India, Aug. 7 -- By launching its most affordable tablet yet in the Indian market, OnePlus is indicating two clear trends. First, Indians are buying tablets and increasingly so now, and the learnings from the OnePlus Go from a couple of years ago have been revised well. Equally, there are certain equalities with their more premium Android tabs, such as the OnePlus Pad 2 and the OnePlus Pad 3. Also gives OnePlus a little more in the arsenal against Xiaomi's very capable Redmi Pad line-up.

Speaking of which, the OnePlus Pad Lite's pricing which starts around Rs.15,999 for the 6GB memory and 128GB storage spec (a step up is 8GB+128GB and LTE for Rs.17,999), will compete with the Xiaomi Redmi Pad 2, which is priced Rs.13,999 onwards, and als...