HCL Launches Android ICS Tablet “My Edu” Starting At Rs 7,999

HCL Infosystems, has launched three new tablets in India, focusing on the education segment, with a starting price of Rs 7,999, reports The Mobile Indian. My Edu Tab U1, the first tablet from HCL, is targeted towards mass market and is the cheapest tablet from HCL starting at Rs 7,999. The other two tablets; My Edu Tab K12 and My Edu Tab HE are tablets specially designed for students.


The ‘My Edu Tab K12′ comes with pre-installed educational apps and NCERT books for free with a memory card for students up to 12th Std and retails for Rs  11,499. The ‘My Edu Tab HE’ comes with pre-installed apps and multimedia content for  professional and technical skills for college students and retails at Rs 9,999. Both the tablets also come with support for cloud storage.



Specifications

All the tablets: My Edu Tab U1, My Edu Tab K12, and My Edu Tab HE comes with similar hardware specifications. HCL’s tablets sports a 7-inch Capacitive screen with 800*480 pixel resolution, 1GHz Arm Cortex A8 processor processor and runs on the latest version of Google’s Android operating system Ice Cream Sandwich.  It also comes with 512MB RAM, 4GB of internal memory, 0.3 Megapixel front facing camera, USB support, a mini USB port and a micro SD card slot. It with 3600mAh battery to support the powerful 1GHz processor and Android OS which with normal usage might last up to 4-5 hours.

3G connectivity

Although the tablets do not come with support for 3G out of the box customers can enjoy 3G connectivity via USB modem. There are a tons of exciting packages from Vodafone, Reliance, Airtel, BSNL and MTNL.

Apps

None of the HCL’s latest tablet support Google Play (Previously Android Market) but comes with support for  HCL Me App Store from where users can download applications. HCL claims that HCL Me App Store features more than 10,000 apps. All three tablets come with pre-installed apps like BookMyShow, Clear Trip, Hungama, Money Control and more.

HCL entered the tablets market late last year with HCL Me X1 Tab which again didn’t come with support for Android Market. Although Android Market could be separately installed if customers could get hold of the installer file for the same which becomes too technical for an average Joe. The same is bound to happen with HCL’s newer tablets.

Competition

Currently, there are plenty of tablets in the market targeted towards Indian mass market from Reliance’s CDMA Tab (Our take), Beetel Magiq, Wishtel, iBerry, and governments own Aakash tablet. While other tablets in the market may not come with pre-installed educational packages the only way for HCL’s new offerings to succeed is if they directly market them to schools and colleges.

The only competition to HCL’s educational tablets comes from AcrossWorld’s educational tablet ATab which retails at just about Rs 5,000 and has tie ups with educational institutions  and universities like Carmel Public School, Gaujrala; Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Institute of Technology, Rourkela; Shikhar Shishu Sadan Convent School, Dhampur; and, Gandhinagar Public School, Moradabad with a dozen schools and colleges from cities like Delhi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Rourkela and Gaujarala indicating interest in the ATab.

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Micromax P-300 ICS tablet spotted on Homeshop18, priced at Rs. 7,999

Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) tablets have just started entering the market. All the major tablet and smartphone manufacturers have new devices being launched in the Indian market. Handset manufacturer, Micromax was expected to launch a tablet in the Indian market and it appears that it’s not too far from the final launch date now. The tablet, being called the P-300 has already made an appearance on Homeshop18’s site. The P-300 is being priced at Rs.7,999 - i.e. lower than most tablets being sold in the market. The standard features of the tablet are known, but there’s no mention of the processor on the site.

Micromax ICS tablet

The tablet has a 7-inch capacitive multitouch touchscreen, which is good to hear as some of the cheaper tablets in the past have included resistive touchscreens which haven’t offered the best possible experience. The resolution is unknown, but it’s safe to assume that it would be somewhere in the 854x480 range - similar to other tablets priced under the Rs.10,000 bracket. There’s 512 MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage and Homeshop18 mentions external storage as 32GB. All popular media formats ranging from the commonly used AVI video format to the FLAC lossless audio formats are supported. The integrated camera isn’t too great - it uses a 0.3MP sensor, which should be useful for video chatting.

Full HD 1080p video rendering is possible as well and support for a 3G dongle is present, so you can easily get Internet access on-the-go. Few details on the battery are present, but Micromax claims that the P-300 can handle four hours of browsing. The product isn’t ready to ship just yet, but interested parties can add their details to be notified when the product is available. Micromax is said to be offering a year’s worth of warranty. Clearly, ICS is the future as far as Android tablets are concerned. Honeycomb (Android 3.0) was the platform of choice for most of the high-end tablets, but with ICS, it looks like tablets across the price ranges will be able to handle it.


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