The Xolo Q700 packs a fully loaded 2400 mAH battery, in contrast to most phones that range between 1800 and 2000 mAH, and this is a highlight of the Xolo Q700.. in the past 6 weeks I have seen that the phone very easily handles a whole day of smartphone use for news, emails, wifi network, 3G network and everything that a person buys a smartphone.

I observed that the phone drains really fast between 25% and 13% - some bad sectors in the battery? This could be one defect..

Overall as the table below showcases I am getting ~27 hours of use time with the phone with the screen, google play and voice calls being the big drains. But at 18 hours of voice calls no body is complaining.

Beasically recorded the overall drainage of the battery 4 times over the past 2 weeks recording diligently the amount of time used by each of the dominant app, as shown below

Used the above raw data to pivot out the statistics..

Hope the average reader finds this useful..

In june after I returned from my Australia trip quite happy with the experience with my first desi phone the Karbonn Titanium S5 in that trip, I decided that dad needed an upgrade on his 3 year old HTC wildfire, which with a 3” low res screen  and very little storage was giving a lot of pain..

After some quick research and help from TV ads, I saw and zeroed in on the Xolo Q700 as a good bet, buying it at  www.mirchimart.com a good site {I would also suggest smartprix.com a meta search engine and then there is always google!} for buying smart phones.  At a price of INR 939.00 the xolo Q 700 is a great phone.. Once I received the phone and opened the package, I decided to give the tried and tested KTS5 to dad and play around with the Xolo Q700 and this blog is a review of my experience for the past 6 weeks with the phone.

Xolo was Lava’s brand for intel chips and then got forked as a separatebrand. Currently the Q series are non intel chips with this phone having a mediatek quadcore chip.. interestingly the packaging showed that this was an imported unit manufactured in china and white-labeled into Xolo for india.. wonder what other brands have got plastered on this specific device. It is overall a great business model. China makes white labeled phone , load OS to specifications and ship it directly to warehouses and customers.

The xolo logo is visible only in the back panel and in a handful Xolo apps that come preloaded.

Now to the structure Review..

Another itchy pain-point is that a partition of the internal storage gets reflected as External SDCard on the OS which means that SDCard does not reflect in most defalt menus, one has to opt manually for storing app content in the SD card outside settings! Therefore Move to SD card does not work.

I found the GPS to be of poor quality. Apps like mytracks that need continuous tracking apps do not work smoothly. The GPS also takes time to get activated.

Finally accessory list for the phone is limited

The camera in the phone is decent nothing to brag about, 5Mega pixel is good for normal pics take on the fly, and its ability to take low light pictures is better than most phones.. couple of pictures showcased below.

This has been my experience, will post a battery review of the phone separately.