is capable of shooting full-HD videos and the quality was acceptable
Xolo Q1200 is powered by a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6582 quad-core processor and 1GB RAM. While using the phone, we did not encounter any hiccups while launching and switching between apps and there was not much lag except for scrolling through the notifications. The reason for this could be the custom app launcher.Casual games such as Subway Surfers run smoothly. However, we encountered some minor frame drops while playing graphics-heavy games like Asphalt 8.
In terms of synthetic benchmarks, it scored 5,871 in Quadrant Standard, 16,436 in AnTuTu, 1167 in Geekbench 3(Multi-core) and 54.1 in NenaMark 2, lagging behind Moto G by a big margin in some tests. But we'd not recommend a phone based solely on benchmarks as real world performance is different at times.Q1200 sports a 2000mAh battery and lasts a full working day (14-15 hours) with moderate to heavy use.Out of the 8GB storage, about 5GB is available to the user. You can also expand the storage with a memory card of up to 32GB.
Xolo Q1200 features a 5-inch HD IPS display (720x1280p, 294PPI), which is a LG panel, with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection to guard against minor scratches. The panel supports gestures like double tap-to-unlock and unlock-via-pattern to open a specific app. The display offers great viewing angles, vivid colours and good contrast. Images and text appear crisp and sharp and sunlight legibility is also good.
Xolo Q1200 runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, but the company has promised the Android 4.4 KitKat update in the first week of July. Unlike other Xolo phones, Q1200 has been skinned and the UI looks different from stock Android. The phone's UI, based on Kobee launcher, can be themed and some themes even eliminate the app launcher, placing all app icons and widgets on the home screen, similar to the UI seen in MiUi, Gionee and Lenovo software. It includes some transition effects as well.
The phone also offers voice commands for accepting and rejecting calls, capturing a shot with the camera, and for snoozing or silencing the alarm. We were not able to get them to work in the first go. You're really better off not using them.Xolo Q1200 sports an 8 MP rear camera with Sony Exmor R sensor, an LED flash, and a 2MP front camera. The rear camera takes good quality images in daylight, and even pictures taken indoors in less light turned out to be decent.The rear camera is capable of shooting full-HD videos and the quality was acceptable
Xolo Q1200 is powered by a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6582 quad-core processor and 1GB RAM. While using the phone, we did not encounter any hiccups while launching and switching between apps and there was not much lag except for scrolling through the notifications. The reason for this could be the custom app launcher.Casual games such as Subway Surfers run smoothly. However, we encountered some minor frame drops while playing graphics-heavy games like Asphalt 8.
In terms of synthetic benchmarks, it scored 5,871 in Quadrant Standard, 16,436 in AnTuTu, 1167 in Geekbench 3(Multi-core) and 54.1 in NenaMark 2, lagging behind Moto G by a big margin in some tests. But we'd not recommend a phone based solely on benchmarks as real world performance is different at times.Q1200 sports a 2000mAh battery and lasts a full working day (14-15 hours) with moderate to heavy use.Out of the 8GB storage, about 5GB is available to the user. You can also expand the storage with a memory card of up to 32GB.
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