The name may confuse you, but the Swipe Halo Fone is a 3G voice calling tablet priced at Rs 6999. It’s no handset with its 6.5-inch screen, but a smartphone-tablet hybrid at best. And we have a name for these type of gadgets – phablets. For some reason, the company likes to peg its non-MTV products at just below Rs 7000.
It almost seems like Swipe has nothing new to offer with each release and just gets by with the simple strategy of launching a variety of low-cost, nondescript tablets. Someone might buy them by mistake maybe. The Halo Fone is being sold through Flipkart and sports a distinctively refined look as compared to this or that Halo series member.
Main features
This Swipe device’s main selling point is its voice calling capability and hence the ‘Fone’ in its moniker. It also has two SIM slots and a 2800mAh battery which can survive only 6 hours of talk time. It has a 0.3MP camera on the front, in case you want to make video calls. And then there’s a 2MP lens on the back panel too.
Pasted across the tablet’s face is a 6.5-inch display delivering 800 x 480p resolution visuals. The device thankfully runs on Android Jelly Bean at least and it embeds a 1.3GHz dual core processor. You can look forward to 512MB of RAM, 4GB internal memory and the option to add in up to 32GB of extra space here.
Swipe Halo Fone specifications run-through:
– 6.5-inch 800 x 480p touchscreen
– Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 OS
– 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 dual core chip
– 512MB of RAM
– 4GB onboard storage
– 32GB microSD card support
– Dual SIM slots
– 2MP and 0.3MP cameras
– 2800mAh battery
– 6 hours talk time
Here’s the Flipkart page where you’ll be able to find the Swipe Halo Fone.