Recently, we saw a review of how products like smartphones, Smart Speakers performed in the Indian market in 2020. Now, a new report by IDC takes us back to last year to tell us how tablet devices sold in the country.

According to the report, the heart of the tablet device demands was around $100-200 which is a no-brainer. 2020 was an unusual year in the last decade as people were forced to study and work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This meant the demand for tablets started rising rapidly.

As a result Tablet vendors got the most of 2020 when it comes to shipments. Especially, Lenovo, whose tablets are very popular, registered a whopping 153% YoY growth despite facing a 15.1% decline in the commercial segment. It is the market leader with a 39% market share in India.

Anyway, the report says that a total of 2.8 million units of tablet devices shipped in India last year. This translates to a 14.7% YoY growth and it is the first positive growth in the last 4 years. Out of this, consumer shipments account for 59.8% YoY growth over 2019 whereas commercial shipments plummeted by 14.3%.

The Chinese giant Lenovo is followed by companies like Samsung, Apple, iBall, Huawei, and others. Samsung went a step above Lenovo and saw a 157% YoY growth. The company brought promising tablets like the Galaxy Tab A7 2020 to help boost sales.

Despite struggling with stocks initially, Apple managed to jump back to 3rd in the tablet segment in India. Its growth reached 13% YoY while companies like iBall faced a 69.4% decline in shipments.

Last but not the least, seeing Huawei on the list is a bit of a surprise considering the tussle with the US it’s been facing. The report says that Huawei saw a Tri-fold growth in the tablet segment in 2020 in India. Attractive price points and online Ads helped the company pull this kind of numbers.

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The India Tablet Market grew 23% QoQ in Q2 2020 in terms of shipments according to CyberMedia Research (CMR). Lenovo led the market, followed by the Samsung and Apple in second and third positions respectively.

The COVID-19 global pandemic made everyone continue their work and education from home. This resulted in a demand for tablets across the world. The Indian market was no different in the second quarter of 2020.

The overall market increased by 23% QoQ, whereas shipments of tablets with WiFi grew by 98% QoQ. Tablets with 7-8-inch display constituted 35% of total shipments. On the other hand, tablets with 10-inch and above displays accounted for 64%.

Lenovo conquered 48% of the entire India Tablet Market shipments by growing 24% QoQ. However, in the second position with 29% market share, Samsung was the most successful brand in the quarter with a whopping 143% QoQ growth. Lenovo M10 (HD, FHD, FHD Plus) and Galaxy Tab A 10.1 2019 (LTE, Wi-Fi) were the best-selling models of these two brands.

Apple garnered 12% market share by growing 36% QoQ with the help of iPad 7th Generation. Surprisingly, iBall clinched to the fourth position with a mere 3% market share.

Having said that, CMR forecasts the India Tablet Market to continue growing in the coming quarters even if the COVID-19 vaccine is out.

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Expanding its portfolio of tablets in India, iBall has launched a new tablet in the Indian market — iBall Imprint 4G with a price tag of Rs. 19,999 which roughly converts to $293.

The highlight of the iBall Imprint 4G tablet is that it comes with an integrated fingerprint scanner that is Aadhar-certified, located below the display. It is STQC certified and can be used for Aadhaar verification at Aadhaar centers across the country.

However, the tablet is not equipped with a standard fingerprint scanner, thus the users won’t be able to unlock the device using the integrated fingerprint scanner. It comes with support for 22 regional languages and is also available with an STQC-certified iris scanner. While the company says that the device is rugged, but it does not come with military grade certification.

The company also says that the iBall Slide Imprint 4G has been designed to simplify the ease of use and portability of Aadhaar authentication for establishments such as banks, government offices, RTOs, educational institutions, sales automation, and B2B.

The iBall Imprint 4G features a 7-inch HD IPS display with screen resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels with full capacitive multi-touch support. It is powered by a 64-bit 1.3GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor paired with 1GB of RAM. There’s another variant of the tablet that comes with 2GB RAM.

The tablet is equipped with 8GB of inbuilt storage, with an option for 16GB inbuilt storage variant. It also has a microSD card slot enabling users to expand the storage up to 32GB. In the camera department, the tablet comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera with autofocus and LED flash. On the front side, there’s a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash as well.

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Connectivity options on the device include 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth 4.1, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS/ AGPS, Micro-HDMI, Micro-USB, USB 2.0, FM radio, and 3mm headphone jack. Running on Android 7.0 Nougat operating system, the tablet is powered by a 5000mAh battery.

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India’s Mobile Manufacturers are offering their smartphones against the stiff competition by the Chinese Manufacturers. Will the Indian smartphones will give the chinese vendors decent competition?  Recently, Wickedleak presented very affordable octa-core smartphone, the Wammy Neo Youth, only at INR 8,500 or US$ 140. iBall also launched their phone, the octa-core iBall Andi 5K Panther.

The iBall’s smartphone, Andi 5K Panther, sports 5-inch 960×540 pixel HD display. The phone runs on octa-core 1.4 GHz MediaTek MT6592. It is same as in the Xiaomi Redmi lower version. Detailed specs of Andi 5K Panther are as follow:

Specifications

• 5-inch 960 x 540p display

• 1.4GHz octa-core CPU

• 1GB RAM

• 8GB on-board ROM

• 8 mega-pixel rear camera

• 2 mega-pixel front camera

• 1900mAh battery

• Android v4.4 KitKat

• Dual SIM

iBall’s Andi 5K Panther is available at just INR 10,500, which seeing the specs seems a very good deal. The specs of Andi 5K Panther seem very similar to Lenovo’s Golden Warrior A8, the only difference is that the Panther doesn’t come with LTE.

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