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Sunday, March 11, 2012

BSNL Launches 3 Budget Tablets in India


With tablet PCs gaining prominence around the world, it was just a matter of time before the state owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) jumped into the fray with a tablet offering of its own. To make up for being a bit late in the segment, it has three tablet devices to offer, all aimed at the low cost to the budget segment. They would have 7 or 8 inch sized display of either resistive or capacitive touchscreen. Not surprisingly, the OS for the tablets would be Android 2.3 and would be manufactured by the Noida based company Pantel.



Penta T PAD IS 701R: The lineup starts with the Panta Tpad tablet that is priced at Rs. 3,250. The Indian tablet market has until now been abuzz with the cheapest tablet Aakash that costs Rs. 2,500, though the Panta Tpad has a slightly higher specification in spite of being in the same segment.
The Panta Tpad is a Wi-fi only device with a 1 GHz ARM11 IMAP210 processor and an on-board RAM of 256 MB. The tablet comes with a 7 inch resistive display, having a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels, with an aspect ratio of 16:9. The tablet comes with an internal memory of 2 GB which is further expandable via a microSD card, while powering the device is a 3000 mAH battery. The tablet also has a 0.3 megapixel front facing VGA camera as well as an HDMI port.
Penta TPAD WS704C: The next in line is the Panta Tpad WS704C tablet, which is similar to the 701r model in specification with the additional features of it being 3G capable. It supports both CDMA/EVDO and GSM. It also has a GPS, accelerometer, and Bluetooth connectivity. The RAM is 512 MB in this case and the rear facing camera is of 2 megapixel resolution.
Penta TPAD WS802C: The Tpad WS802C is the top of the line model and comes at a price of Rs. 13,500. It offer 8 inch of screen real estate and is based on capacitive touchscreen technology. The tablet also is powered by a more powerful 1.2 GHz CPU and is aided by a 512 MB RAM. The device comes with an internal memory of 4 GB, while other features match that of the 704C model.
Data plans that BSNL is offering include 5 GB of 3G data usage for Rs. 750, and 7.5 GB 2G usage for INR 250 for the three tablets. All the tablets also carry a one year warranty.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

India's Cheapest Tablet PC,Aakash Specifications And Review

All of us are very well aware of India's cheapest tablet PC launched. They named it Aakash. Indian govt. promised last year to invent a cheapest tablet PC, so that every student can get to know know what is a tablet and how it works. Now govt. kept their promise and Aakash is in market. Anyone can purchase it online by visiting it's official website www.aakashtablet.com just for Rs. 2500/-



Here i am presenting secifications and review of this tablet PC.

First of all lets start with hardware configuration of this tablet:

- 366 MHz processor with graphics accelerator and HD video processor.
- Memory: Internal: 2GB/ 256 MB RAM
                 External: 32 GB max. supported.
- Ports: USB 2.o/ 1 standard USB port.
- Audio: 3.5 mm audio jack(in/out)
- Display: 7 inch of display/touch screen diagonally, 800X480 pixel resolution.
- Connectivity: GPRS and WiFi.


Now lets see it from software point of view:

- Working on Google's Android OS (2.2 Froyo).
- Supported document formats: DOC, DOCX, PPTX, PPT, XLS, XLSX, ODT.
- PDF reader
- Image format supported: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF.
- Audio and video formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, MPEG4, MPEG2, FLV, AVI.


That's all about specifications, now head towards it's review.

Student version of this tablet comes with loaded applications. Games, calleneder, organiser, advanced lessons on physics- though they used up just a quarter of the screen and were hard to read.

Screen is resistive and irresponsive, you need to press hard to get response. 
Processor is week as it heats up very fast during multitasking, it could be problematic. One more weak point about the tablet is that you can't install anything from Android market(it seems worthless to me). 

In short it will work like a rs.2500 thing only. Don't axpect speed and performance from it. In my opinion it is for the people who want to start. Only a fresher will use it, an expert can't take this poor performance.

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