UK company Datawind has been offering dirt cheap Android tablets for a few years, particularly in India where the company has partnered with the government to provide Aakash tablets for students. Now Datawind is bringing its cheap Android tablets to the US. You can buy an UbiSlate 7Ci from the company for just $37.99. As […]
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Aakash 2 Android tablet hits India for as low as $20 per unit
The Indian government and UK company DataWind have launched a second-generation Aakash tablet aimed at students in India. DataWind will sell the Aakash 2 for about $40, but the Indian government will offer a partially subsidized version to students for about $20. DataWind’s new tablet features a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel capacitive touchscreen […]
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India’s $35 Aakash tablet: It’s remarkable it ever got made
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 […]
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Datawind launches two new UbiSlate tablets for India
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 […]
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Datawind to offer Android 4.0 update for the Aakash 2 tablet
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 […]
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Next-gen Aakash Tablet to hit India in April for $40
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 […]
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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 […]
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$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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]