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Aakash Android tablet hits India for $60 or less

For the past year Indian officials have been promising to launch a $35 Android tablet aimed at students. Today it’s finally available — and while the tablet is a little more expensive than promised, it’s still dirt cheap for a mobile computing device. Production of the tablet was outsourced to British company DataWind, makers of the UbiSurfer line of mobile devices. But…

October 5th, 2011, 8:52 am by Brad Linder | 4 Comments

$250 DataWind UbiSurfer netbook with included 3G plan

I’ve been keeping an eye on DataWind’s UbiSurfer netbooks for the past few years. The company offers cheap mini-laptops in the UK bundled with limited mobile internet service. You pay one fee up front for the netbook and you can also go online for about 30 hours per month for no extra fee. If you need more time, you can…

October 1st, 2010, 6:04 pm by Brad Linder | 4 Comments

New DataWind UbiSurfer swaps Linux for Windows CE

The DataWind Ubisurfer is an unusual mini-laptop. The selling point isn’t so much that the Ubisurfer is a cheap, portable computer — it’s that it’s a cheap portable computer that comes with a free mobile internet connection. Customers in the UK can pick one up for just under £160 (about $243) and get up to 30 hours per month of…

April 7th, 2010, 3:57 pm by Brad Linder | 9 Comments

Datawind Ubisurfer: $199 buys you a 7 inch netbook + 30 hours/month mobile broadband

I just got a chance to catch up with the folks at Datawind, and while they’re a bit behind schedule, they do still plan to bring the Ubisurfer netbook to the US. The latest target date is Q2, 2010, (as opposed to October, 2009). If Datawind actually manages to launch the Ubisurfer soon, it could poke a hole in the…

January 5th, 2010, 9:54 pm by Brad Linder | 8 Comments

Datawind Ubisurfer: 7 inch netbook with GPRS and WiFi

The Datawind Ubisurfer isn’t exactly the most impressive looking netbok. It’s got a small 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, a rather larger bezel around the screen, and a keyboard with an awkwardly placed right-shift key. But there is one thing that makes this little netbook stand out. When you pony up £159, or about $259 US for the…

July 10th, 2009, 7:42 am by Brad Linder | 12 Comments

Datawind to launch a PocketSurfer netbook

UK company Datawind makes a handheld internet device called the PocketSurfer with a 640 x 240 pixel display and a GPRS modem for always available internet connections. What makes the company’s business model unique is that users can surf for up to 20 hours per month for free for the first year. An additional year of service will cost £40,…

November 12th, 2008, 2:15 pm by Brad Linder | 6 Comments