World's Cheapest Tablet @ $35 (Rs.1750) For Students Released By Indian Government!

Do you remember Sakshat, a $35 Tablet to be released by Indian Government? Well, Union Ministry for Human Resource Development today officially unveiled Aakash Android tablet, which is also known as $35 tablet. Previously, Government named this tablet as "Sakshat" and it was manufactured by HCL. But the tablet released today by government is not that tablet, its Aakash by Datawind. Its specifactions are also changed with its name. This tablet has been developed and manufactured by Datawind in association with IIT Rajasthan and NME-ICT.



Aakash is a totally different tablet from which was shown last year and turned out to be a Chinese device. After several hiccups, Indian Government went back to the drawing board and has come out with a totally new device, which indeed is an indigenous product. Several features like GPRS, 2G SIM Support and Camera have been dumped in this student version to bring it in the $35 price tag. Government is buying 100,000 units on a pilot basis from the manufacturer Datawind for a price of INR2250 ($45), which will be given to post-secondary students at a lower price. Government is planning to price it at INR 1750($35) for students. Datawind have confirmed a commercial version of this tablet which will be available with 2G SIM Support, GPRS enabled along with other feature/specs mentioned below, it will be available starting from November, its named "Ubislate" and it will be priced Rs.2,999. Uninek have announced to make apps for this tablet.

Features/Full Specs of Aakash Tablet

Features:

• Aakash will come with
• 366MHz processor, 7 inch
• resistive display, 256MB
• RAM, 2GB internal memory,
• 2 USB 2.0 ports, and WiFi(Note that student version of this tablet will not have sim support, but still internet acess will be available via Wifi), HD Video Support!, Full sized-USB port&Micro-SD slot:
• Expand memory to 32GB, Use any ordinary pen-
• drive(Even plug-in a 3G dongle!), 150,000 apps and education apps available.

Specifications:

Hardware:

• Processor: 366 Mhz, Connexant with Graphics
• accelerator and HD Video
• processor
• Memory (RAM): 256MB
• ROM/Internal Storage : 2GB Flash
• External Storage: 2GB to 32GB MicroSD Card Supported
• Peripherals (USB2.0 ports,number): 1 Standard USB port
• Audio out: 3.5mm jack
• Audio in: 3.5mm jack
• Display and Resolution: 7inch resistive touchscreen display with 800x480 pixel resolution
• Connectivity and Networking: WiFi (GPRS and 2G SIM support will be available in Commercial version of this tablet only and are not available in this student version)
• 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.