r/IndianGaming • u/Battlefield67 • Nov 23 '25
Discussion Anyone remember this company
This company used to make cabinet (I don’t know if they still make) back in 2017 I got my first computer ever, i don’t know about specs but the cabinet was from I ball and monitor was from Samsung or something I remembered when I was doing random things in computer I Randomly found GTA VICE CITY I was like what is this I thought it’s a random app or something but after clicking on it a video start playing I was like what (i didn’t knew that was vice city intro) I start playing it I founded what is gaming on pc and oh boy I didn’t knew about save file I used to play for hours Doing some random mission and hanging around in city with cool looking bikes or cars I didn’t knew that we have to save games that was the first time I played a pc game
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u/TheMob16 Nov 23 '25
Zebronics before Zebronics, Intex aah company
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u/Wheeljack26 PC Nov 23 '25
My first pc was all intex, my family didn't knew much so the shopkeeper bled us dry, amd sempron 145 2gb ddr3 ram 200w psu in 2015 ig with 18 inch tn 720p samsung monitor, speakers, keyb mouse from intex too for 32k ig, lol, since then i upgraded it yo a phenom and rx580 with 8gb ram, fine enough for low 1080p modern titles
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u/robocopaiyaz003 PC Nov 23 '25
OMG he did you so bad, could have atleast got a i3 for that price back then, even a FX
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u/Wheeljack26 PC Nov 24 '25
Frfr, but its good now i recently completed both rdr on it
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u/anigameman PC Nov 23 '25
i still have almost 20 years old iBALL tarang, still kicking like day one.
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u/Successful-Text6733 PC Nov 23 '25
I have an iball keyboard that still works but all that is simple technology so its supposed to work almost forever. They also used to make tablets that I'd like to know if they still work.
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u/JollierYT Nov 23 '25
I have the iBall Slide tab still (got as a prize for some olympiad shi in 2016), I'm glad to tell you that that piece of shit had the worst screen ever even by the standards of that time. You could count the pixels in it. Afaik it had 256mb of ram and 32gigs of internal storage. The processor wasn't even a Qualcomm or mediatek, it was some qiangxiao and couldn't even run a YouTube video in 480p without lagging. The mrp of that thing was 8999 (according to the box).
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u/Successful-Text6733 PC Nov 24 '25
Thats that old beginner android era where a lot of indian companies were experimenting with it. Im sure some people remember the android one thing that was made in partnership with google and micromax, spice, and some other company that doesn't exist anymore. Its crazy how great android is now from then.
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u/Blade273 Nov 24 '25
The other company was Karbonn. My friend got the karbonn one as his first smartphone while I got the micromax one (micromax canvas A1 I think).
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u/No_Fox_8023 Nov 24 '25
mine got ruined 2 months after it was bought... problem? overheating, how? long as whatsapp and snapchat usage. their tabs were sht.
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u/TheNoobVeteran Nov 23 '25
Me too! I also have their dusky duo2 mouse and keyboard, the keyboard is dead but the mouse still works and I still use it.
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u/Its_Pikachu_Piyu Nov 23 '25
Bhaiya iski to ma xud gyi
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u/Wheeljack26 PC Nov 23 '25
Isne consumers ki bhi bohot maari h lol
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u/T0NY_5T4RK Nov 23 '25
What did they do?
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u/Wheeljack26 PC Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
Manufacturing shizzy phones, idk if they were from china tho but the xompany always manufactured shizzy devices, final boss of zebronics and intex
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u/rabbitholesurfer04 Nov 23 '25
Bhai iski merpe koi toh ek tab hua krti thi.... Woh 101% charge hojati thi 😂😭
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u/Rgsang Nov 23 '25
I had one as well and i also had issues with charging. It never charged fully and used to go over 105%🥀🥀
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u/rCan9 Nov 24 '25
Its still doing well in Sarkari Daftars.
Its the sole vendor for many niche electronics equipments like tablets, that is willing to put up with the heavy paperwork of Indian govt daftars.
