Do not  be taken in by the name - the iBall Slide is not a slider phone, but a touch-screen tablet competing for the top slot in the affordable tablets category. It has a 7.0-inch WVGA capacitive multitouch screen and boasts of connectivity options not normally seen  in this price segment - an  HDMI port, USB on the go port, and a port for connecting a 3G data card. All these ports alongs with a microSD card slot and a 3.5mm jack are on the bottom panel when the tab is placed in portrait mode.

The front panel has just one hardware key, aptly marked as 'i', which mainly works as the Home key. Rather strangely, there are two power keys - a button and a slideing one placed between all the ports.

The Slide runs  on Android  2.3, the latest version of Android, and thanks to its 1GHz processor, runs it pretty well. However the UI is just plain vanilla Android. There are five homescreen  panels  that can  be  customised  and one can add folders, widgets, shortcuts, etc., to them. On the right in the landscape  mode  lies  three  touch  key  to access Settings,  Menu  and  Browser.