India enters the Slate wars
Olive Telecom’s $500 Olive Pad has recently entered the market. The Olive Pad is basically a licensed version of an Android. Compared with Apple’s Ipad the Olive Pad is lacking in marketable punch with regards to looks. But judging by the target market which is, of course Indians, this may not matter so much because Olive Pad has a SIM slot. The Slim slot would enable users to access wireless data at the same time enabling them to communicate with other people through phone calls. The standard Google apps and market connections are also offered features for this gadget. The touch screen Android is a 7-inch tablet that has a 800 x 480 resolution capacity, WiFi, 512MB of internal memory, an SD card slot, audio jack, 3 megapixel camera, and a micro USB socket.
The Olive Pad may not be a front runner in the ever growing tablet wars but it may and can be a success in its own country. Olive Telecom also proves that the domino effect for the race to easier, better, accessible technology which was started by Asian contemporaries will continue to grow and maybe dominate. Let’s just hope that Olive Telecom would come up with international customer friendly promotional videos in the future.
