Micromax Funbook: Ice Cream Sandwich tablet takes India by storm

April 14, 2012 | Filed under: Business | Posted by:

Micromax FunBook is a great Ice Cream Sandwich tablet. Deepak Mehrotra, the CEO of Micromax, says that the tablet, aimed at youngsters and for educational purposes, comes for a mere ` 6499. This makes Funbook, besides the other superlative labels, the most affordable tablet in India.

The Funbook is for educational purposes and has pretty decent specs as compared to its price and purpose. The Funbook runs on the latest OS the Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

It boasts a 7-inch 16:9 capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.. It also has a 0.3MP VGA front facing camera. Inside, the tablet is run by a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 processor. It comes with 512MB RAM and has 4GB of internal memory. This memory can be expanded up to 32GB with MicroSD. This slot takes care for youngsters who are movie buffs or hard gamers.

The Funbook is also good at providing good multimedia experience. It supports HD video playback with support of formats like MPEG2, 4, AVI, WMV, MOV and more. It also has on offer many entertainment apps with a collection 6000 songs, 4000 video clips.

The tablet has a USB port for connectivity through which a 3G USB Dongle can be used. It also supports Wi-Fi b/g, USB 2.0 and HDMI out for connectivity, data transfer and HDTV streaming. For parents worrying about abuse of the internet connection or the gaming optioin in the tablet, there is also a feature of relief. Parental control options take care of these. Parents can lock off sections of the tablet, like those of the entertainment and games.

A 2800 mAh battery makes the tablet run for 5 hours while browsing the net. This is decent enough as continuous studies of more than this time at a stretch is hardly possible.

Being majorly created for educational purpose, the tablet comes equipped with interactive study materials for students from class 1 to 12.

Micromax states that it spent more than a year getting the right educational content for the tab. In the tablet is available the ‘Vriti platform’ (a marketplace for educational content) through an exclusive partnership. The platform makes available educational content from books for schools students and even preparatory materials for competitive exams.

The irresistible tablet will hit 1,00,000 retail stores across 50 cities in India soon. No definite date of release has so far been announced.

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  • sudhakar

    DONT GO FOR MICROMAX. A FRAUD COMPANY. THE COMPANY DOES NOT REPSPOND TO QUERIES OR COMPLAINTS I LOST 5000 RUPEES AND YET NO RESPONSE FROM COMPANY. AVOID MICROMAX.

  • Rishabh

    I have booked a Micromax Funbook Tablet worth Rs 6500 through Indiatimes. I hope I get it . Will keep the site updated with my experience.

  • rajeev thakur

    Super….tab

  • Pratik Trived

    Great budget tab…

    all apps run smoothly and Icecream sandwich is great…

    For those who don’t like micromax product, this one is developed and manufactured in India… so i hope it would be better than all cheap chinese stuff…

  • PGA Joseph

    I feel we should keep our patience. I too have booked a FUN BOOK and was supposed to be shipped today. The company, Snap Deal has informed me on behalf of the Micromax that the shipping will be delayed for 3 days. We have to take things positively. Meanwhile the management of Micromax also should make sure that the promises are met otherwise there can be unsatisfactory customers like Mr. Sudhakar and the prospective customers will fly away…. Hope you keep this in mind.

  • Rana Zaidi

    आदरणीय H R D मंत्री

    महोदय आपसे निवेदन है कि केबल टीवी या डिश के किसी माध्यम से घरों में पहुचने वाले विभिन्न चैनल विज्ञापन से भरे होने के बावजूद भी उपभोगताओ को इसका मासिक शुल्क देना पड़ रहा है जो चैनलों के बढ़ने या घटने के अनुसार उनका शुल्क बढता-घटता रहता है| जैसा कि आपको ज्ञात है कि यह सभी चैनल विज्ञापनों हेतु एक लम्बी राशि वसूल रहे हैं और हम उन्हें हर प्रोग्रामो व समाचारों के बीच देखने को मजबूर हैं .
    आपसे अनुरोध है कि प्रत्येक कनेक्शन हेतु एक न्यूनतम राशि निर्धारित कि जाये जो केबल लाइन या प्रसारण कि देख -रेख के नाम से हो ठीक उसी प्रकार जैसे सरकार ने रेडियो का प्रसारण टैक्स फ्री बना दिया और आज प्रत्येक वर्ग उसका नि:शुल्क आनंद ले रहा हैं.
    धन्यवाद

    निवेदक
    सय्यद नादिर अली

  • Rana Zaidi

    Dear sir

    Here is the hazard of lots of channels and serials shown on television in which most of the shows have been untolerable for viewers their producers are only meant of making money by stretching the useless scenes and baseless messages which are only destroying the time and psychology of public
    For ex.
    ‘Uttaran’ telecasting on channel ..‘ Colors ‘, ‘ Na Aana Iss Des Laado’ telecasting on channel ..‘ Colors ‘, Bade ache lagte hai telecasting on Channel ….. ‘ Sony’ . etc
    Please mind it and take the suitable steps against these nonsense shows by fixing the maximum duration of every serials
    Thanks by
    Rana Zaidi

  • Setanjan Roy

    Wow. Gr8 tab. Evry1 wid doubts watch the review on digit. M gna gt it 1nce price goes near 5k mybe in diwali