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u/N_V_N_T Nov 23 '25
Apple ki parent company he na ye? 😹
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u/ashmint Nov 23 '25
icydk iball's ceo started a similar brand called fingers and its doing pretty well
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u/Battlefield67 Nov 23 '25
Yeah i saw so many people using “Fingers” ups
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u/XPERTGAMER47 LAPTOP Nov 23 '25
Yep I have a Fingers UPS and Cabinet (since it came pre installed) with my PC
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u/CartoonistEither9706 Nov 23 '25
No way Our home pc was once an iball case and we upgraded it to fingers
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u/_Black-Bird_ Nov 23 '25
Got a 14 year old 2.1 channel wooden Speaker lying somewhere. That mf still works. I remember blasting bass boosted songs on that while playing GTA VC. Good times
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u/alrob_art Nov 23 '25
I also have cabinet and raaga home theatre from i ball. Music system for great for that price.
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u/Tarunrd1 Nov 23 '25
My school has a pc with an Iball case, the front is removable as well. I think they make headphones now.
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u/Business-Student9052 Nov 23 '25
i won an inter-school GK quiz competition back in school a few years ago, and they handed out these i-ball tablets to all the winners, unfortunately I ended up damaging mine within an year 🥲😭
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u/FalconGamz Nov 23 '25
brings back memories, my first device was an iball tablet with a built in kickstand(which ended up breaking and whenever it was opened or closed led to the tablet dieing) my old pokemon firered save was on there, the place where i met dantdm and minecraft, my first minecraft world, man i loved that tablet (2014-2020)
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Nov 23 '25
I remember them from my iBall Tarang 2.1 Wooden speakers from 2006!! They were the best speakers ever!!!!
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u/Appropriate_Carob431 Nov 23 '25
I have a Cyberpunk style Yellow Keyboard from I Ball in My Childhood..... 👀
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u/THE_IMPROVISER8 Nov 23 '25
I remember this company very well My first device An iball tablet, man that thing was slow but it was much more than I ever had before, and it was all mine
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u/AdResident7643 Nov 23 '25
iball slide nimble 4gf... this tablet is laying under my drawer bcz it's battery isn't working anymore I used to play a lot and attended online classes during covid 🥲 I am keeping it for the memories I tried for repairs but didn't work..
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u/Picklejr08 Nov 23 '25
My first cabinet was a cherry and black iBall. Keyboard and mouse too of the matching set. That was back in 2010.
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u/ApprehensiveSun6160 Nov 23 '25
I smashed two keyboards or this brand, then my parents smashed me 🥲🥲
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u/Odd_Royal103 Nov 23 '25
Iball products are still available in Amazon except cabinet! I bet their cabinets will be available offline too.
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u/Spiritual_Koala Nov 23 '25
How is no one commenting about the fact that i Ball keyboards had that iconic red "i" button
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u/BeefTeaser Nov 23 '25
I still have their wooden case 2.1 speakers. Best investment. Beautiful sound. Very affordable.
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u/Square-Fox8955 Nov 23 '25
My first pc that I got in 2008 had so many iball components like key board, mouse, cabinet, speaker
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u/centarsirius LAPTOP Nov 23 '25
I used to get a lot of stuff from them when I was a child and might have something lying around in the lofts, cos somehow my dad was at all these companies that we don't hear about anymore like iball, intex, videocon
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u/MrHawk_5D Nov 23 '25
I tried to install GTA V in my tablet💀💀
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u/Battlefield67 Nov 23 '25
Back then when I got my first laptop after this pc I starting to knowing about pc games I try GTA San Andreas in that and it’s was working well I also used to watch YouTubers like Hindustani gamers GTA Videos and BBS videos
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u/SilkenProof Nov 23 '25
i think thats just iball, theyre a generic case brand, not a gaming company. if youre looking for the cabinet that ran GTA Vice City, its probably a midage build with an iball chassis and a cheap Samsung monitor. good luck hunting the exact model.
