Recently the company responsible for designing India’s $35 Aakash tablet announced plans to launch a second generation device. It will have a faster processor, and longer battery life, but it will still be designed to meet the primary goal: getting low cost computing devices into the hands of Indian students. The first Aakash tablet had a 366 MHz ARM 11…
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The UK-based company that designed the Aakash $35 Android tablet that’s available in India has introduced two new dirt cheap models for the Indian Market. Neither the UbiSlate 7+ or UbiSlate 7C are exactly premium devices. They have slow processors, little RAM, and run older versions of Android. But they’re designed to be dirt cheap — and they even offer…
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The second-generation Aakash tablet is set to ship to Indian students in a few weeks. The Aakash is a low-cost Android tablet designed to provide students with access to the internet and to educational apps. It sells for about $35. UK-based Datawind is the company producing the tablets for the Indian government. According to PC World, Datawind will ship the…
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The Aakash Tablet is an inexpensive Android tablet aimed at students in India. The Indian government spearheaded the project and partnered with UK-based DataWind to make a tablet that could sell for as little as $35. Now the second version of the tablet is almost ready to launch, and while it still has all the hallmarks of a ridiculously cheap…
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The Indian government introduced a $35 tablet in 2011, aimed at students in the rapidly developing nation. Recently a slightly more advanced version of the Aakash tablet went on sale for about $45, and people have been signing up for pre-orders like nobody’s business. But it looks like the Aakash tablet from DataWind isn’t the only game in town. A…
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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…
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Think that new $199 Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is cheap? Indian officials plan to launch a tablet for students on October 5th that will be available for just $35. We’ve been hearing stories about the cheap Indian tablet since last summer — and it’s not the country’s first foray into cheap computers. Officials promised a $10 laptop way back in…
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Asus isn’t the only company with a new low-cost netbook powered by MeeGo Linux and a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor. Samsung also recently unveiled a MeeGo netbook called the Samsung N100. But while Asus plans to sell the Eee PC X101 in the US and other developed nations as well as developing markets, the only country I’m aware…
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Samsung is set to launch a low-cost netbook in India. It’s called the Samsung N100 and in order to keep the price down, Samsung is using a low power 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor and MeeGo Linux operating system. It will sell for about 12,290 rupees, which is about $275 US. If the specs sound familiar, that’s because the…
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I know this will come as a huge shock to everyone who’s been following the story closely, but it looks like the Indian government is having a hard time keeping its promise to deliver a $35 tablet computer. According to The Economic Times of India, the vendor tapped to build the Sakshat tablet failed to hold up its end of…
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An Indian company called iDuple has just announced plans to build an internet tablet. The concept combines a couple of ideas that have been kicking around for a couple of years. On their own, they’ve all seemed like rather bad ideas, but when you combine them… well, iDuple might actually be on to something here. Maybe. Here’s the pitch. The…
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If you’ve been waiting with baited breath to find out whether India would actually be able to produce a Google Android powered tablet for students for just $35 per unit, it looks like you won’t have to wait all that much longer. LiveMint reports that the Indian government is working with HCL Technologies to produce the $35 Sakshat tablet starting…
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