Xolo, the brand got some quick popularity by launching the first Intel based smartphone a couple of years ago. This Indian company is popular for making premium budget smartphones; the company does offer some great value to money with its series of smartphones. Today we are going to review the Xolo A500S IPS smartphone, it is the successor model of the Xolo A500S launched last year. Both the devices fall in the same budget category and have no major difference in terms of design and hardware. The only thing that differentiates these 2 smartphones is the display.
Xolo A500S IPS comes with IPS display which is better than the regular display on the older A500S smartphone. It offers good viewing angles and better brightness. Let take a peep into the device and see how it works.
Design
The Xolo A500S IPS has the same design as the older A500S, the device looks very beautiful and is very slim. The one thing that we appreciate about this smartphone too much is that single hand operation is very easy on this smartphone. These days’ people prefer bigger smartphones, and we find quite a few compact and powerful smartphones in the market. The Xolo A500S IPS is not a very powerful smartphone, but its certainly a decent smartphone with compact size.
The physical layout of the phone is designed for comfort; the right side of the panel hosts the power and lock key while the volume keys are placed on the left hand side of the panel. The front side is dominated by the 4-inch IPS display with three capacitive touch buttons at the bottom. The back panel of the smartphone comes in multiple colors and has a rubberized matt finish on it. There is a 5MP camera on the rear side accompanied with an LED flash, there is also a front-facing VGA resolution camera for video calling.
The Overall design of the phone is attractive and delivers very good one hand navigation, one need not stretch out his fingers or wrist to reach out to farther side of the display.
Software and User Interface
The Xolo A500S IPS smartphone comes with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Operating System, the user gets Google’s Play Store on board which has millions of apps and games to download from. One can improve the productivity and entertainment features of the phone by downloading various applications. The Jelly Bean OS brings the latest Android features on board along with security updates. The OS on this device is not tweaked much and offer stock Android experience. The User Interface is not changed and is standard when compared to other stock Android phones.
Hardware
This smartphone has mid-range specs on board, it comes with a Dual-Core MediaTek processor clocked at a speed of 1.3GHz per core, and the device also hosts a Mali-400MP GPU for better graphics on board. The device measures 125 x 63.2 x 8.98mm and is amazingly light, it has a 4-inch touch display and is equipped with Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor and Proximity sensor. It uses a 1,400mAH battery as its power source which lasts fairly for one full day. This smartphone has a 512MB of RAM and 4GB ROM, there is also a micro SD slot on this phone to help user expand memory up to 32GB.
Display
Display is the only component on this device that has got on upgrade, the older device (Xolo A500S) did not have IPS display, and this one has. The display on this device offer bright visuals and the color reproduction is very natural. The display has wide viewing angles and the touch response is excellent. The phone’s hardware allows playback of 1080p videos while it supports 720p recording on board. This is one of the best smartphones in the budget category, for Rs 6,500 it a great choice.
Camera & Performance
Like we said earlier it’s a mid-range smartphone, so don’t expect higher resolution cameras on board. It comes with mid-range camera on the both the sides of the phone. The rear side of the phone holds a 5MP camera with LED flash and autofocus feature. The camera UI on the phone is standard and the company has not gone crazy tweaking it too much. It offers standard Android camera interface with the similar set of features like touch focus, Geo-tagging and panorama.
The camera UI on the top holds the twitch camera button, there is also the shutter button and the video recording toggle button. This smartphone captures good day light images, the low light images on this phone is poor. Considering a low budget offering one would not get disappointed with poor low light images. The rear camera on this device is also capable of shooting 720p videos while the front facing VGA resolution camera helps in video calling.
The performance of the phone is average, in fact better than other Android smartphones in the same price range. During our encounter with this compact budget offering we did not see any lags or issues with the phone. The Camera worked perfect, we were able to record HD videos and there were no issues with the software too. Everything on this smartphone is well optimized to offer good user experience.
My Verdict: Deal or No deal?
A lot of people get confused between Xolo A500S and Xolo A500S IPS as to which is better? And when people ask which is better, they mean which one performs better. Both the phones have same performance, there is not going to be any difference at all. Both these smartphones have same hardware, so if you are in a myth that the Latest A500S IPS is better and faster than the Xolo A500S, then please come out of it. Latest does not always mean faster than older, in this case the A500S IPS comes with a better display.So it’s a great deal to buy either Xolo A500S or A500S IPS, I would recommend my readers to go for Xolo A500S IPS because for a few extra bucks you get a real good display. For six thousand and odd rupees this is the best you can get in the market. Go for it.
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