The world’s cheapest android tablet worth 3000 INR is launched in India.The tablet is named as Aakash (means Sky),earlier it was planed to release by the name Sakshat .The MHRD says that tablet will be given to students at the subsidized price of $35 (Rs 1720) to spread digital access across the country.
Don’t confuse with the name Ubislate as it’s the name given by the company who is manufacturing it.
Aakash has been designed, developed, and manufactured by DataWind, a British company, in collaboration with IIT Rajasthan under the HRD Ministry's National Mission on Education through Information & Communication Technology (NME-ICT). The HRD Ministry is buying 100,000 tablets from DataWind for Rs 2250 per unit inclusive of taxes and freight charges.
Specifications:
- Unbeatable Price:Its just in Rs. 3000 ,moreover the internet charges will be around Rs 98 per month.
- High Quality Internet experience:We can connect using GPRS or WIFI ,it has a internal modem to provide the facility of GPRS .Have many inbuilt applications like Facebook,Twitter etc.
- Multimedia:We can experience HD quality video,watch movies etc.
- Various Applications with Android 2.2:The tablet have Android 2.2 operating system so we can have a lot of games,productive software's like office suite and more than 150,000 apps
- USB and Micro SD slot:We can expand memory up to 32 GB,use any ordinary pen drive or if we want to use 3G we can simply plug in. And above all it’s a phone.
Configuration:
Hardware:
- Processor: Conexant with Graphics accelerator and HD Video processor
- Memory (RAM): 256MB RAM / Storage (Internal): 2GB Flash
- Storage (External): 2GB to 32GB Supported
- Peripherals (USB2.0 ports, number): 2 Standard USB port
- Audio out: 3.5mm jack / Audio in: 3.5mm jack
- Display and Resolution: 7” display with 800x480 pixel resolution
- Input Devices: Resistive touch screen
- Connectivity and Networking: GPRS and Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g
- Power and Battery: Up to 180 minutes on battery. AC adapter 200-240 volt range.
Software:
- OS: Android 2.2
- Document Rendering
- Supported Document formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP
- PDF viewer, Text editor
Multimedia and Image Display :
- Image viewer supported formats: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF
- Supported audio formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA
- Supported video formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV
Communication and Internet :
- Web browser - Standards Compliance: xHTML 1.1 compliant, JavaScript 1.8 compliant
- Separate application for online YouTube video
- Safety and other standards compliance
CE certification / RoHS certification:
Other: Additional Web Browser: UbiSurfer-Browser with compression/acceleration and IE8 rendering
Accessories:They also providing full set of accessories options like a car charger,external antenna and a keyboard case.
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