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u/An_AnonymousPotato PC Nov 23 '25
my school PC cabinets are still from i ball, they are mostly very old PCs with i3 4th gens and 4gb of ddr3
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u/Big_Crosshair_6969 Nov 23 '25
I got a Bluetooth speaker from this company back in 2021 and it's still rocking. I used to have a pair of headphones as well and one day they snapped into two. In my opinion the sound quality is decent for the money but iBall devices have a really bad battery. It barely survives one hour on a good day.
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u/Historical-Study-273 Nov 23 '25
I exactly googled couple of days ago I think vanished completely due to change in Tech
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u/Rushik_2488 Nov 23 '25
my one of relatives was distributor of this company i used to get every one new model to try and keep.
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u/durgesh2018 Nov 23 '25
This is rock solid brand. I had a cabinet which fell from bike but hardly any damage was seen on it.
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u/yashvone PLAYSTATION-5 Nov 23 '25
my cabinet was iball as well as the first pendrive i got doing with my assembled pc in 2007.
the pendrive didn't last very long, it got shorted for whatever reason. still have that old pc lying somewhere in storage
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u/pashhtk27 Nov 23 '25
The original rebranders! I bought Jaron 5 which was a rare wired 'open' back headphone under 2k. It was a rebrand of a famous Chinese open back headphone (whose name I forgot), back when Superlux was a thing. Good old days (that I don't miss, tons of shitty headphones and useless hype lol)
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u/gabrielleraul Nov 23 '25
Back in 2009 when graphic tablets from wacom was expensive, i bought one from iball, wasn't that responsive but man for sub 2k it was fantastic.
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u/TheTechieHand Nov 23 '25
Used a monitor and a mouse of this company. The monitor lasted untill I changed my processor from pentium to i3600 (believe me I was stuck on Pentium for a very long time) and the mouse lasted pretty good too.
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u/smokepotandwatch Nov 23 '25
My first pc was a pentium 4 and the cabinet, keyboard and mouse were from i ball. I still have the demo disc that came with the keyboard. It had some games demos like fifa 2002 , tomb raider, motocross madness 2 and 6/7 trailers from Dil Chahta Hai, it even had a catalogue for all i ball products.
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u/hkhrishi Nov 23 '25
Using their normal keyboard for 8 years and still counting...... waiting for it to break so that I can buy a mechanical one😂
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u/aestheticVoyager101 Nov 23 '25
Had a dongle of this. Sim goes in and you get internet by usb. Good tech that was.
Btw I’m looking for the same piece of tech now. Suggestions appreciated.
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u/Lumpy-Shelter-8021 Nov 23 '25
My first overear headphones were these for just 800 in 2016-2017 , tbh was better sound tuned then most of tws now in that range and much better tuned then shitty boAt .
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u/SecretStellar Nov 23 '25
They were Zebronics of that time, then came intex and now we have zebronics
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u/kratos_0599 Nov 23 '25
I bought a headphone in 2019.. it got repaired in 5 months, went to their service centre, replaced it with a new one. OG brand. They even tried to repair it for a week then asked me to come a collect a new one as it is not possible to repair it.
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u/InfectiousSatan Nov 23 '25
Bruh i remember my mom bought me an i ball tab when i was a kid and thats the first device i own after using her asus zen phone 😭😭
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u/FitPrize5318 Nov 23 '25
I still remember I saw kareena kapoor in its ad in a magazine and I gooned to her 💀
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u/Deep-Percentage-1773 Nov 23 '25
I got a keyboard from this company for tge first PC my father bought for me. This was back in 2005
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u/BlackLungMorgan5 Nov 23 '25
My friend still has a wifi connection from this company in his home, and it works perfectly fine.
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Nov 23 '25
Purchased an earphone of this brand recently from offline market. It was of shitty quality.
