Inexpensive Tablets
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One week after Amazon released the Kindle Fire, the first tablet computer to present a serious threat to Apple's iPad, another historic tablet was released. On the other side of the world on October 5, India launched the world's cheapest tablet, Aakash, priced at just $35 for students with government subsidies or $60 in stores, which the government hopes will reduce the digital divide between rich and poor.
If that price — roughly one-tenth the cost of the cheapest iPad — doesn't sound accessible enough, the Indian government is distributing the first 100,000 units of the Android-powered tablet to college students for free, Reuters reports. "The rich have access to the digital world, the poor and ordinary have been excluded. Aakash will end that digital divide," said Kapil Sibal, India's minister of communications and information technology.
The tablet was developed by DataWind, a small British company, with researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology. In addition to fitting the price to the budget of middle class Indians, the device was tested playing two hours of video at 118 degrees Fahrenheit to replicate the oppressive heat of northern India's summers.
Aakash Tablet – Worlds Cheapest 35$ Android Tablet
The Aakash is a low-cost tablet computer with a 7-inch touch screen, ARM 11 processor and 256 MB RAM running under the Android 2.2 operating system. It has two universal serial bus (USB) ports and delivers high definition (HD) quality video. For applications, the Aakash will have access to Getjar, an independent market, rather than the Android Market.
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