At first glance, the 8X-1000 looks like a solid black slab with almost no markings of any kind. You won't see anything on the front face, but you'll just about be able to make out where the front camera, sensors and earpiece are. It would be very easy to pick this phone up and try to use it upside down. There's a shiny silver Xolo logo on the rear and silver accents around the camera lens, flash, headset socket and Micro-USB port - that's it for design flourishes.
The Xolo 8X-1000 is powered by an octa-core MediaTek MT6592M processor running at 1.4GHz with integrated Mali-450 MP4 graphics. There's 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage space. The 5-inch screen has a decent resolution of 720x1280. There's an 8-megapixel camera on the rear and a 2-megapixel one in front. Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi b/g/n are supported, along with the usual proximity sensor, ambient light sensor and accelerometer.
