Expert Adviser- Akash Ghosh
XOLO has been making Quality Smartphones since it has stepped in the Smartphone Industry and had made the first Smartphone which was powered by Intel processors. But it was just a few days ago when XOLO announced to list another unique Smartphone, Yea and I am sure that you are talking about that only but first I will like to inform you that this Smartphone is the first ever Smartphone in the world that has been powered by NVIDIA Tegra3 processor , So..... You can imagine of the Graphics that You will get So why wait let's see " What is Xolo Play T1000 ? "....
Design-
The Xolo Play T1000 inherits the simple design of the other common Smartphones found in the market. Though the Smartphone doesn't feature any hardware buttons but there are 3 backlit captive buttons namely Settings, Home and Back at the Front panel. The whole front panel is covered with a glass sheet below which the backlit captive buttons are present.
The Back Panel has been a good choice as it provides a better grip than many other Smartphones.
The Back Panel covers the Battery Compartment where a battery of 2000mAh and SIM card slots with micro-SD card slots placed below the Batter. On the Right side the Volume Rocker and the Screen Lock/Power button is placed whereas the Micro-USB port and the headphone jack is placed right at the top.
At the Front panel, speaker grills are present right above the Display Screen with the Front Cmaera and at the back a Rear camera with a LED flash is placed with the XOLO brand name.
Overall the design of Xolo Play T1000 is not that much catchy though we cannot " Predict a book by it's Cover " .
Display-
The Xolo Play T1000 features a 4.7-inch HD display screen with a 720x1280 pixels resolution and a pixel density of 312pixels per inch. It feature the One Glass Solution Technology. This may sound a bit low in front of some of the existing Android Smartphones but as I told you we cannot " Predict a book by it's Cover " and that's the truth because the real life experience was not that much low as it was expected.
The Viewing angles and the sun visibility of the phone was decent though the screen was reflective. The Screen was a fingerprint magnet and it would be hard time keeping the screen clean.
The graphic display was not that much sharp compared to other Smartphones.
Overall the Display was decent and I believe there maybe some changes needed with the Display.
Software-
The Xolo Play T1000 runs on Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean out of the Box which is not the latest version and on the other hand Xolo Q700 was given a Android 4.2 Jelly Bean out of the box so Xolo Play T1000 gets a disadvantage of this.
It has got the Basic Android Features and Interface without any " Engineering " modifications.
Like HTC Desire 600 the Xolo Play also offers the double tap app switcher option i.e. when you double tap on the backlit home button you get directed towards the app switcher with which you can manage open apps.
The lock screen and the settings menu look simmilar to the other Android Smartphone in the Market.
The Xolo Play T100 comes with some useful apps( That can be found in many other Android Smartphones ) like Gmail, Google Maps, Google Talk with the usual Android file manager, video player etc. With this you obviously get to run high quality games and apps as the biggest advantage of a NVIDIA Tegra processor. With another obviousness...., you can always download loads of apps from the play store for free.....
The Xolo Play T1000 has 5 customizable home screens on which you can create app shortcuts and widgets like other Android Smartphones in the market.
The Notification tray provides you with timely notifications, with that you get a toggle feature for settings like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth etc. with shortcuts to settings and an option to clear all notifications. The Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Provides Xolo Play T100 with Google Now which is a virtual assistant.
The Company provides Xolo Play T1000 with some of it's special features like Xolo Care, Xolo Power and Xolo Secure which were previously found in the older Xolo Smartphones. The Xolo Power helps you to manage the battery settings and gives you the average battery life left. With this you can take measures to extend the battery life in emergencies by many ways provided to you by it. Xolo Secure as the name suggest it provides security measures to protect your Xolo Device from theft, it gives options to track and lock your Xolo Device.
Overall the software Specifications were not very unique or special but it can make a good deal.
Hardware-
The Xolo Play T100 is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core NvidiaTegra3 processor with a 5th low-power core accompanied by a 12 Core Nvidia ULP GeForce.
The Xolo Play comes with a 1GB RAM and a 4GB of internal storage, out of which only 2.3GB is user accessible however one can expand the storage up to 32GB using a microSD card.
While launching apps you may experience bit of lag which is disheartening after all it being packed with a NVIDIA Tegra3 Processor.
As I told you before about the gaming experience that you can imagine, the Xolo Play T1000 stands on your expectations.... Yea the gaming experience was fantastic , you can run the normal Android games with the special high quality games especially made for the NVIDIA Tegra Devices without any disturbance.
The call quality is also good and you can run full HD quality videos of all formats including MOV and AVI .
Overall the Hardware specifications were quite good and were as expected by me.
Camera-
The Xolo Play T100 Features a 8 megapixels camera Back Side Illumination Sensor accompanied by a LED Flash. The Camera app doesn't feature any special functionality. The Pictures take by the camera were not that much sharp and the colors sometimes seemed washed, though in proper ( or rather high ) light conditions this was a bit reduced and the pictures taken were more detailed.
The camera can also capture videos at 720q HD resolution and even Full HD resolution though the videos when seen were of average quality.
The Phone also features a 2 megapixels camera which can be used for video chats and to click self-pics.
Overall I can say that this phone is not for photography though but can take decent images.
Battery-
The Xolo Play T1000 Packs a 2000mAh Battery. It can last for 12-13 hours with heavy and moderate usage including long hours of gaming,Voice calling, playing music , videos , facebook, twitter , messaging with WiFi, Bluetooth, Auto Brightness and 3G networking on.
- The Battery can run for about a Day if Wi-Fi and gaming hours are reduced.
Overall the Battery life was also good but Very Long Hours of Gaming can effect the Battery Life.
Price-
Now is the time to announce the price of this Gaming Smartphone so why wait lets announce it ,....... The Xolo Play T1000 has been marked for a price of Rs. 15,999 only. Yea that's the price but don't go right now please wait and see my advice at least.
Advice-
After This whole review I would like to say that this phone is a good deal for game lovers but for those who would love to have a stylish phone .... This is not for them and We cannot blame the Company as they had already declared it as a gaming Phone by Giving it the Name Xolo Play T1000. The price is satisfactory but like always we would obviously like to get this Smartphone at a lower budget for sure.
Thanks For reading and leave a comment if you have any queries.
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Posted at 18:01 | by
Akash Ghosh
