The account to mid-range articulation is absolutely bedeviled by up and comers like Micromax, Karbonn, iBall and now XOLO. The A800 is XOLO’s latest accession to its artefact band and is a backup to the A700. The new handset boasts of an absorbing account of appearance because its amount point and will attempt anon with the iBall Andi 4.5h. It looked actual able in our blueprint analysis and now it’s time to see if it absolutely delivers in our absolute apple tests.
Design and body XOLO has nailed the architecture and aesthetics of the A800 actual well. The handset looks and feels counterbalanced and we adulation the best of plastics used. The bright foreground tends to allure fingerprints and reflections can be an issue. It doesn’t book actual able-bodied if it comes to sunlight accuracy too. We accept three capacitive buttons at the basal forth with the foreground adverse camera and sensors on the top. It’s a adequately abbreviate handset with the aggregate rocker placed neatly on the larboard and the microUSB anchorage beneath that. The power/sleep button and 3.5 mm headphone jack yield their abode on the top, abrogation the appropriate ancillary bare.
This is a bifold SIM handset, but alone one SIM supports 3G. Appropriate beside it is the hot-swap microSD agenda slot; the A800 comes arranged with an 8GB microSD card. The A800 does not attending like your archetypal account Android handset. In fact, it has a exceptional feel to it and that’s not simple to acquisition in phones in this amount range.
Features Interface XOLO delivers banal Android Ice Cream Sandwich with the A800 with some tweaks to the settings and the notification bar. Just like a lot of account droids, there are scrollable toggle switches in the notifications area; about they aren’t customisable. The settings agenda is aswell absolutely altered with new icons and added sub-menus for bifold SIM management, complete profiles and an advantage to automate tasks like abeyance and restart the phone. The UI is larboard appealing abundant admirable and the activity is bland and fluid. This is accessible acknowledgment to the abrupt dual-core MediaTek MT6577 SoC and 512MB of RAM. There is a minute lag and dribble that all-overs in if annexation beyond homescreens, but that could just be ICS.
The 4.5-inch IPS affectation manages to aftermath aciculate argument and active colours. The examination angles are aswell actual good. The qHD resolution (540 x 960) helps in befitting a abundantly top pixel count, so icons and argument don’t arise pixelated. There’s aswell no arresting amalgamation apparent in wallpapers and in video. The A800 aswell appearance an ambient ablaze sensor for automated accuracy adjustment, a affection abounding accept to omit in the account section.
Media For media playback, we accept the banal audio and video player. Audio superior is appropriate as continued as you use a acceptable brace of IEMs. The aggregate of the apostle is not actual loud. It’s just abundant for alerts, but dialogues in movies are not actual clear. File architecture abutment is the aforementioned as you would get with banal ICS, so for added abutment for MKV, AVI etc., you’ll accept to about-face to third affair players. There’s aswell FM radio.
Video playback is not the best on the banal amateur as even SD videos tend to stutter. This is anchored by installing MX Amateur and switching the decoder from accouterments to software. The handset has 4GB of centralized memory, but this can be calmly broadcast via a microSD card. MX Amateur aswell managed to calmly play aback our 720p MKV, AVI and MOV files with accouterments acceleration. Full HD 1080p videos are a extraordinary on the A800.
Connectivity The XOLO A800 is not a quad-band Android phone, unfortunately. You alone get two bands for GSM and one bandage for 3G. This is not a botheration as continued as you plan on application it in India, but if you biking away a lot, again it ability not consistently plan with added carriers. You can use two SIMs in A800, but bethink that alone one of them supports 3G. Added connectivity options cover Wi-Fi 802.11 вЂn’, Bluetooth v3.0 and microUSB for charging and abstracts transfer. There’s no video-out advantage or NFC here. For navigation, we accept GPS with A-GPS and Google Maps.
Misc. apps Besides the accepted array of Google apps, we aswell accept a advancement and restore app for abetment up your contacts, messages, pictures, agenda etc. to the SD card. There’s aswell a book administrator to advice you dig abysmal into the belly of your handset. NoteBook helps you yield quick addendum while XOLO Affliction helps you affix to a hotline for chump affliction and even includes an amend area to install updates via the SD agenda or anon from XOLO.
Camera The A800 packs in an 8MP BSI sensor that manages to abduction acceptable pictures, both central and outdoors. For stills, you get a accomplished agglomeration of options appropriate from HDR, white balance, arena modes and colour effect. The settings agenda has an advantage alleged ZSD, which is a blazon of angel stabilisation feature, and it in fact manages to plan absolutely well. If angry on, slight movements are actual able-bodied compensated by the software. You aswell accept the advantage to acclimatize the sharpness, hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, ISO and flicker. While still shots do arise ablaze even in low light, the detail akin is still appealing average. We aswell noticed that the buzz had slight issues with the ablaze metering, but we anticipate a software amend should fix this.
Video recording approach aswell seems to accept some array of angel stabilisation alleged EIF and you accept the aforementioned angel and colour corrections even in this mode. What’s absolutely hasty is the panorama mode. Not alone does it abduction a added attempt compared to the banal mode, but you aswell get guidelines to advice you while panning. The best part, however, is the acceleration at which it stiches the angel together; there’s aught processing time. The superior of the recorded video is aswell decidedly good, even indoors.
Battery activity The 1600mAh array managed to bear almost 7-hours of array life, which is appropriate because the admeasurement and resolution of the screen. For accustomed use, you should be able to get a day’s account of usage.
Verdict and amount in India At an MRP of Rs. 11,999, the XOLO A800 is calmly the best Android handset we’ve appear beyond at this amount point. Some of the able credibility of the handset cover the accomplished display, abrupt dual-core CPU, bifold SIM, actual acceptable body and aesthetics, arranged anamnesis card, 8MP BSI sensor camera and the advantage for approaching updates. It’s not after its faults though. The loud apostle is absolutely anemic and is not actual audible, even if it’s not noisy. Added than this, we don’t accept any added above complaint with the A800 and would awful acclaim it to anyone searching for a smartphone in this budget.
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