iBall launches Android tablet for Rs 13,995
By: Satej Patil| Sep 8th, 2011 at 04:21PM
iBall has today launched its first tablet in India, the Slide, for Rs 13,995. This Android Gingerbread tablet has a 7.0-inch WVGA capacitive multi-touch display and is based on a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor. This 3G ready device offers Connectivity features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 8GB of internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB, a front facing 2.0MP camera and an HDMI port. Its 4,400 mAh battery is claimed to provide 6.5 hours of music playback time and 5 hours of video playback. While other vendors are betting big on their slim tablets, iBall’s Slide seems to be bit chunky with a very thick bezel. It will compete with the Reliance Tab 3G, which is priced at Rs 12,999
Dell has expanded its Latitude series by launching the Latitude XT3 laptop in India. The device features a rotatable 13.3-inch HD LCD display which easily manages to oscillate between becoming a laptop display or a full fledged tablet. How? You can detach the display from the keyboard anytime you want and can use it as a tablet. Apart form using fingers, you can also scribble on its display with the help of the digital pen which you’ll get with it. On the inside, this tablet PC sports Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processor, Windows 7 and 2GB RAM. With its ExpressCharge tech, the 9-cell extended battery gets re-charged almost 80 per cent in just an hour’s time. Prices start from Rs 100,000.
Bigger isn’t always better: Nokia Ovi Store apps downloaded 160% more than iOS apps
Apple’s iOS App Store is the world’s most popular on-device mobile app portal by leaps and bounds, but that doesn’t necessarily make it the best opportunity for developers according to Berlin, Germany-based market research firm research2guidance. Apple has a wide lead over competitors in terms of overall downloads and the number of applications in its App Store, but individual apps seemingly have a greater chance of success in rival offerings from Nokia, Microsoft and RIM. ”The ‘average app’ has a better chance to generate downloads on ‘non-hyped’ platforms,” the firm said in a press release on Wednesday. In the second quarter of 2011, the average application in Nokia’s Ovi Store generated 160% more daily downloads than the average iOS app in Apple’s App Store. Individual apps were downloaded from Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace 80% more often each day than from the App Store on average, and apps in RIM’s BlackBerry App World generated 43% more daily downloads than Apple’s offering. Software titles in Google’s Android Market were downloaded 5% less often each day compared to the iOS App Store, and Apple had HP’s webOS App Catalog beat by 95% last quarter. Research2guidance’s full press release follows below along with a chart outlining the firm’s second-quarter data.
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