India's New $35 Tablet to Get Upgrades Ahead of Launch
More bang for the buck.
India's $35 tablet caused quite the fuss when it was announced two years ago and now the little slate is in the news again, this time because of upgrades it's expected to get in the next few weeks. According to IDG (via ComputerWorld), the 7-inch budget tablet will get Android 4.0 as well as a hardware upgrade before the second version launches in the next few weeks.
The original Aakash tablet boasted a 7-inch display as well as an ARM 11 processor, 256MB or RAM, 2GB of storage (up to 32GB of external storage), Wi-Fi, USB connectivity and Android 2.2. The new Aakash 2 will supposedly pack a 7-inch capacitive multitouch screen and a faster single-core, 800MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 256MB of RAM and 2GB of internal storage. The tablet is expected to received further hardware upgrades as component prices drop (there's talk of dual-core A9 CPUs by year's end) and IDG cites Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli as saying the device will ship with Android 2.3 but will be upgraded to Android 4.0 six to eight weeks after launch.
According to IDG, Tuli said the cost of the tablet is $45 but that that's being brought down to $35 thanks to subsidies from the Indian government, which has budgeted for 5 million units for the fiscal year started April 1.

You find most of the Grads who have just been hired by the local govt. to collect data from the people house to house going around with these. And you know what, they still have One tab to cater for over a million people..... It is the laugh of the century if I was to see it from the eIndia POV. Where you can buy tea off the internet to a Bugatti , we still lack any sort of infrastructure to actually make these so called fancy gadgets useful at the grass root level.
Even after collecting all the data, they do end up printing it on paper for the different departments of the govt. since most of them still work on the file system.
My personal experience with the Dept. of Telecom , New Delhi , has been and I'd like to translate and quote the Director General Telecom's words here
" Sir, you may keep harping about us going all hi-tech and dishing out all the e-services that we do to the people, but, sadly, in this department, we still function only on printed paper. We have PC's to work on and networks to handle the data, but, when it come's to working or functioning of the department, we strictly believe only in paper prints and hard copies. You can complete all the formalities online, but, they will not be held valid until you provide a printed copy of everything to us."
And believe me, the time it takes to get one piece of paper to move from one level to another is like going around the world on a camel and still being faster.
So all the crap about it being a 35 to 45 $ tab is really ..... dunno....like a bollywood movie.... nothing real all in the head.
It's not. It has had competition that beats it in performance for a while, but it's competition hasn't been given quite as much attention.
To be fair, this tablet was supposed to have 2.2, not 4.0 in it. That they changed their minds at practically the last minute kinda makes a difference. Besides, most of the Android phones never got updated as much and as often as they should be. If you truly care, there's always the option of doing it yourself.
Yeah tell us how she makes that money.
On her webcam she has every hole filled with a huge 10' c_ck and drinks glasses of c_m like they are protein shakes. Then when she is done she says "Thank you may I please have another, yum yum!"
Like I said, it has better hardware than my android which is a fully usable phone (I think that the CPUs are about the same, but the Transform has less RAM and storage). For $35, this is better than a $150-200 smart phone. It would be very difficult to beat the value for the money that you'd get with this tablet. Besides, if I can use my phone without a problem, then this tablet should be fine. I do web browsing, Google Docs and more on it (having a small keyboard on the phone instead of using the fairly small 3.5" or 3.7" touch screen is a blessing for this stuff that a tablet with a much larger 7" screen doesn't need as much) and it can handle it, so I fail to see what the problem with this tablet is considering that overall, it's even better and is so cheap that it's hard to find an excuse to not get it unless you know for a fact that you have no interest in tablets, or at least not in a 7" tablet.
Even then, $35 is the kind of price in which you can just get it anyway and it won't hurt your finances to play around with. Even if it cost more like $50 or $60, it would still be a steal.
You cannot see graduates holding this tablet coz u r not from IIT..Secondly,first wave of the tablet was not so good and the launch was recalled..This upgraded version has so much in it..Though it cannot stand in front of very high end tabs like that of apple but is more than sufficient for education purpose..Bloody traitor..
You cannot see graduates holding this tablet coz u r not from IIT..Secondly,first wave of the tablet was not so good and the launch was recalled..This upgraded version has so much in it..Though it cannot stand in front of very high end tabs like that of apple but is more than sufficient for education purpose..Bloody traitor..