It seems Flipkart has taken another leaf out of Amazon's book and launched a 7-inch Android tablet. However unlike Amazon, the company hasn't gone to extent of forking Android to build a separate operating system like Fire OS. This launch follows an earlier report that the e-commerce major was planning to launch its own self-branded tablets. There were also talks that Flipkart would launch their own smartphones but Flipkart had denied it to Medianama. The device called Digiflip Pro XT712 is priced at Rs 9,999 and runs on now-dated Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, which was first introduced in February last year. It's not clear whether the company plans to roll out newer updates to the tablet in the future. Other specs includes a 1280 x 800p resolution display, a 1.3GHz quad core processor, a 1GB DDR3 RAM, 4GB internal memory and dual SIM support. Flipkart had launched the Digiflip brand in 2012 for selling accessories for cameras, computers and laptops among others, now that it has started selling its own devices, we wonder if this would further alienate several companies that would have preferred to sell on the marketplace. Note that several OEMs have already warned consumers against buying from marketplaces such as Flipkart and this move just might worsen its relationship with these companies. Comparison of the DigiFlip tablets with competing devices from Lenovo, HP and Samsung on its product pages is only going make matters worse for Flipkart. It's not clear if the company will make much profit from these devices, but do…
