14 DAY TRIAL // Bangalore-based company Lakshmi Access Communications Systems (LACS) has just announced the release of a new 7-inch tablet that will soon be available for purchase in India.
Following the announcement of the upcoming Magnum Mirchi 5 Gingerbread smartphone featuring a 5-inch display, LACS launches a new series of tablets for all price ranges.
Based on the Android platform, the newly announced tablets are available in 7, 8 and 10-inch variants, in four product categories, namely Pepper, Tamarind, Mirchi and Paprika.
Dubbed Pepper, the smaller of the tablets is expected to be available on the market this week for a suggested retail price of Rs. 6250 (about $135).
“The base price for the tablet is $99 but with taxes it goes up to Rs 6,250,” Lakshmi Access Communications Systems (LACS) MD Mahendra Kumar D. Jain said.
The tablet is powered by Android 2.2 (Froyo) and is equipped with an average 800 Mhz processor manufactured by VIA Technologies.
Pepper packs 4GB of internal memory, as well as microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 16GB), and supports 3G dongles for connectivity.
The company expects to sell around 3-400k tablets in the next 12 months through its easyEz showroom:
“We will set up our 10,000 showrooms in 12 months across country. This will be mix of directly owned and franchisee outlets. Our franchisee owner will not have to register for sales tax because we have central billing,” said Jain.
It is also worth mentioning that the company has teamed up with ICICI bank, HDFC bank, Citibank and Standard Chartered for their credit card users to provide these tablets on an EMI option.
“We are confident on quality of our product and are providing swap warranty which means that in case the problem in tablet is not solved over phone then you can change the product within warranty period from our outlets,” concluded Jain.