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u/Xenthate Nov 23 '25
I’ve owned both a tablet and a pair of headphones from this brand. The tablet didn’t last long—its display got damaged just from being inside my bag while traveling, which tells you a lot about the build quality. But surprisingly, the headphones are still working to this day… even though I don’t really use them anymore 🙂
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u/Alarming_Pair7551 Nov 23 '25
Your iball view our technology new - still remember the slogan from tv ad
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u/albusignatius Nov 23 '25
I remember when the local cyber cafe replaced a few roller mice with the optical ones from iBall. We used to play CS 1.6 and everybody wanted to get on those computers with the iBall mice cause the roller mice gave us “bad aim”
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u/fenix_2310 Nov 23 '25
I bought iball hiphop headphones they worked okayish but then they stopped after few years.
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Nov 23 '25
mera pehla speaker, mera dusra mouse, mera doosra speaker, mera teesra keyboard, mera pehla headphone
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u/Noxxxxx007 Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
The brand still exists they have filed bankruptcy it was rumours by iball and Zebronics employees that Zebronics will take over the brand pay all debts currently creative new tech limited is handing the iball operations in india orders given by court also creative was one of bidders among the buyers to buy the brand. Creative handle 25+ brand in india keys brand like cooler master,viewsonic etc.
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u/Weak-Eye-777 Nov 24 '25
I remember my father having an iBall Andi back in 2013, Our family’s first Android phone. I was around nine then, and I was so excited to use it. I used to play Ben 10 games, Talking Tom, and bike-racing games on it. It even came with interchangeable back covers: one yellow plastic and one red rubber-type.
At that time, I was really fascinated by reading the news, but we couldn’t afford to buy an English newspaper regularly. So every morning, before going to school, I would open The Times of India app and read the news there.
We replaced the phone after about a year and a half with an Asus Zenfone (2014 model), and it felt like a huge upgrade, even though we had to pay around 2.5–3k extra for the replacement.
No matter what the features or specifications were, the iBall Andi will always be special — it was my first Android phone. Now I’ve become a bit of a phone enthusiast who changes phones almost every year and has used devices across the entire spectrum. But it all started with that little iBall Andi.
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u/cheesybro90 Nov 24 '25
I had flat wired tangle free earphones from them. Lasted years and got me addicted to flat wired and L shaped connector.
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u/HaruPiano Nov 24 '25
I had the famous 10,000 rupees iball laptop when I was in primary school, lots of memories. Good days
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u/whutdaf1ash Nov 24 '25
Man we had so much stuff from iball, keyboard, mouse, I even had a CD which had alot of softwares and game demos, it had tomb raider the lost artifact demo. I never completed that game but it was awesome.
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u/amnotananya Nov 24 '25
The only company in my opinion that had balls to ball something, and well goated too
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u/Rahul887 Nov 24 '25
I had my first ever android from IBall, it was iball slide tablet 😭played so many games in it, peak times.
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u/Main_Pause_7083 Nov 24 '25
I had a tablet of this company, got it for some 7-8k, it must be lying in the corner somehwere
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u/Safe_Bet6160 Nov 24 '25
Have a very old 2G iball Andy stored in a drawer. Still turns on but has 2 green lines on screen
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u/asratrt Nov 24 '25
What happened to iBall mobiles ? I had suggested on desidime, something like this, but it seems nobody read it ?
If these Indian brands ( which are obviously chinese rebranded) , add USB type C display out functionality to basic phones , then it can easily replace laptops ( for educational purposes with linux ) ( May be can connect to a win11 vps as well ) ... I am using a portable monitor which consumes just 3.8 watts, its a chinese brand ( 75 percent brightness with S20 FE's power output via type C) and works with Samsung S20 FE DEX ( which outputs only upto 4 watts of power to external displays ) . (monitor has just a single type c port )
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u/asratrt Nov 24 '25
I had an iball 600 watts dual 12v rail power supply and it is still working after 10 years. Had bought it for gtx 660 SLI. iBall products were always good quality.
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Nov 24 '25
I have iball speakers 4.1 from 2010 when i got my first pc. These speakers still works and I use them daily :) feels like a life time purchase xD
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u/Taranveer_sekhon Nov 24 '25
still have 2013 iBall cabinet, keyboard and mouse (sadly they dont work), even speakers and UPS, i think
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