iBerry BT07i Tablet Review

Last year, we saw a sudden spike in the number of affordable tablets that were entering the Indian market. While Aakash set the affordable tablet stage on fire with its price tag, performance issues didn't ensure a smooth sail to it, and to most of these tablets starting at 2.5K and ranging slightly over 10K. In the low segment tablet race, the newest entrant is iBerry, the brand may be unheard of and the name has probably taken cues from Apple’s ‘i’devices and BlackBerry, but the iBerry tablet we’ve got under our hood for a review comes across as promising. Yes, it falls under the sub-10K price range, and you wont be spending more than Rs.7,990 on this average 7-incher dubbed, iBerry BT07i.

Affordable sub-8K model

Design and Build quality
The iBerry is a 7-inch tablet, which could remind you of the Reliance 3G Tab, at a glance. To begin with, it’s a good looking tablet with greyish edges and a matte grey with a purplish tint on the rear side. The front shows a WVGA 800 x 480 and fortunately, a capacitive touchscreen. The touchscreen responded efficiently to our touch gestures. But, the screen, itself isn't too great. Below the screen, on the bezel, one will find touch buttons, like Menu, Home and Back. All ports are lined up on the right edge - microSD card, miroUSB port, HDMI, 3.5mm jack and mic and charging port. The volume controls and the main power button run along the upper edge. There is a front facing VGA camera embedded on the right corner below the screen, but the company chose not to include a primary camera. It's portable at 376 grams and measures 190mm x 120mm x 8mm.

The rear side

The iBerry tablet bundles up a USB cable and a connector, charger, user manual, earphones and a carrying case. Coming straight to the point, the case is almost useless and a misfit, covering the essential buttons and the tablet doesn’t stay secure in the case.

On video: iBerry 7 inch tablet

Features

User Interface

This iBerry tablet is fuelled by an ARM Cortex A8 1 GHz processor, which is a good inclusion for a sub-10K tablet and it runs on Android Gingerbread 2.3.4. However, we are unsure whether this tablet will get an ICS update. iBerry hasn't changed a lot on the interface front, the company has added to shortcuts to Apps, Gallery and the Berry. The company has kept it simple and straightforward. Access recent activities by long pressing the home button and view all homepages by long pressing the Apps icon on the screen. The UI wasn't sluggish and navigation was fine and smooth, but we did face some problems with the accelerometer, as the screen didn't auto rotate, while changing from horizontal to vertical and vice versa, and wouldn't work without restarting the tablet.

Smooth interface

We carried on the AnTuTu test, the device scored pretty well at 2986, which is higher than some of the recent tablets like MSI WindPad Enjoy 10 and Milagrow Tabtop that have been priced a little over 16,000 and 13,000, respectively. For the Linpack test, the iBerry tablet scored 16.088 MFLOPs on single thread and 14.98 MFLOPS on multi thread.