Xolo Era with its double RAM beats Intex Aqua Y4

By: Techno Mentor on 00:05

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The Indian Smartphone market’s growth is explosive and competition among vendors is gaining steam. The desire to produce ‘the best’ leading these vendors to try something new improved and better. Xolo an Intex are one among these vendors out with their new gadgets. Subsequently, for this review we are putting Xolo Era and Intex Aqua Y4 face to face as they run on almost same price tag.

Look & Feel

Intex Aqua measures 136 x 67.5 x 8.7 mm whereas Xolo Era measure 143 x 73.2x 9.4 mm demonstrating that Intex is slightly thinner than Xolo. Besides, Era is available in black colour which promises to never get out of fashion. Aqua Y4 comes with stylish black including other trendy colours such as White, Silver and Champagne.

Display

Era has a screen size of 5” whereas; Aqua has a screen size of 4.5” with capacitive touch screen. Therefore, Era with bigger screen and sharper pixels acquires a leg up over Aqua Y4. However, both the devices have 480x 854 pixels.

Performance

Considering the processor, Y4 is powered with 1.2 GHz Quad- core that is marginally more reliable than Era which is powered by 1 Ghz Dual-core. On processor make criteria again Intex Y4 is power-driven by MTK6572X whereas Xolo Era is driven by SPREADTRUM SC7731. Both the devices run on Android 4.4.2 OS.

Intex come up with 512 MB which is half of Xolo which come up with 1GB. Era provides 8GB of internal storage which is double of Intex that provides 4GB internal storage. However, both the devices offer expansion of storage up to 32 GB with a microSD card. In spite of the fact that both the contraptions keep running on the same OS and the storage can be expanded up to the same limit however and still, after all that Xolo Era gives a relentless rivalry to Intex Aqua with its RAM and internal storage.

Additional Features

Indeed, when it is about camera Xolo Era ends up having high ground with 8 megapixels (back) and 2 megapixel (front). While, Intex Aqua come up with 5 megapixel (back) and 2 megapixel (front) camera. Xolo includes scene detection& tuning, Panaroma, geo tagging, HDR slow motion, Freeze Frame display and burst mode as additional camera features whereas Intex apart from flash has nothing to offer.

Battery wise XoloEra with 2100 mAh battery defeats Y4 with 1700 mAh battery. Not only in power but also Xolo era with 511 hrs 04 mins stand by time and 24 hours 50 mins talk time have a definite leg up over intex aqua with 298 hrs stand by time and 7 hrs of talk time.

In terms of connectivity, both the gadget bolsters 802.11 a/b/g/n/air conditioning Wi-Fi guidelines. They also support 3G/ 4G, NFC and GPS. Considering the Bluetooth facility Intex come up with v4.0 which is a slightly advanced version than Era BT 2.1.

Conclusion

Going by specifications, we note that Xolo Era clearly steals the show from Intex Aqua Y4 with its larger display screen-size, bigger RAM, larger internal as well as external storage and slightly higher battery capacity. There are distinctive design elements too, which include overall size, shape and colour variants that are a matter of individual preference.

Last but not the least, we looked at the price tag on leading shopping portals with India in mind, where both the devices are priced at around INR4,000. Therefore, Xolo Era stands out as a more sensible choice over Intex Aqua Y4, unless one has specific preference of design and colours.