A Bangalore-based company called Lakshmi Access Communication Systems (LACS), along with Bharti Enterprise’s Beetel Magiq and Reliance’s Tab 3G has claimed that they have all been set to introduce another Android-based tablet to the Indian customers. The best part of the announcement was that the device was priced as low as $99 (around 5,000 INR).
The LACS Company officials have accounted its features that the 7-inch tablet device, entitled as Magnum Pepper Tablet PC, runs Android 2.2 FroYo with a resistive touchscreen.
Besides all these features, the device also offered 800 MHz processor; also includes 256 MB of RAM, Wi-Fi connectivity, USB 2.0 port and a RJ45 LAN port for wired internet connectivity and the microSD card up to 32 GB, which had a front facing camera and 2GB of built-in storage, was the key feature of the device.
” Actually the base price for the tablet is USD 99 but with taxes it goes up to Rs 6,250” and we are going to set up our 10,000 showrooms in 12 months across country”, Mahendra Kumar D Jain, from Lakshmi Access Communications Systems (LACS) has reported.
“This is going to be mix of directly owned and franchised outlets. Our franchisee owner is not going to have to register for sales tax because we have central billing”, he further added.