Lava to launch Xolo smartphone with Intel processor on 14 March

Lava is launching a new Xolo smartphone, that it claims will be the world’s fastest, on the same day that Samsung is launching the Galaxy S IV. Lava is launching the smartphone on 14 March in Goa. The company has begun teasing the event for its smartphone on as “Mission X” on its website and Facebook page along with a countdown, and claims that this is the fastest smartphone ever. While rumours indicate that the smartphone will have the latest Intel Clover Trail+ processor which was showcased at the recent Mobile World Congress (2013), a Times of India report states it will have a different Intel chip clocked at 2Ghz. For more details you can read the TOI report here. [caption id=“attachment_655594” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Screengrab of Lava website.[/caption] The Clover Trail+ processors include the Z2520, Z2560 and Z2580 which are clocked at  1.2GHz, 1.6GHz and 2GHz respectively. Other details about Lava’s ‘super fast’ smartphone remain sketchy for now. Lava recently released the Xolo Q 800, a quad-core device for Rs 12,499. It runs of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and has a 4.5 inch IPS panel display with 540 x 960 pixel screen resolution, an eight megapixel rear camera, 1.2-megapixel front camera, with 4GB internal memory, expandable up to 32GB via microSD card.