Thursday 6 October 2011

India launches cheapest TABLET

Aakash - Indias cheapest tablet - UBISlate DataWind

India launched what it dubbed the world's cheapest tablet computer Wednesday, to be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 and later in shops for about $60.

Most of India's 1.2 billion people are poor and products such as Apple Inc's iPad are beyond the reach even of many in the fast-growing middle class.
Below are the main features of Aakash:
  • It runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo)
  • 366MHz Connexant CPU with Graphics accelerator and HD Video processor
  • 7-inch resistive touchscreen with 800×480 resolution
  • It has got 2 USB ports, has 256MB of RAM and 32GB internal memory, expandable via microSD
  • It has 2100mAh battery which can reportedly last for 2-3 hours
  • It comes with a 12-month replacement warranty
  • It comes with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.
  • For connectivity to internet, it has got a 802.11 a/b/g WiFi chip and a GPRS modem
  • It supports formats like DOC, DOCX, PDF and PPTX etc.
  • Supported audio formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA
  • Supported video formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV
  • It weighs 350 grams
  • Price – $35 (Rs 1800) with govt. subsidies; $60 (Rs 2900) commercially in stores


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