Xolo has announced that it will be unveiling the second smartphone under its premium
'Black' brand called the Black 1X. The
domestic handset manufacturer has
confirmed an exclusive Twitter launch of the
Xolo Black 1X on Wednesday.
To recall, Xolo back in July had launched its first smartphone under the Black brand, dubbed Xolo Black. It was priced at Rs. 12,999 and went on sale exclusively via an
e-commerce website. The upcoming Xolo
Black 1X is also likely to be available via
online channels only.
Ahead of the company's Wednesday launch,
the Xolo Black 1X has reportedly also been spotted on Geekbench and GFXBench
benchmark listings. According to the leaked
benchmark listings, the handset is likely to
run Android 5.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box. It
will feature a 4.6-inch full-HD (1080x1920
pixels) display and will be powered by an octa-core MediaTek MT6753 processor
clocked at 1.3GHz coupled with 3GB of RAM.
The Xolo Black, in contrast, was powered by
a second-generation 64-bit Snapdragon 615
(MSM8939) SoC. The handset is said to sport
a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 5- megapixel front camera. The Xolo Black 1X is
likely to come with 32GB inbuilt storage with
no word on expandable storage support, as
of now.
Notably, the Xolo Black featured a hybrid
dual-SIM slot, where the second SIM card
slot also doubled up as the microSD card
slot. We can expect the same feature to be
present in the Black 1X. Much like the Xolo
Black (Review | Pictures) smartphone, the Black 1X is expected to support 4G
connectivity and come with dual-SIM
support.
The Geekbench listing showed that the handset scored 617 in the single-core test
and 2697 in the multi-core test. The GFXBench, on the other hand, indicates some additional details about the handset
such as presence of accelerometer, GPS,
gyroscope, proximity sensor, and also an LED
flash module. The benchmark listings were
first reported by FoneArena .
We can expect Xolo to announce some
bundled offers with its new Black 1X
smartphone as the company had in July tied
up with Vodafone to provide a bundled SIM
offer with 1GB of free data a month for two
months, and unlimited Vodafone music for two months.
