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iBall Slide i701

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iBall Slide i701
Samir Sarkar@samirthewind
Feb 01, 2016 03:11 PM, 2044 Views
Most affordable Tab

Build quality feels very good




  • The tablet has a soft touch/rubbery coating on the back and sides, which prevents slipping when held




  • OTG cable included




  • Windows 8.1( Core) OS - this makes it a full-fledged Windows desktop!




  • Subscription to single-user Office 365 Personal for 1 year( this is itself a Rs. 3300 subscription otherwise)




  • Free goodies like HDMI cable, and 3 covers. Comes with a screen guard fitted to the screen, a velvet-like pouch for the tablet, and a micro-fiber cloth for the screen.




  • Accepts a micro-SD card, so you can store as much as you wish( note that although the tablet is advertised as having 16 GB storage built-in, the formatted capacity is 14.46 GB, of which 5.08 GB goes to a recovery partition, about 5 GB for the Windows OS itself, leaving 4 GB free) .




  • Screen resolution is physically 1024x600. Metro apps cannot run at this resolution, so in software, the resolution is increased to 1280x768, resulting in fonts looking a little fuzzy/hard to read.




  • Does not have a physical/capacitive start button to open the start screen. You need to swipe in from the right margin to show the charms bar.




  • When held in portrait mode, viewing angles are extremely narrow, and even little tilting results in colours washing out. This is present even in landscape mode, but is not as severe as portrait.




  • Tablet came with a user named’ii’ already pre-configured, and the tablet named as’i’. I performed a Windows Recovery to restore Windows from the recovery partition, and this took me through the OOBE( out-of-box-experience) setup process, as expected.






In all, great value at the price. Just be aware that the screen resolution and display angles may be an annoyance. Even so, at the price it is offered, it is tremendous value.

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