THE First Intel Inside Phone Launched In India
Lava will bring an entry level Androidphone with the Intel processor for around Rs 10,000 and a mid-range smartphone for Rs15,000.
India based handset manufacture, Lava International will bring two more handsets with Intel Atom processor by this year end. A senior executive of the company told this to The Mobile Indian after launching Lava's first Intel Atom processor based Xolo 900 which also happens to be thefirst smartphone with the said processor to be launched in India.
"Lava will be launching two more handset based on Intel chipset under Xolo series bythe end of this year," said Vishal Sehgal, co-founder anddirector of Lava International to The Mobile Indian.
Sunil Raina, business head -Xolo, Lava International said,"Our first offing in the Xolo series is Xolo 900 and in the coming months we will adding one entry level Android phonethat will be around Rs 10,000 and a mid-range smartphone that will be in price range of Rs 15,000."
Lava International on Thursday launched the Xolo 900 smartphone with Android2.3 operating system, running on Intel's 1.6 Ghz Atom processor.
Xolo 900, which will be available in the market from April 23, is priced at Rs 22,000 at Chroma which is a multiband outlet and it will beavailable in all the other retails stores by second weekof May.
Lava's Xolo 900 comes with a 4.03 inch LCD touchscreen display. Notably, the Intel processor was hailed by manyanalysts who even rated it onpar with quad coreprocessors found in Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S.
Currently, the phone has Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system but it soonwill get the latest Android 4.0which is also called as Ice Cream Sandwich. Besides, there is a 400 Mhz graphics core, will aid smooth play of graphic intensive heavy gamefound in the Android app store.
For shutter bugs also there isgood news. Lava has fittedan 8 megapixel camera in theXolo which it says can even record full HD (1080p) videos.
The smartphone, according to Lava, will give five hours of talk time when used on 3Gwhile if you use the phone on 2G network, the phone will offer 8 hours of talktime.
Besides, the Xolo 900 has allother usual features like WiFi , Bluetooth , and HDMI port which allows users to connect it to a TV and enjoy videos and games |
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