Hands on with the Xolo and Nexian Air Chromebooks

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The Chromebook is Google’s play on low cost internet connected machines that run on Chrome OS. Today, the company launched a couple of new products based on the Chrome OS platform. The Nexian Air and Xolo Chromebooks offer a low price point and powerful enough internals to ensure fluid performance. We spent some time with the devices to see how well they compare to their Windows running brethren.  Continue reading “Hands on with the Xolo and Nexian Air Chromebooks”

Weekly Roundup: YU Yuphoria, YuFit, HealthYU, Google Chromebooks, Microsoft Lumia 540, OnePlus Power Bank and more

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Biggest announcement this week came from Micromax’s YU Televentures. The company launched three devices in India – Yu Yuphoria smartphone, YuFit fitness tracker, and HealthYU cassette. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: YU Yuphoria, YuFit, HealthYU, Google Chromebooks, Microsoft Lumia 540, OnePlus Power Bank and more”

Xolo offers free JBL headphones worth Rs 1,999 with select devices

Xolo has announced that it will offer free JBL headphones worth Rs 1,999 on purchase of selected devices. The limited period offer can be availed on purchase of five Xolo devices Q1200, Q1010i, 8X-1000 (with HIVE Inside), Play 8X-1100 & Q1020.

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Xolo puts up spare parts pricing for all of its devices

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It often boggles us to hear about the high price tags all the smartphone spares carry. However, there is no telling how much a specific part would cost you and most of us go by the word from the service team. As it turns, more often than not, we wouldn’t even know if we are being charged the official price by the service centers. Continue reading “Xolo puts up spare parts pricing for all of its devices”

XOLO 8X-1000 with HIVE UI Hands On & Photo Gallery

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XOLO’s much hyped HIVE UI today made its debut on a single piece of hardware ie the XOLO 8X-1000. Reasons abound why XOLO as a company decided to invest both time and a fair bit of money on developing a completely customized ROM but truth be told, we’re not entirely convinced by the reasoning. We’ll talk about that and more as we explore the new XOLO 8X-1000. Continue reading “XOLO 8X-1000 with HIVE UI Hands On & Photo Gallery”

Flipkart accidentally ships Android Xolo Q900s instead of Windows Phone model

In a surprising incident, a customer who had ordered Windows Phone powered Xolo Q900s has received an Android variant of the same device from Flipkart. Xolo unveiled the Android version of the Q900s last week almost a month after launching a Windows model of the same variant.

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Xolo to reportedly launch flagship smartphone with Hive UI in July

Xolo recently announced its first Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone Win Q900s, and now it looks like the company is working on a new smartphone that will have Hive UI.

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Microsoft partners with 9 more manufacturers for more Windows Phones

One of the main reasons that Windows Phones haven’t sold as much as Android smartphones is because of the lack of manufacturers. At launch, Microsoft had only a handful of manufacturers and as Windows Phone grew, the number of manufacturers shrunk and at one point, Microsoft bought out Nokia, which was probably the only company making Windows Phones.

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Xolo Play Tegra Note Review

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Seven inch tablets are a dime and a dozen however finding one that delivers compelling performance at a competitive price point is still rather elusive. Enter the Tegra Note 7. Powered by a blazing fast Tegra 4 chip and boasting of strong gaming credentials, the Tegra Note 7 promises the sky. But can it deliver? We find out in our review. Continue reading “Xolo Play Tegra Note Review”

Xolo Q3000 Photo Gallery

Xolo Q3000 is the latest flagship from the company. It comes with a huge 5.7inch Full HD display and is powered by the infamous MediaTek MT6589T quad-core processor. One of its huge selling points is its big display and its huge 4000mAh battery. We recently unboxed the device and brought you the camera samples. Today we will be bringing you the photo gallery of this huge device.

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Xolo Q3000 Unboxing and First Impressions

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The Xolo Q3000 is the first device from the company to incorporate a full HD 1080p screen. Yes, it took a while for Xolo to do that, as we saw the 5.5 inch Q2000 sporting a 720p screen even when it had the MT6589 Turbo inside. But with the Q3000, Xolo has its first 5.7″ device as well as its first 1080p phone, so we felt it would be pretty interesting to check this phone out. So, here you go, the unboxing video of the Q3000 where we will show you the box contents and a quick overview of the phone itself –

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Xolo Win 10.1inch Windows 8 Tablet Hands on

Xolo was the first company to bring Intel powered smartphones to the market and now, they are the first company to bring AMD processor powered tablets in India. Xolo unveiled their first Windows tablet – Xolo Win at the CES 2014. Xolo Win is a 10.1inch display tablet with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels and it runs on Windows 8.1 OS. We went hands on with the device and you can check out the video right below.

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Xolo partners with AMD for its first 10.1″ Windows 8 tablet – Xolo Win

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Xolo, the Indian company known for its range of low cost smartphones, has just unveiled its first Windows 8 tablet at CES 2014 – the Xolo Win, powered by the AMD A4 Elite mobility processor. This is a first for XOLO as well as AMD, as this is the first Windows tablet for the former while it is the first APU-powered tablet for the latter. Sporting a 10.1″ inch screen with a 1366×768 resolution, the mid range tablet will take on the likes of the first generation Surface with similar specifications, but with full Windows 8 functionality. It will have 2 GB of RAM, rear and front facing cameras and a battery that supposedly lasts up to 7 hours. The Xolo Win is slated to be released in the Indian market by the end of January 2014.

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