Micromax Launches ‘FunBook’ Android 4.0 ICS Tablet For Rs. 6499

Further intensifying the price war in the fast-growing tablet PC market, India’s own Mobile Phone maker Micromax today achieved another milestone by launching Android 4.0 ICS based low cost Tablet FunBook for Rs. 6499.

Micromax Funbook Tab sports a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 processor, Dual Mali-400 2D/3D GPU, a 7-inch Capacitive Touch Screen which has a resolution of 800×480 pixels and comes with multi-touch, Pinch to Zoom features. It has 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, WiFi,  a front facing 0.3 megapixel camera, HDMI port, a full USB port with 3G dongle support, a mini USB port,a micro SD card slot and 2800 mAh Battery.

Micromax also offering interactive course material for CBSE ranging from class 1 till class 12th on a 4GB MicroSD card for Rs. 799. So learning would be fun with the animated videos, diagrams and pictorial representation where applicable.

Besides all these, Micromax Funbook user can get access to the 600 movies, 6000 songs and 400 Video clips and the latest games, apps or even one can watch favorite show on Live TV Apps.It also comes with Document reader apps, text editor, Adobe Flash, PDF, Youtube and more.

The Tab can be purchased on Nimbuzz and Micromax’s On-line shopping portal ‘nCarry’. If you want to buy the Tab right now Click Here -:  Micromax Funbook Online Booking.

Aakash Tablet Breaks Apple iPad’s Record [Next Generation Tablet]

‎"Aakash" the next generation tablet is being planned to distrubed under various schemes for a price of Rs.1500
R you excited? will u go for it?

‎"Aakash" might be a record breaking stuff in tablet sales of Indian market! World’s cheapest tablet, Aakash had 14 lakh orders in 14 days from the day online booking was started at Rs 2,500 per piece on Ncarry.com. This is definitely something the folks at Apple computers might have a hard time believing. Datawind, a UK based vendor is ready to cater the unexpected demand and is ready to establish three new factories in Cochin, Noida and Hyderabad in the first half of 2012. Datawind currently has a factory at Hyderabad and its vendor, Quad makes the LCD panel for tablet.

CEO from Datawind said that the response from users was simply unexpected and the company will be able to supply about 70,000-75,000 units per day once the factories are established by April. Bookings were open for 30,000 tablets on the website and they were purchased in a flash. Also, pre-sales bookings for Aakash tablet were about 400,000 in number which surpassed entire tablet market of India which was 250,00-300,000 tablets till last year. The bookings crossed iPad tablets of all series. Datawind also has plans of putting online the details of next version of Aakash, Aakash Ubislate-7 and make it available for buying. While the technical developments are pretty much less compared to the first one, it is beneficial in terms of internet connectivity. Whatever, Aakash has definitely made history not only in its price but also in its booking by drawing people!

Dell plans to launch its first tablet computer in late 2012

LAS VEGAS: Dell Inc intends to launch its first consumer tablet computer in late 2012, marking its entry into a hotly contested and increasingly crowded arena that has already claimed arch-foe Hewlett Packard. 

The once-dominant corporation founded by Michael Dell has seen a growing crop of tablets and smartphones entice consumers away from PCs. But Dell learned from the hastiness of some of its peers and understands better now how consumers value the “ecosystem” of a tablet as much as the hardware, chief commercial officer Steve Felice said.

The Texas company, which has slipped steadily in the global PC sales rankings, had dipped its toe in the waters with an enterprise-focused, “Streak” tablet. It now plans a bigger push into the consumer arena, Felice told Reuters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

While rivals from HP to Research in Motion introduced a spate of gadgets with much fanfare and went toe-to-toe with the still-dominant Apple Inc iPad, Dell kept a low profile with good reason, Felice said.

“We have been taking our time. The general failure of everyone that’s tried to introduce a tablet outside of Apple” suggested Dell made a prudent choice, Felice said in an interview. “You will see us enter this market in a bigger way toward the end of the year. So we are not really deemphasizing it, we are really being very careful how we enter it.

“When you are talking about PC, people are more focused on the hardware itself. When you are talking about the tablet or the smartphone, people are interested in the overall environment its operating in,” he added. “As we have matured in this, we are spending a lot more time in the overall ecosystem.”

CARDS CLOSE TO VEST

Felice was coy about which non-Apple operating system Dell might adopt, Microsoft Corp’s upcoming Windows 8 or Google Inc’s popular Android, saying both were viable options.

But Felice did say he liked the feel of Microsoft’s touch-enabled operating system, which would be well-timed when it emerges later this year in light of recent high-profile product failures, from HP’s now-defunct TouchPad to RIM’s Playbook.

“There hasn’t been a lot of advancement and it’s given Microsoft a good window to come into the market with Windows 8. I like the touch Windows 8 feature,” said Felice, who previously headed Dell’s large enterprise division. “We like Windows 8 but we continue to develop with Android as well. We are still going to be more choice-driven, based on the feedback we get from customers.”

Dell’s maiden foray into consumer tablets comes as the iPad and other well-received gadgets such as Samsung’s Galaxy eat into PC sales. Some industry executives maintain that tablets do not cannibalize to the extent imagined.

On Monday, Michael Dell said at an event in the southern Indian city of Bangalore that tablets were an “additional device.” Others warn that clunky laptops are coming increasingly under threat as tablets grow more powerful and take on a plethora of tasks from Web surfing to sophisticated graphics and video manipulation.

“When we introduce the products, they will be consumer products, but we are going to make sure that they are very compatible with the business marketplace, which we don’t think Apple has addressed,” Felice said. “There’s lot of use in the commercial sector that requires security and more compatibility, and I think we will be able to address that in a better way.”