Akai launches Android-based Smart Box Tablet for Rs. 6,590

Japanese consumer electronics firm Akai launched a 'Smart Box', which allows users to surf Internet on their television sets, at a price of Rs. 6,590 in the country.The company, which is targeting revenues of Rs. 250 crore this fiscal, expects sales of one lakh devices in the next 3-4 months.

"Our Smart box is set to change the way people watch television in India. TVs, irrespective of whether it's a colour TV or LCDs and LEDs, are compatible with the device and using Smart Box can be converted into a smart television," says Pranay Dhabhai, Akai's Managing Director.

Funbook Talk tablet with voice calling and Android 4.0 Launched by Micromax

Micromax continues to add to its Funbook collection of tablets with its latest budget Android offering called Funbook Talk priced at Rs. 7,249.

A fifth tablet in the Funbook series, the Funbook Talk comes pre loaded with Android 4.0 and sports a 7-inch capacitive TFT LCD display with 800x480 pixel resolution. The tablet is powered by a 1GHz processor with 512MB RAM.

Improved Android apps support getting BlackBerry PlayBook 2.1

Of lately most news about RIM focuses only on its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones. So the news of a software update comes in as a welcome change.

The company has rolled out PlayBook OS version 2.1 update for its PlayBook tablet. This new update is free and is being pushed over-the-air. Consumer can also manually check for software update on their PlayBook tablet and install the same.