Meet Xodium: A nerd's dreamphone

The OnePlus One was the best value for money mobile device of this year. Coming with the slogan 'Never settle' OnePlus was really aiming at taking the high end spectrum of the mobile sector with surprise & it did! The OnePlus One was a hit (except its invite-only system) & it led people to ask an important question 'Can a small time company can provide high specs at affordable prices, what is stopping the big name brands from doing so?' Actually, the big brands are scared of the Chinese duo, Xiaomi and OnePlus but they don’t seem serious about cutting them at source by bringing their own devices which can counter the rising Chinese brands. In fact, these are no small time threats for the established brands; Xiaomi has raced up to the top of the podium in China, throwing off Samsung in the India. This proves the fact that the company that offers maximum features at the lowest cost will win the market, and a new entrant is trying its luck with this philosophy.

With that same ideology in mind, meet Xodium, it looks like the brethren of Xiaomi and OnePlus. The phone sports top of the line features with pretty good looks and an innovative new user interface atop Android (no surprise here). Xodium’s spec sheet will blow your mind on the first look. The phone has the innards to take on the likes of even the Nexus 6!

The company's website claims the device can play 4K videos on its Quad HD display. The processor on the device is the top of the line, a quad-core Snapdragon 805 clocking at 2.7 GHz running the show and with 3GB of RAM, you know this bad boy is going to be fast.... really fast! It will available in two storage options, 32 GB and 64 GB. The bit that will make it really aspirational is the fact that it has expandable storage up to 128 GB also! All of the above is juiced up by a 3200 mAh battery. And to top it all off, it runs on a custom operating system called ‘xOS’ which is based on Android 5 Lollipop.

The display on the device is a delight, and maybe the biggest selling feature of the device. The 5.5 inch Super AMOLED display has a resolution of 1440×2560(2K) and has a pixel density of 534 ppi. This will make it by far the best display in its price point. The display is also protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3!

Just like the screen the device doesn’t shy up on the camera either. It has a 16 MP main shooter with optical image stabilization and is capable of 4K recording. On the front, you have a 5MP shooter with LED flash (like the HTC Desire EYE). The device lets you take images simultaneously while recording videos.

Xodium also has a wide range of sensors such as heart rate sensor, gestures, UV, compass, barometer and other usual sensors including NFC.

Now this phone one-ups the OnePlus One and the Mi4 in every side. On the website, the price is stated as $329 (Rs. 20,610) for 32GB and $379 (Rs. 23,742) for the 64 GB variant. This sounds like the sweetest music to any device enthusiast. But we can’t shake off the feeling that it sounds too good to be true. On the website, when you click the buy now button, you only get the option to pre-order by Bitcoin, which is regarded as unreliable way of making transactions. The PayPal option is currently inactive. The website claims they can ship the order anywhere for free which also sounds unreasonable. We would love for this device to be real, who wouldn’t, but we are not sending our hard earned money there way till we see a working device.

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