Croma launches Jelly Bean tablet for Rs 5,990

Croma, the electronic retailer from the house of Tatas, has launched its own brand of Tablet – the Croma Tablet. The tablet supports browsing the web, emails, photos, videos, music, games, e-books, etc.

Equipped with the latest Android version, Jelly Bean, the Croma tablet is loaded with a lot of features. The tablet also has a Gesture mode for visually-impaired users who can use the touch and swipe gestures in the tablet in combination with speech output.

Croma has launched its 7-inch Jelly Bean tablet

Speaking on the launch, Ajit Joshi, MD and CEO, Infiniti Retail, said, “We’re very excited to bring customers the first Croma Tablet that offers a wide range of exciting features, including a 7-inch capacitive multi touch screen, latest Android 4.1 (Jellybean operating system), expandable memory storage of up to 32 GB and Up to 7 days of standby time.”

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He added, “It has always been our effort to bring the best products at unbelievable prices and to strengthen our philosophy of helping customers buy, by bringing in premium quality and innovative products. We want our customers to be more productive than ever and to make the most of their time on the go.”

The tablet features a 7-inch capacitive multi touch screen and is powered by a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor. The tablet also has a 2-megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, and a 3,000mAh battery with a quoted standby time of seven days.

Croma has also announced special offers on purchase of Croma tablet. Purchase a Tata Photon+ at 50 percent discount for Rs 599, and a Caselogic Tab Sleeve at 20 percent discount for Rs 699.

Priced at Rs 5,990, the Croma tablet will available across all Croma outlets in India. Customers can also order the device through Croma’s e-store. For more information, please visit the official Croma website.

Last year, Croma had teamed up with Intel to launch an anti-theft service for laptops in India. The software essentially would be built into the laptop’s hardware. Once set up within, Infiniti adds that the software will plainly lock down the laptop if the user ends up misplacing it. Additionally, the software, it is learnt, would also create a secure data vault service on activation. A secure data vault, claims Infiniti, would encrypt private files of the user and store them.

The Anti-Theft service works on the premise of an intelligent hardware, which locks down a stolen laptop. Interestingly, the announcement states that the software will work on a stolen laptop, even if the thief ends up reimaging the hard drive, installing a new one, changing the boot order or staying away from connecting to any network. The aforementioned secure data vault created on the user’s hard drive would basically create a secure area for all the sensitive information the user has on his/her laptop. During a lock-down, this secure vault gets locked too and with it access to the secure data in the vault gets locked. This information, during a lock-down cannot be accessed even if someone attaches the hard drive into some other laptop, claims Infiniti Retail.