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.

Your mobile bills to go up 30% in 2012!!

Mobile phone bills of consumers will rise 20-30% this year.

NEW DELH:Mobile Phone Bills of consumers will rise 20-30% this year, top executives of all leading operators said, as the country's debt-ridden telcos raise call tariffs to revive revenue growth and cut losses in the fiercely competitive sector.

The move follows the 20% increase last July, the first hike after operators slashed tariffs in 2008 as they chased new customers, but ended up eroding profits. It comes at a time telcos are staring at penalties and fines running into thousands of crores of rupees for a range of alleged violations.

Vodafone quietly raised tariffs of postpaid users in January by about 20% in Delhi and plans to extend this to other regions, with rivals set to follow suit this month. Telcos say tariffs for prepaid customers, who form 96% of users, will be raised after March.

An executive close to Bharti Airtel said a 20-30% rise in the next 12 months was the "minimum requirement for the industry to keep its head above water".

Even state-run BSNL, which did not raise rates last time, plans to increase tariffs, a top executive said.

An executive close to Reliance Comunications said the industry needed higher charges to service itsRs 275,000-crore debt. "Except the top three, all operators are losing Rs 800-1,000 crore per quarter," the executive said. Uninor Managing Director Sigve Brekke told ET recently if 'incumbents increase tariffs, he would be the first to follow', adding that customers could afford higher tariffs.

India added 400 million users in the last two years, but revenues crawled 10%, and average minutes of usage per customer fell from 465 in 2007 to 350.

"Inflation has been around 9% in the last two years. The industry paid Rs 70,000 crore for 3G spectrum. These services failed to take off and costs will eventually have to be passed on," said the executive of a leading GSM operator. He said earnings from every minute of traffic had plummeted to 40-45 paise from Rs 1 in 2007.

Samaresh Parida, director, Vodafone, said government levies had raised costs. "If the government keeps on trying to extract more from us, we are left with no alternative."