Product Review: iBall Slide 0900-C - Made for the Mango People

What I like best about the iBall Slide 0900-C, is its instinct for the needs of aam aadmi users — for desi digital dreams in a paisa vasool package. The device is only millimetres shy of an 8-inch Android Kiktkat HD (1024 by 724) tablet fuelled by an 8-core ARM chip, with front and back cameras both 5MP, the rear one with flash; dual phone SIMs (one of them thoughtfully, microSIM); a generous 2 GM RAM and 16 GB on onboard storage which can be expanded by a microSD card to another 32 GB.

You will find a dozen brands with similar specs, though arguably not many at the reasonable asking price of Rs 12,999, and even fewer in a package as light as 367 grams. To stand up in such a crowd, of similar spec hardware, iBall cannily works on the software — and includes what the rest of us buyers (not just techies) look for in our primary and possibly only Internet tool: very Indian apps including movie news and classifieds. Again see the clever positioning.

While e-books on classier platforms like Kindle could set you back $9, the choices here start at Re 9 — and not your Society Page authors either but earthier fare. This is clearly for the ‘Other India’ and thank God device makers finally recognise where the real market lies.

One final plus. This is easily one of the loudest tablets I have tried out this year — you won’t need speakers or headphones with this one when you watch movies.

— IndiaTechOnline