Aakash tablet when announced for the first time, world was amazed with $ 35 price tablet. The excitement didn’t last longer as this turned out to be a flop show. Soon to follow were alternatives of Aakash tablet and out of them we have listed few best alternatives to Aakash tablet. We find BSNL T Pad as the best perfect alternative to it and its priced just at Rs 3500. Remaining others are priced almost double than Aakash original price.
Wishtel a company based out of Mumbai, India has come up with an Android powered tablet and they are branding with ‘IRA’ tablet. Wishtel has launched three tablets in Indian market and they are named as Ira, Ira Thing and Ira Icon. These three tablets are price with Rs 4,000, Ira Thing 5,500 and no pricing has been revealed for Ira Icon tablet. The specifications of Ira and Ira Thing are same and Ira Icon is the high end tablet among the three tablets.
Wishtel during the launch of this tablet said that these tablets comes with pre installed with various apps such as media player, Skype, Gtalk and weather but let us tell you that it comes pre installed with the Android operating system and nothing is new here.
Ira Tablet
Ira is a 7 inches Android tablet which comes out with a think and high resolution display screen. With its slim body and convenient touch it’s quite easy to operate and you can enjoy your life. The Android version included in this tablet is the Android 2.2 Froyo OS. This tablet comes with Wi Fi internet access and supports external 3G data card and includes connectivity via WCDMA, EVDO, TD SCDMA. This tablet also includes the 2800 mAh battery which comes with Lithium Poly battery providing 5 hours of video playback or 3 G usage or Wi Fi internet access. This is quite low for a tablet. It comes with USB 2.0 high speed and internet explorer, media player, photo viewer, MSN office, Skype. This comes with external microphone, 3.5 mm earphone jack and built in speakers as well.
This tablet comes with accessories adapter, user manual, usb cable and earphone. Since there is Android on this tablet it comes with Android Play Store access with which you can install various Android applications for free and paid as well.
Ira Thing
Ira Thing tablet comes with 7 inches touchscreen display and it includes the Google Android 2.2 Froyo operating system. It comes with Wi Fi internet access and supports 3G, data card and includes WCDMA, EVDO and TD SCDMA support. It comes with USB 2.0 High speed connectivity and the package includes the adapter, user manual, usb cable and the earpiece.
The specifications of this tablet are same as that of the Ira tablet and it comes in the black and white variants.
Ira Icon
Ira Icon is the high end tablet in comparison with the above two tablets. It comes with 7 inches TFT display screen with capacitive touch and includes version of Android as 2.3 Gingerbread. This comes with Cortex A8 processor clocked at 1.2 Ghz and has Wi Fi internet access. It also comes with built in WCDMA 3G internet access and has the option of capacitive TP and resistive.
It comes with various video playback supports such as Avi, H.264, Divx, Xvid, rm, rmvb, WMV, MOV, Mp4, DAT, MPEG, MPG, FLV, ASF, TS, TP, 3GP, MPG etc., and includes audio format supports of MP3, WMA, mp2, oGG, AAC, M4A, FLAC, APE, 3GP, WAV and picture support in the format of JPG, JPEG, GIF, BMP and PNG.
It comes with 4000 mAh battery which provides a complete 8 hours of the playback time and this tablets weight 220 grams. Since this tablet comes with Android operating system it includes free Google pre-installed such as Google Maps, Google Mail, Google Navigation, Google Places, Google Plus and Google Talk. Android Play Store i.e., Android Market can be accessed any time on this tablet to provide you installation of various Android applications.
When we talk about Indian manufactured tablets there are lot to offer with Beetel Magiq 3G Tablet, Cisco Cius Tablet, Zinglife z97t, HCL Me X Tablet, Tabplus Rio Tablet, Reliance 3G Tablet, Spice Mi 270, Huawei Mediapad 7, Fujezone 3G Tablet, Sruta 7 Tablet, Micromax P300 Tablet, Mercury mtab2 tablet & Lacs Tablet.