Hands On - Reliance 3G Tab

The recently launched and much publicized Reliance 3G Tab has made its way to our hands, while we dig deep into it for a detailed review, we are ready with our initial impressions and some exclusive images.

Initial Impressions:

• Build quality is quite acceptable, the device feels reasonably solid and the finish does not feel cheap or typically low-cost.
  
  
• While it’s not as slim as an iPad 2, the Reliance 3G Tab is identical in dimensions as the Samsung Galaxy Tab (very first 7-inch version); it’s not overly chunky or heavy.
  
  
• The 7-inch capacitive screen is largely accurate in response, though there are occasional freezes and stutters. Colours appear washed out and contrast isn’t a strong point of this tablet.
  
  
• Gingerbread performance is average for most part, it can be compared to the LG Optimus P500 running on Gingerbread. Overall, the lag is not frustrating but does not go unnoticed either.
  
  
• The battery charging seems pretty fast, 10 minutes of charging pushed the battery level to 9% from a completely discharged unit.
  We ran couple of initial benchmarks, the Reliance 3G Tab logged a score of 950 points on the Quadrant Standard benchmark
  
  
• The camera quality is rubbish, enough said.

With Bharti Airtel launching the Rs 9,999 Android tablet under the "Beetel" umbrella, the budget/value tablet space seems to be finally seeing the light of the day, expect lot more announcements soon.

We shall be out with our detailed review of the Reliance 3G Tablet with more benchmarks and tests in the 48 hours, stay tuned.......

In the meanwhile, read on for an up close and personal look at the Reliance 3G Tab:

The 3G Tab Box, for those who are looking for the complete picture ;)

Isn't this cool..! I dont have much knowledge about Androids as i have not used it but i think this is affordable one..!

First of all this was a very exiting review ! I must congratulate author ..

Tab seems quite exciting at a price of 12k but some core features and specs lack ...

As told earlier by BESTGEEK .. It has low processor which can undeed affect multitasking and other graphic related jobs ..

Meanwhile .. The biggest demerit is to unlock it for the use on other networks .. ( i m pretty sure it will run only reliance)

So it is wise to go for a more expensive tab ....

Unlocking will not be an issue if this thing picks the market, which I'm slightly skeptical (not much though). Price is the sweet spot where you can ignore some of the feature/performance issues. It's handy in situations where you want full browsing experience (n somehow you don't know how to open full pages in your mobile ), but don't push yourself to play Ashphalt, Real Soccer, NOVA or similar. Your device will get to its knee n starts beggin.
My take is that, it's not for nerds but for vintage jerks.

BestGeeK wrote:

Unlocking will not be an issue if this thing picks the market, which I'm slightly skeptical (not much though). Price is the sweet spot where you can ignore some of the feature/performance issues. It's handy in situations where you want full browsing experience (n somehow you don't know how to open full pages in your mobile ), but don't push yourself to play Ashphalt, Real Soccer, NOVA or similar. Your device will get to its knee n starts beggin.
My take is that, it's not for nerds but for vintage jerks.

TRUE SAID !!

I bought this ..

eveyrthing seems to be fine except one big miss there is no video chat app over wifi connection.

Infact if I am not wrong reliance specifically disabled ths video chat feature for this tab , as in all the android 2.3.4 versions google talk comes with video chat feature.

plus other free apps frm the android market fr video chat (oovoo etc) can't be installed as they do not recognize the maufacturer as that field is not filled in the OS of this tab.

it can't play avi ,mpeg and wmv video formats ,but ther are free apps in the market to do that, so no issues here.

overall a decent buy .. i just wish they cud bring an update fr video chat in google talk ..

Really, it is hard to figure out why Reliance disabled video chat feature even when the OS has a native support for that.

But is must be clear that this device has been targeted towards value for money (of course for the cost of features).

Though it is possible to play formats like .avi, .wmv and mpeg using apps available in the Android Market, but, I doubt the quality wise.

We have a lotta tabs around which are capable of rendering 1080p videos as well.

Now if we look at the graphics capabilities, as quoted by BestGeek, such devices are going to beg.

We recommend such devices only for the value for money & and definitely not for power users, multitaskers & gamers!

Poor processor doesnt deserve enough multitasking ..