Micromax's new tablet-Funbook

As we know Mircomax introduced an affordable latest tablet on Tuesday, a 7-inch touch screen with latest Android ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) based tablet in just Rs. 6499/-.The most awaited tablet from Micromax mobile company has paved its way to serve our country. Micromax has also jumped into Tablet market after introducing its very first tablet called MICROMAX FUNBOOK.This is a very cool device for students and we can call it future of education. 

This tablet is targeted towards youth (especially k-12 students), because this device is specially designed for students. Micromax is giving a strong competition to other companies by its new tablet. There are also more tablets in the market recently launched HCL. There are also giant brands like iball, hp, spice and many other companies in the tablet market but Mircromax funbook gives competition from its very latest features and configuration. Micromax’s funbook includes installed apps which can use as study material as well you can access video & audio in many different formats.

Latest ICS (Android Ice Cream Sandwich) doesn’t need the front buttons and this makes a tablet cool and attractive but Micromax's device was not originally intended to run on Android 4.0 and the software upgrade was thought of later taking note of the interest in the latest version of Google's mobile operating system. Sometimes it is a bit awkward to find two sets of buttons, one on the screen and other on the body to perform exactly the same functions. But the advantage of having the hard buttons is that they are easier to access than their tiny on-screen buttons. But Micromax should have given adding touch buttons a thought, which could have been an added feature for the customer to buy it.

You can use Wi-Fi and USB dongle to surf the net. The 2800 mAh battery gives, according to Micromax, a browsing time of about 5 hours. I had been using the device intermittently (on WiFi) for this review and it ran out of battery in a little more than 4 hours.There are lots of apps already installed. 1000 movies installed by micromax.

Here you can have a look at the specifications of this device
1.22GHz Cortex A8 Processor- Quite good

Dual Mali - 400 2D/3 GPU - Okay

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich- Great

Display: (7-inch) capacitive- Good

Camera: 0.3 Fronts VGA- Okay for video calling

Memory: 4GB internal; Expandable 32GB micro SD - Satisfactory

512MB RAM- Okay

Media support: 1080p video; MPEG2/4, AVI, WMV, MOV (also supports MKV, FLV, MP3)- Good

Sensors: Gravity, accelerometer- Satisfactory

Battery: 2800mAh; 5 hours of browsing time-Okay

Connectivity: 3G dongle support via USB; HDMI out; Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g; USB 2.0- Good

Colors available for this device
This device is available in two colors: 

•        Suave Silver, and
•     Brilliant Black.

Why to buy?
The plus points for this tablet are:

•       Price: - pricing is so affordable for any one it just 6499/- INR
•      Views: - it is stylish and attractive 
•      Weight: - its light weight and slip tablet
•      Power: - you can browse 5hr.

Why not to buy?
The minus points for funbook are:

• Charger: - There is no specific standard charger for charging the tablet and its seem very odd.
• It’s hard to carry some looking chains equipment for charging the tablet.
• Usb port: - there is no micro usb port for using and its essential requirement of any tablet 
• Battery life 
• Music:- music is also not so good in heads-free and speakers

The Funbook will be made available through 100,000 retail outlets across 50 cities in India.

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