Intex iTab Review

Features and Performance

Interface

The iTab is powered by a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor with 512 MB of RAM and 8 gigs of internal storage. Intex has put a custom ROM atop the stock Gingerbread user interface and have pretty much made it look like Ice Cream Sandwich for tablets. It's quick, smooth and extremely user friendly. We're mentioning user friendly because Gingerbread on the tablets that we reviewed in the past was definitely not up to the mark. The iTab though, is the exception out here. It has a well customizable home screen, an ICS-esque menu and a fairly quick interface. Next up, synthetic benchmarks. 

The interface

Linpack gave us a single thread score of 16.326 points and a multi thread score of 15.107, slightly higher than what we received on the Funbook. AnTuTu gave us a score of 2262 placing the iTab below the Galaxy S and the Nexus S. Quadrant on the other hand, gave it a score of 1502 placing the iTab above the Nexus S. 

The synthetic benchmarks

Media

The media interface of the iTab is plain boring, it’s the stock Gingerbread version. Once you’re over that bit though, there’s a lot of usability that this section boasts of. Audio drivers are great and due to that, media playback via headphones is brilliant. There’s a bunch of preset equalizers to adjust your music according to your tastes. Speakers are loud enough for personal viewing. This, along with the Ainol Novo 7 Paladin, was one of the few tablets in this price range that managed to play FLAC content with the default media player. 

Media options

The iTab played 1080p content seamlessly out of the box. WMV, AVI, MOV formats are supported as well. Though FLV and MKV weren’t playing out of the box, 720p MKV videos played smoothly on third party media applications. Though the viewing angles aren’t the best, the iTab makes for a great personal media player.