We liked Simmtronics XPad X720 for its graphics, 3G support, seamless experience and above all its economical price. Sadly though, while evaluating this tablet, we felt the same vigour missing. Despite some of its attractions like a 2G SIM slot, 3G via dongle, a USB 2.0 slot, an 8-inch/4:3 ratio display, bigger battery and 8GB internal storage, it failed to qualify as our ideal 8k tablet, something which the lesser priced X720 readily pulled off among 4k tablets.
XPad X801 has a cheap metallic back panel with a shiny yet matte finish which is smudge free. But the shiny front display is exactly the opposite and so gets smudged a lot. The panel has smooth curved edges, which makes it comfortable to hold, but it can't obscure the fact that it also feels a little heavy. Its display has a decent but regular 800x600p resolution and looks okay. The playback of SD videos was smooth. The tablet can serve your modest needs very well. You can do your social networking, read and reply back to your mails, play music at a fairly good tempo and watch non-HD movies. The tablet has dual cameras, the 2MP rear one looks a little washed out but so do the cameras in most of the budget tablets. This has 8GB internal storage besides the 32GB external. The presence of SIM slot rids you of spending extra on a data card dongle, but this one supports only 2G. It's better to go for tablets, like Zen A700, which support 3G via SIM and come for a similar price.
In Antutu test, it scored just 2153 which is very low. We have seen some 8k tablets register upto 5k. The score of 527 in Vellamo web browsing performance test is again among the lowest. The same average performance echoes in An3D bench and An3D bench XL 3D graphics test with ordinary scores of 4957 and 10077 respectively. Its battery lasted a decent 5 hours in our battery test.
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Tablets below 15k:
Specs | Spice Stellar Pad Pad Mi 1010 | Penta Tpad WS802C | Intex Buddy Connect | Mitashi Play BE200 | Zync Z999 Plus | Micromax Funbook Pro | Acer Iconia B1 | Simmtronics X 801 |
Price(Rupees) | 13,000 | 8,299 | 7,990 | 7,990 | 11,990 | 10,000 | 7,999 | 8,500 |
Operating System | Android 4.1 Jelly bean | Android 4.0 ICS | Android 4.0 ICS | Android 4.0 ICS | Android 4.0 ICS | Android 4.0 ICS | Android 4.1 Jelly bean | Android 4.0 ICS |
Processor | 1.5 GHz dual core, quad core GPU | 1.2 GHz | 1 GHz single core, quad core GPU | 1 GHz sungle core | 1.5 GHz single core | 1.2 GHz single core, quad core GPU | Dual-core 1.2 GHz processor | 1.2 GHz single core, quad core GPU |
Display (size, res, type) | 10 inch, 1280x800 p, multi-touch | 8inch, 800x600, multi-touch | 7inch, 800x480p, multi-touch | 9inch, 800x480p, multi-touch | 7inch, 800x480p, multi-touch | 10inch, 1024x600p, multi-touch | 7-inch, 1024x600p, multi-touch | 8-inch, 800x600, multi-touch |
Storage | 16GB internal, 32GB external | 4GB internal, 32GB external | 4GB internal, 32GB external | 8GB internal, 32 GB external | 8GB internal, 32GB external | 8GB internal, 32GB external | 8GB internal, 32GB external | 8GB internal, 32GB external |
Memory | 1GB | 1GB | 512MB | 512MB | 512MB | 1GB | 512MB | 512MB |
Camera | 0.3MP front, 3MP rear | 0.3MP front | 0.3MP front, 2MP rear | 0.3MP front | 0.3MP front, 2 MP rear | 0.3MP front, 2 MP rear | 0.3MP front, 2 MP rear | camera 2 MP rear, 0.3 MP front |
Battery Life (hours) | 6 | 4.3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 |