![]() Gaming is what the XOLO Play calls it’s USP (Unique Selling Proposition), and it was the feature I was most interested in, especially considering the modest price the phone carries. Why move away from the default Android Contacts app? Gaming on the Phone XOLO’s proprietary Contacts app is a gimmick too, to say the least. The user experience is cumbersome and uncomfortable. I have never had such a flimsy mobile phone experience.Ī Tegra 3 processor doesn’t really make much sense in the XOLO Play, since the phone is flawed at the most fundamental levels. I kept the phone for a week only for the purposes of a review, and that week was one of the toughest in recent memory. Slowdowns, delays and random freezes are common. I’m not the one to say, but how was XOLO thinking to pull off a gaming device with just 1 gig of RAM? It’s amusing on one side and equally disappointing on the other. If you use SwiftKey, a popular Android third-party keyboard, it alone consumes 200-250MB of RAM. 1 GB of RAM in this day and age is archaic, why can’t manufacturers just realize that! Demon’s Score, a Tegra based game alone consumes 600 MB of RAM. The 1 GB of RAM is definitely a bottleneck, wouldn’t have hurt the Lava guys to go for 1 more gig. Yes, the XOLO Play features a 1.5Ghz quad core processor, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a smooth OS performance. Gah! There was also this random flicker on the top corner of the screen, which kept switching on and off randomly. I placed so many random calls to random people on my contacts list without even realizing it. And this wasn’t a one time thing, it was frequent. Hell, the phone started registering random touches on its own. Half of the times your presses and clicks do not register. Speaking about deal breakers, the quality of the glass panel is what really bugged me. Not saying that its a deal breaker, but it is just not upto the mark of other similar handsets. The visibility under sunlight is at most below average. But there isn’t any functional use to the display lushness, since the build of the screen is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. The XOLO Play’s screen produces lush and vibrant colours. Watching a movie, playing a game, browsing through pictures all look beautiful. The display is huge (4.7 inches) and supports a high resolution (1280 x 720 pixels). That makes the phone very prone to breakage and very sensitive to static and moisture. This suggest the presence of voids, loosely fitted components or large hollow spaces inside the phone, and that is a bad thing. When the XOLO Play vibrates, a high pitched hiss is what it emits. Doing some research, Tech2 mentions that the XOLO Play is a carbon copy of a Chinese handset, the Beidou Little Pepper Q1, both internally and externally. This would pass off as a cheap unbranded front panel. The front panel is also very prone to smudges. XOLO doesn’t specify the glass being used in the front panel, and knuckling it with my index finger the protrusions are plenty. Throwing first impressions aside, some major flaws become evident. The good thing is, holding the phone in your palm feels sturdy, as this phone presents a heavy and strong build. The rear is a matte finish rubberized plastic, which is of decent quality. The front is straight forward, with three touch buttons for Home, Back and Menu. There is nothing standing out in any aspect of the phone’s build. CPU: 1.5Ghz Nvidia Tegra 3 quad core processor.Display: 4.7-inch display (1280 x 720 pixels).At that price, we couldn’t wait to get our hands on this phone. Tegra games are awesome, providing almost console like quality on a smartphone or a tablet. Likewise, the XOLO Play T1000 turned many eyebrows post it’s announcement, and it most definitely got us super excited. All in a handset costing INR 15,000 (Snapdeal is selling for INR 13,500). So the Tegra 3 is by no means just any other GPU, it is aimed at providing quality gaming performance in quality handsets. Both of them are top-notch performance devices. Other models include the HTX One X and the Motorola Droid X2. To give you a little background about the Tegra 3, this is the same chipset used in the Android gaming console, the Ouya. The XOLO Play T1000 features a Tegra 3 chipset. ![]() ![]() So hello to the Tegraįor the first time in the Indian mobile phone history, an Indian company has tied up with chip architect Nvidia to launch a device that sports the Tegra chipset. Many stick to the tried and tested Mediatek chipset, but the XOLO Play T1000 is willing to take the leap of faith. And this is in uncharted waters, as serious multimedia performance is often overlooked by local mobile phone brands. XOLO, a brand emerging as an initiative by Lava International to enter into the performance segment, shows a lot of promise.
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