Few days ago India's Telecomm. And I.T. minister Kapil Sibbal announced cheapest tablet of India which has been developed by IIT team and aims at providing internet connectivity to all the students across the nation.
The 7 inch Tablet powered by android 2.2 version looks impressive and has been priced very low. It has been priced 
2500-3000/- and it is available at 50 % subsidy for students .
2500-3000/- and it is available at 50 % subsidy for students .The price is unbelievable. The tablet is developed by Datawind Ltd.
Lets see the configuration of this impressive tablet :-
* Operating system - Andriod 2.2
* Battery : -2100 mAh Li-Po battery [OK...last up to 3 hrs.]
* 366 MHz processor [a little low]
* Storage : -2 GB-32 GB microSD slot
* 256 MB DDR2 RAM
* 350 g
* Height : 7.50 in
Width : 4.67 in
* Wifi connectivity 802.11 a/b/g
* Gprs
* Multitouch resistive touchscreen
* 2 Standard USB ports
* 3.5mm jack
OTHER FEATURES :-
Supported Document formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODPPDF viewer, Text editor
- Supported audio formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA
- Supported video formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV
Updated (7th jan 2012) :
Recently an Updated and advanced version of the Aakash tablet is launched that is known as Ubislate 7+ version of aakash tablet. It has overcomed some limitatons of older versions.Whats new in Ubislate 7 +(Upgraded version of Aakash Tablet):
1. Powered by Andriod 2.3 version. Earlier one comes with Andriod 2.2 version.2. Battery of 3200 mAh. Thus increasing the battery running time.
3. Powered by Cortex A8 processor of 700 Mhz.
4. Price increased by Rs 499 It is available for Rs 2999/-.
5.Network :-Wifi and GPRS (using SIM card).
Till now 1.4 million or 14 lakhs units of aakash tablet has been sold out, while the Upgraded version will be available from the end of January .We will notify you the booking link of aakash tablet. Subscribe to our feeds to stay updated.
Update 17 th November , 2012
Well after Aakash 1 which was not liked much by Indian Students and Consumers , recently Aakash 2 was launched that has 7 inch capacitive Touch with 512 MB RAM nad 1 Ghz Processor , 4GB internal memory and runs on Android 4.0. So there is significant improvement in Performance.
Price of aakash 2 is Rs 4300 for Wi-fi version while Rs 5000 for Wi-Fi and GPRS version. It is available at Subsidized Price of Rs 1100 to Indian Universities and School Students.
We will soon Review this Product , The Big Question is Whether it will reach the Sky or not?
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