Tuesday 17 April 2012

Micromax FunBook VS HCL MeTab U1

As we all knows both HCL MeTab U1 and Micromax Funbook are focused on education. Here we are comparing Micromax FunBook with HCL MeTab U1.

Hardware

Both tablets funbook and MeTab U1 have almost the same software and hardware. Both are having 800 x 480 pixel resolutions with 7 inch touch screens and based on Android 4.0.3 version. The difference between both is Micromax Funbook does offer access to Google Play app, where MeTab doesn't offer Play apps. It means that Micromax Funbook user can download lakhs of apps on Android's app store.

Micromax Funbook has the 1.2 GHz processor and MeTab has a slower 1 GHz processor that powers the respective devises. Both devices are using 512 MB DDR3 RAM,

There is no difference in a front facing VGA camera as both are having the same size camera and none of this having rear camera. Micromax Funbook is score lesser than HCL MeTab as its has 2800 mAp battery, where MeTab has a 3600 mAh battery.



Educational content

Micromax and HCL both are differ in their content approach. Micromax offers a Vriti educational content and 500 different course materials from 30 content publishers.

HCL has varying content plans for its different MeTab tablets :
• MeTab U1 doesn't have any content
• The MeTab K12 offers course material from KG to 12th (changed Rs 3,500 extra for the content as compare to MeTab U1)
• The higher education version, form which we can access some content on the cloud is offered at Rs 10,000 (change 2,000 extra for content and cloud access).

Price:
Micromax FunBook: Rs 6,500
HCL MeTab U1: Rs 7,999

Note

We didn’t tested these tablets, but article return on on-going impressions of repected product.

In terms of functionality and price Micromax Funbook is a better as it has the same hardware as HCL; we don't think our opinion is going to change even after testing the hardware.