Intel Xolo Q800 Features

 

The Xolo Q800 was launched by Lava mobiles as its flagship quad core mobile. There were great expectations from the Xolo Q800, and it has performed up to its expectations. Micromax Canvas HD still remains unavailable and out of stock, and Xolo Q800 is its competitor and will take advantage of no stock of the Micromax Canvas HD. During our testing we found that the Xolo Q800 performs well and is at par with the Micromax Canvas HD. Our Xolo Q800 review covers up everything that is there in the mobile.

 The Xolo comes with normal accessories including 2100 mAh battery, handset, earphones, manual, user guide, micro USB and adapter. Other than these accessories the Xolo Q800 box also includes screen protector that fits perfectly on the screen.

Design

The design of the Xolo Q800 is very good, and in look and feel its truly great. The Xolo Q800 feels like a very expensive mobile. The Xolo Q800 has 3 soft buttons on the front side. It also has volume buttons on the sides, as well as a sleep button.On the rear side of the Xolo Q800 there is the logo and 8 Mega pixels camera. The front side also includes a small 1 Mega pixels front camera.

Memory and Storage

The Xolo Q800 has 1GB RAM, in which we found around 700MB free for user. Other than the RAM, it also has 4GB internal storage in which 1.7GB is user accessible. Micro SD card was also supported in the mobile.

 

Processor and performance

The Xolo Q800 is powered by Quad Core MT6589 Processor along with PowerVR SGX 544 GPU. The performance of the Xolo Q800 was very good and there were no lags whats so ever. The Xolo Q800 was capable of playing Modern Combat 4. As it can play Modern Combat 4, we also expect that it will also play other high end games.

Benchmarking

    AnTuTu - 12560
    Quadrant - 4051
    Nenamark2 - 58fps
    Multi touch - 5 point


Cameras

The Xolo Q800 has 8MP back camera along with 1MP front camera. We found that the back camera was capable of capturing videos in 1080p too. The front camera also performs well. The Xolo Q800 also was able to capture images in low light.

Entertainment

The Xolo Q800 easily played 1080p videos, so in movie watching it performs well. We tried YouTube streaming and found that it performed well, and was capable of streaming 720p videos too. In gaming the Xolo Q800 is capable of playing high end games like the Modern Combat 4 and Need For Speed Most Wanted smoothly.

Sound Quality

The sound quality of the Xolo Q800 was at par with other handsets similar to it. The headphones provided with it are also very good, and you can hear the sounds very clearly. The speakers of the Xolo Q800 are also loud enough for normal usage.

Battery Life

The Xolo Q800 has 2100 mAh battery, which lasts easily for 1 and half days. The battery lasts easily for 1 and half day in normal usage. But heavy gaming consumes too much battery and during heavy gaming we found that the battery lasted for just about 4 hours.