Among the three, IS701R is the entry level and also the cheapest one at Rs 3,200.
The Penta T-Pad IS701R is a powerful tablet solution at an very affordable price. The tablet is better than Aakash tablets in many ways as discussed previously. It also comes with the reliability of BSNL.
Following are the features of the tablet:
All the three tablets are up for pre-orders now on their web-site. You can straight away purchase them by pre-ordering yours. Since out of all the three, T-Pad IS701R is the cheapest and most favourable from students point of view, we’ll first talk about the same. Here’s all you have to do buy any of the BSNL tablet:
Also you can check out the BSNL tablet store in your city, BSNL Tablet store.
You can order your T-Pad by going to following link -
You can also subscribe to our SMS channel to get the tablet store info on your mobile. Subscribe to SMS to get booking information.
Reader of this site can also get a chance to win a free BSNL tablet. See here win a BSNL tab.
Click on the button “PRE – BOOK NOW” and fill in the form which comes up with all the necessary details and click “ORDER NOW” once you are done with the form.
Since you already saw the BSNL tab Penta T-Pad IS 701R, Lets compare the specifications of BSNL tab with both the Aakash tablets. As there are three BSNL tablet, the only tablet that come close to Aakash tablet is BSNL Penta T-Pad IS 701R. The following table is showing the comparison between Aakash, Ubislate 7 and Penta T-Pad IS 701R.
| Tablet | Penta T-Pad IS 701R | Askash 1 | Aakash 2 (Ubislate7) |
| Processor | ARM11 IMAP210, 1GHZ |
ARM11 366MHz | ARM Cortex-A8, 700MHz |
| RAM | 256MB DDR2 | 256MB DDR2 | 256MB DDR2 |
| Battery | 3000mAh | 2100mAh | 3200mAh |
| Operating System | Android 2.3 Gingerbread |
Android 2.2 FroYo |
Android 2.3 Gingerbread |
| Network | Wi-Fi only | Wi-Fi only | Wi-Fi+GPRS via SIM card |
| Phone Call | No | No | Yes |
| Touch Screen | 7-inch, Resistive | 7-inch, Resistive | 7-inch, Resistive |
| Screen Resolution | 800×600 px | 800×480 | 800×480 |
| Audio jack | 3.5mm | 3.5mm | 3.5mm |
| HDMI | Yes | No | No |
| Support for Office files |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| No.of USB ports | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Price | Rs. 3,200 | Rs. 2,499 | Rs. 2,999 |
BSNL Tabs
2) Other low cost Android tablet inIndia
BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) on collaboration with Noida-based company Pantel Technologies, has launched three tablets which includes one 7-inch screen tablet with resistive screen and it runs on Android 2.3 operating system, while the second comes with 7-inch screen and the third tablet comes with an 8-inch screen, both of which are capacitive but with a higher price.
These tablets are designed keeping in mind the students need, the tablet come with a promotional offer of 3 month free data download. BSNL is also giving 2G SIM along with all the tablets.
Developed by the Noida based company – Pantel technologies. The tablet will be sold at data plans from BSNL at reduced cost. The cost of these tablet will be Rs 3250, Rs 10,999 and Rs 13,500. (more…)
