Byond has launched the Phablet III in India for Rs. 14,499, boasting of a 6-inch display with a 480x854 resolution.
Byond Tech has launched a smartphone-tablet hybrid in India, Phablet PIII. The phablet boasts of a 6-inch FWVGA high-resolution display with an 854 x 480 pixels. Straight out-of-the-box, the phablet will run Android 4.0 ICS. It also boasts of an 8 megapixel rear camera with an LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera for video calling.
Under the hood, a 1GHz dual-core processor powers the Byond Phablet PIII. It also sports a 2500mAh battery. The phablet supports dual-SIM (GSM GSM) functionality along with other connectivity options including Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, 3G and Bluetooth 2.0. The device also has 4GB built-in storage expandable up to 32GB via a microSD card.
The budget phablet market has seen quite a rise in 2012. We have seen devices such as the Zync Cloud Z5, iBall Andi 5C, Micromax Canvas 2 A110 and more make an impact on the budget market.
If you have a budget of Rs. 15,000 for a phablet, you may want to take a look at a tablet with voice calling instead, in the same price range, with much better specifications. After all, the 6-inch form factor is not the most comfortable to hold or pocket, raising the question. The Auxus CoreX2 3G has a 7-inch HD IPS display with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels. It is powered by a dual-core 1.6GHz Cortex A9 processor, 1GB of RAM and the Mali 400 GPU. The device supports a 3G SIM card not only for data but for voice calls as well. The rear of the device houses a 2MP camera and the front has a 0.3MP camera for video calls. Straight out-of-the-box, the Auxus CoreX2 3G runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Also take a look at the iBerry Auxus CoreX43G, where for the price of Rs. 15,990, you get a 9.7-inch IPS display with a 1024×768 pixel resolution, apart from a Samsung Exynos 4412 quad-core 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM and the Mali 400MP GPU. This device also supports a 3G SIM card for data as well as voice. It also has 16GB built-in storage expandable up to 64GB via a microSD card. You can read more details about the tablet here.
