"Worlds cheapest tablet computer launched by India on wednesday for students at the inexpensive price of $35 and later to be sold in shops for cost $60"
In India most of the 1.2 billion people are underprivileged and they can not use products like Apple I pads, tablets are ahead of the reach even of many in the fast-developing middle class. The rich people can only to use the digital world; the poor and ordinary people have been barred. Aakash will conclude that digital split, says Kapil Sibal Minister of Telecoms and Education Department, India.
The Indian government is buying the initial units of the less weight touch-screen tablet, named Aakash that means SKY in Hindi for $50 each from a British company which is producing the web enabled devices in India. The new tablet device will support video conferencing technology; it has two USB ports and a three hour battery backup.
India has a position for making reasonably priced products that can be simple to use and strong enough to handle .Two years in enlargement, the book sized Aakash tablet may assist the government's aim to bring out the information technology in education, even though critics were uncertain of its mass appeal.
The Aakash is intended at university students for digital e learning through the government proposal that share out electronic books and courses.
The London based small company DataWind that developed the tablet with the IIT says Testing included running video for two hours in 48 degree Celsius temperatures to take off a northern Indian summer. The tablet has some many critics that all are welcomed the price of tablet as very cheap cost and that must be helpful for all people but most of them feels the device appeared very slow and the touch screen is not agile .
The executive editor of gadget reviewers BGR India Rajat Agrawal said “Because of the price there is a lot of excitement. People might use it at the start but if it is not user friendly they will give up within a week.
At the beginning the government plans to sell the tablet to students for 35$, afterwards they decided to sell it to people for 60$. People can get it in retail shops.CEO of DataWind Suneet Singh said the upcoming versions would contain a mobile phone facility and it must be more useful to the people in rural areas, Aakash also includes the Google Android operating system. We hope it could be more useful for students and middle class people.
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