Xolo (company)

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Xolo
Company type Subsidiary
Founded2012
HeadquartersSector 64, Noida,
Uttar Pradesh, India
Area served
India, UAE
Key people
  • Vishal Sehgal
    (Co-Founder & Director – Lava International Ltd.)
  • Sunil Raina
    (Business Head)
Products
Parent Lava International
Website www.xolo.in

Xolo, stylised as XOLO, is an Indian mobile handset brand by Lava International. [1] It manufactures personal electronics devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, and accessories such as powerbanks.

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In April 2012, Xolo launched India's first smartphone with an Intel processor, the Xolo X900. [2] [3] Xolo was the first Indian manufacturer to partner with AMD to launch a tablet, the Xolo Win tablet. [4] This was followed by the first 4G-enabled smartphone in India, the LT900, in December 2013. [5] On 6 January 2014, Liverpool FC announced Xolo as its first regional partner in India. [6] Xolo launched one of the first dual camera phones in India, Xolo Black, in July 2015 in an exclusive partnership with India's largest online marketplace, Flipkart [ citation needed ]. Xolo Era series was launched in July 2015 in an exclusive partnership with Snapdeal [ citation needed ].

Xolo uses various series of MediaTek processors in its smartphones. Xolo focuses on online retail through Amazon and Flipkart.

Smartphones

Android phones

Xolo offers Android smartphones in the series: Era, Black, Q, Omega and Play. The company sells its devices only via online marketplaces/ e-commerce websites such as Snapdeal, Flipkart and Amazon [ citation needed ].

Era series handsets are priced from INR 5,000 to 10,000, whereas Black series ones are priced above Rs. 10,000.[ citation needed ]

Different models introduced in the Xolo Era series: Era (launched in July 2015), Era HD (October 2015), Era 4G (February 2016), Era 4K (February 2016), Era X (February 2016), Era 2 (October 2016), Era 1X (September 2016), Era 2X (January 2017), Era 2V (October 2017), Era 3 (October 2017), Era 3X (October 2017), and Era 4X (January 2019).

Xolo Black series: Black (launched in July 2015), Black 1X (October 2015).

Xolo Q series: Q700 (2014), [7] Q1000 Opus (2013), [8] Q2000 (2013), [9] Q3000 (2013), [10] Q1010i (2014). [11]
Other notable smartphones:
Xolo Omega 5.0 and Omega 5.5. [12] [13]
Xolo One Liverpool FC limited-edition smartphone, launched on 14 May 2015. [14]
Xolo Cube 5.0 (2015) [15]
Xolo One HD (2015) [16] [17]

Windows Phone devices

Xolo Win series: Win Q900s (launched in 2014), [18] Win Q1000 (2015), [19] Win (2015) [20]

Tablets

Xolo launched an Android tablet in 2021 called Xolo Play Tegra which ran MediaTek Helio 66. [21] [22]

Laptop

Marketing

In 2013, Xolo signed Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana to endorse its products. [23]

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