Uh oh! Lava XOLO X900 has Intel inside but no battery connectors!
What do we have here? Had we not known any better, we would have called it the weirdest contraption we have ever seen in our lives on a cellphone, leave alone a smartphone on which rests Intel’s mobile aspirations. This is the battery compartment of the Lava XOLO X900, which according to the product box is manufactured by Intel Semicon. However, if you ask us, this would be the crappiest thing we have ever seen. It even beats the cheap Shanzai phones we get in grey markets.
If you notice closely, the battery does not have any connectors! Instead, there are some wires sneaking out from the phone to which the battery has been, wait for it, taped! In essence, users cannot just pick up a spare battery and change it if one runs out of juice. Worse still, what if the connecting wires snap? No sir, nothing doing. You would have to go to a service centre and get it repaired!
We still cannot understand why Intel would let anything like this go into the hands of a consumer? Why?
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Ohhhh wow!!! was Intel is such a big rush that they had to take a steep cheap turn?? can’t wait for them to respond to this!!
I think Intel just made someone really fat sit on a PC cabinet and compacted it to this phone. Only possible explanation for the cables.
Like other leading smartphones today, the XOLO X900 features a non-replaceable battery design. Because of this, there are no connectors and the battery is wired in.
Rajat,
There is a connector under the big plastic part you see there… just like some of the other smartphones with non-removable batteries
Its called a internal batter.. Its similar to the iPhone 4s.
Check out http://www.anandtech.com/show/5770/lava-xolo-x900-review-the-first-intel-medfield-phone
I do not understand whats the big fuss about this ! This is an internal battery !!!
Lets see, since we’re out of sensationalist news for today, we’ll rip off the back of a phone that wasnt meant to be removed by consumers and claim that the battery has no connectors but a wire…. and when people comment that it’s the way its supposed to be, we move on to the next thing we’ll rip off….
wow……is this for real…………..WOW!!!! i just ordered the damn thing!!
Common.. try to get some idea on what ur commenting on, its not supposed to be removed. As a couple of folks said its a non replaceable battery. Thats how most likely it would be from here on.. So think b4 u type..
This what happens someone who is used to using a ‘sasta phones’ uses a high end one. :
Look at htc onex or iphone :P
my xolo battery went dead in just 8 months. I had to send it for service through Fedex, that’s the only way to do it, and it came back after 3 weeks, in the same state. oh my.. Service simply sucks.
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