Topic: India

In India, there's a tablet for everyone

Summary: The interest in tablet PCs has gripped the price conscious Indian market with manufacturers leveraging personalities to sell cost-efficient, under powered and crappy tablets.

By Manan Kakkar for India IT | July 19, 2012 -- 19:38 GMT (12:38 PDT)

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Tablet for the spiritual

If you're spiritual and a follower of Sri Sri Ravishankar, his organization partnered with Chennai based OEM EAFT to come up with the Android 2.3 based tablet. The tablet comes bundled with content from Art of Living. It costs ~$340.

Image credit: The Mobile Indian

Topics: India, Tablets

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19 July, 2012 22:26

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manabadiresults
19 July, 2012 22:27

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Crappy review of supposedly crappy tablets

You have stated that these are underpowered crappy tablets. You may be right, but you have presented no data at all to back up your allegations....just presented a bunch of photos At the very lease where is your first hand user's review or where are the specs? Have you even used any of these tablets?

RCS_hkt
19 July, 2012 23:50

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- Agreed
  
  I didn't see this as a review but rather a round up, so I wasn't worried about the lack of specifications and such. Having said that, I definitely expected reviews from elsewhere to back up the claims that these are crappy. No, I'm not saying these are good tablets; I remember reading reviews of some of these tablets elsewhere that echoed Manan's opinion but it's poor journalism to not back up the claim. I'm also taken aback at the last one; why in the world would you label an unreleased tablet crap?
  
  TechPry
  20 July, 2012 02:37
  
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- Seriously?
  
  You need me to review Android 2.x to "back a claim"? Really?
  
  Manan Kakkar
  20 July, 2012 16:56
  
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  - Actually, yes.
    
    There is a big difference between these various pieces of hardware.
    1)Price
    2)Memory type and capacity. Ability for off tablet storage.
    3)Screen type, size, resolution.
    4)Underlying CPU and the customization level applied to the OS.
    5)Battery life
    6)For some people, the degree of "green"
    7)Support levels. I bet at least the call is still local. :-)
    8)Communication type. WIFI or plug in only.
    9)Basic quality of construction.
    
    It DOES make a difference. Something I buy at $100 could be a relative bargain.
    if fulfills my needs. The same item might still be a bargain at $400, or it can be a
    tremendous rip off. A simplistic comparison is buying a computer monitor.
    Both may share certain properties, but the differences in quality reveal themselves
    after use.
    
    richard233
    20 July, 2012 17:40
    
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  - At the least, back it up
    
    I don't expect you review them if they are already out-dated. But I don't see any basis in your post for claiming them to be crappy. Also, like richard233 said, there are so many aspects of the hardware that might appeal to different set of users. In my opinion, without these details, your article serves no purpose.
    
    TechPry
    21 July, 2012 05:11
    
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  - Calling Android 2.3 crap is a little harsh.
    
    If running Android 2.x is your definition of crap, then you seem to have also included a very large number of perfectly useable well made hardware from major manufacturers (Sony, Samsung, HTC, among others) in your definition of crap products. Outdated yes, but crap no.....not even close.
    
    RCS_hkt
    21 July, 2012 11:01
    
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"Crappy" Or Not ...

... they seem to be selling. And India is a pretty large market. So maybe we shouldn't discount these products simply because they're not the sort of thing affluent Westerners would splurge on, eh?

ldo17
20 July, 2012 05:43

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- Reasons
  
  These are cheap marketing stunts that are used to sell products running outdated tech.
  
  Manan Kakkar
  20 July, 2012 16:58
  
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Crappy tabs...

Istopped by HR Gregg the other day (my wife and I are in the narket for a new oven) and saw that, mixed in with their Samsung and ASUS android tablet offerings, they were selling one of those cheapo $99.00 no-name brand Android tablets. Didn't have a whole lot of time to play with it, but I will say that it felt plenty zippy. Yeah, the screen was pretty bad (no doubt 800x480) and it didn't seem to have access to the Android market, but the device seemed plenty usable.

I think we're reaching the point where even cheapo no-name brand tablets are becoming quite usable. That's probably the development that Apple fears most, the point at which you can buy a perfectly usable $100 device that lets you surf the web and check your Facebook status, play Angry Birds and check your appointment calendar: in other words, the stuff that 90% of prospective tablet owners would mostly use their tablet for anyway.

dsf3g
20 July, 2012 12:34

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Crappy tabs...

In India there are so much poverty, that this tablet at that price is really a gift and actually can improve their lives. Maybe you cannot play a game, but certainly, you can do many things quite more useful.

lorenzosjb
20 July, 2012 14:50

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Are the prices in USDs?

"It costs ~$340" - I can imagine it should be very expensive in India if the price is in USD.

Tomas M.
20 July, 2012 15:25

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- Sort of, yes
  
  At $340 selling a tablet running an outdated OS by simply bundling a few apps/vids is disgraceful marketing.
  
  Manan Kakkar
  20 July, 2012 17:00
  
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not expensive

340.0 Indian Rupee = 6.14550384094 US Dollar

preferred user
22 July, 2012 19:18

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- EDIT
  
  Price must have been in USD cheapest Tablet on line in India is USD $45.00
  if that's the case at $345.00 USD the one mentioned is a rip off
  
  preferred user
  22 July, 2012 19:49
  
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Least educational article ever

Manan, this was truly a masterful piece of ... ah, who am I kidding? You should probably just have titled the write-up "Slideshow of tablets in India", because as is, people were actually driven to read about those tablets, not just see pictures of them.

ekwati1
22 July, 2012 20:37

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I think it's an interesting trend..

Budget tablets are not 'under-powered' as you suggest. The Allwinner 1X SoC at $7 will be a game changer for budget tablets as it incorporates the Mali 400 GPU - Swipe Telecom tablets already have it and I am sure others will follow suite. There are many people (like my Dad who is retired) who would consider a budget tablet seriously. I would appreciate objective reviews on the subject from ZDnet. I have done a review of my own on my blog (not trying to plug it, but showing perhaps a more balanced perspective than the writer of this piece?!)
http://www.thegeekafterglow.com/2012/07/budget-tablets-in-india-force-us-to-pay.html

NishaSampath
29 July, 2012 04:46

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And in Venezuela too

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And guess what?

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dkaparunakis@...
26 September, 2012 16:56

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