Lava’s sub-brand Xolo has launched its third Intel powered smartphone in India – the Xolo X1000 for Rs 19,999. It is based on the first generation Intel Atom Z2480 processor codenamed Medfield that Intel released last year. Unlike the Xolo X900, this chipset is clocked at 2GHz with hyper-threading and was previously seen in the UK bound Motorola Razr i. This also fits perfectly with what we reported a few hours back.
To supplement its processing prowess there is PowerVR SGX540 GPU, and 1GB of RAM. Intel claims that this is its fastest phone ever and we believe them however in light of newer Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU based devices we would say this phone is not the fastest one can buy in the Android landscape. Nonetheless, this chipset is quite nimble and overall performance should be quite swift.
It has a 2.5D 4.7-inch edge-to-edge curved glass screen that has a 720p resolution and delivers 314 pixels per inch. It’s also remarkably thin at 9.1mm and weighs in at just 140 grams. It flaunts an uni-body design and there is 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front facing camera. The rear camera can shoot pictures at 15 frames per second and can shoot full HD 1080p video.
There is also 8GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot and a 1,900 mAh battery. Unfortunately as Intel’s chipsets are not yet optimized for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Xolo X1000 is stuck on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
This becomes even more telling when one realises Lava itself does make smartphones that run on ARM chipsets with the latest version of Android.
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