Aakash or BSNL Tablet?

BSNL Penta tablets

With the advent of BSNL in the tablet market, the competition has become even tougher. Though its intentions are primarily to compete against the cheapest tablet, Aakash , but its other two low priced tablets can make a change of mind of the buyers looking for a tablet within Rs 15,000, especially Reliance 3G tablet, MSI Enjoy pad, Beetel magiq, Mercury MPad, Infibeam Phi and Olive Pad VT 100 Looking into the specifications, many buyers may have to re-order their shortlist.

But in this blog, i will try to stick myself to low priced tablets within Rs3500 and obviously the 2 tablets which come under this category are Aakash(along with Ubislate and Ubislate 7+) and BSNL Penta Tpad IS 701r Tablet.For better comparison, I have provided my review of all the tablets at last.

Aakash Tablet

First let's see the new comer:

BSNL Penta Tpad IS 701R :

• MODEL : BSNL Penta Tpad IS 701R
• DEVELOPER: Pantel technology, noida
• DIMENSION: N/A
• WEIGHT: N/A
• PROCESSOR:  ARM 11 IMAP210, 1 GHZ Processor
• RAM: 256 MB
• SCREEN: 800x600 Resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio, 7inch resistive screen
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Android 2.3 OS
• MEMORY: 2GB internal + expandable
• CAMERA: Front facing 0.3(VGA)
• OTHER FEATURES: wi-fi supported, HDMI port, 3000MAh battery,Adobe flash 10.3, G-sensor for screen rotation, 3.5 mm audio jack, Supported Document Formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP, PDF Viewer, Text Editor, Multimedia & Image Display, Image Viewer supported formats: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF
• ATTRACTIVE FEATURE: 3-Months free data download(5GB)
• PRICE: Rs 3499
• AVAILABILITY: Available across BSNL outlets from 1st march
• BOOKING: Book now

Aakash Tablet

• MODEL: Aakash Tablet
• DEVELOPER: Datawind
• DIMENSION:  190.5 mm (7.50 in) H
                     118.5 mm (4.67 in) W
                       15.7 mm (0.62 in) D
• WEIGHT:  350 g
• PROCESSOR: Arm 11 366 MHZ processor
• RAM: 256 MB
• SCREEN: 800x480 Resolution, 7 inch resistive touch screen
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Android 2.2 OS
• MEMORY: 2GB + expandable
• CAMERA: No camera
• OTHER FEATURES: wifi supported, 3.5 mm jack, 2100 MAh battery, 3G modem support,  Supported Document Formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP, PDF Viewer, Text Editor, Multimedia & Image Display, Image Viewer supported formats: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF
• PRICE: Rs 2499
• AVAILABILITY: Expected from march, 2012
• BOOKING: Book now

 Ubislate Tablet

• MODEL: Ubislate
• DEVELOPER: Datawind
• DIMENSION n WEIGHT: More or less same as Aakash Tablet
• PROCESSOR:  Cortex a8-700 mhz processor
• RAM: 256 MB
• SCREEN: 800x480 Resolution, 7 inch resistive touch screen
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Android 2.3 OS
• MEMORY: 2GB + expandable
• CAMERA: No camera
• OTHER FEATURES: graphics accelerator, hd video processor, 3200 MAh battery, 1 usb port, 3.5 mm audio jack, GPRS and wifi enabled, other same as Aakash Tablet
• PRICE: Rs 2999
• AVAILABILITY: expected from march, 2012
• BOOKING: Book now

Ubislate 7+ Tablet

*All features and specifications of Ubislate 7+ are same as of Ubislate except its additional sim and phone functions and 2 USB ports.

• PRICE: Rs 2999
• BOOKING: Book now

Review

From availability point of view, BSNL takes an edge over Aakash. Now, this is obvious ! Aakash has already failed 3 times to stick to its deadline of delivery. It has handed only 10,000 Tablets to the government for distribution among students( they might have over looked a few zeroes in the delivery request!). However, being the dominating public telecom company BSNL has many service and distribution  outlets all over India. Let's hope it keeps to the promise !

Looking at the specifications, let us put Aakash aside, and compare BSNL to Ubislate. Specifications of BSNL tablet are also far better than Ubislate as it has better resolution screen, faster processor, HDMI port and obviously a camera. But, comparing it with Ubislate 7+ is difficult as both the Tablets have competing features. BSNL got a VGA camera, faster processor and HDMI port, on the other hand, Ubislate 7+ has got 2 usb ports, phone(sim) functions, 3200 MAh battery, GPRS and lower price. But, don't neglect the free Data download of 5GB with BSNL Tablet.