Broadcom-powered quad-core Xolo Opus Q1000 up for pre-order for Rs 9,999

Last month, Xolo had announced that Broadcom will be powering its next smartphone called Q1000 Opus. And now the very same Broadcom-powered smartphone has gone up for pre-order for Rs 9,999. It is listed on popular e-commerce sites Flipkart and Infibeam. Both sites reveal that the device will be shipped in the third week of December.

The Xolo Opus Q1000 is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM, so performance should be on par with most other Indian quad-core handsets. The dual-SIM (GSM + GSM) smartphone runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Sporting a large 5-inch display, it features a 5-megapixel rear camera and a front-facing VGA camera. On the connectivity front, it comes with support for Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS, EDGE along with Bluetooth and GPS with A-GPS support. So this is about the usual set of features we expect in a sub-Rs 10,000 smartphone.

Up for pre-order

Here’s a quick look at its specifications:

• 5-inch FWVGA IPS display with 480 x 854 pixels resolution
• 3G, Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth
• GPS with A-GPS, GLONAAS
• 4GB onboard storage, expandable up to 32GB via microSD card slot

The device packs in 2000mAh battery that Xolo says delivers up to 18 hours of talk time and up to 700 hours standby time.

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After adopting Nvidia’s Tegra 3 for the Play T1000, Xolo’s new smartphone leverages Broadcom’s BCM23550 quad core HSPA+ processor, BCM4334 connectivity combo chip and BCM4752 multi-constellation GNSS location chip to deliver a high performance, feature-rich experience at an affordable price. The company says that it allow users to easily stream content over Wi-Fi and simultaneously share HD video, photos and gaming applications to a larger screen via Miracast.