India launched Tablet PC with a cheap price of Rs 1700($35)

India launched a Tablet pc named as AAKASH in a price of Rs 1700($35) to make it awailable for each children and make them aware about e-learning.

Technical Specifications:

Operating system(OS): Android Linux
Battery: Internal rechargeable non-removable lithium-polymer battery
Input: Multi-touch resistive touchscreen display, headset controls

Other Features

* Rugged casing with a rubberized feel
* Wi-Fi enabled
* Fixed Ethernet ability
* Mini and full USB
* miniSD card slot
* Subscriber Identity Module (SIM card) slot
* Video out
* Headphone jack
* 2 GB of memory using memory card
* 2 Watts of power consumption with solar charging option
* Web browsing, video conferencing and word processing software
* Playback: AVCHD
* Multimedia I/O interfaces: DTV, IPTv, DTH

Its a tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen.

It often uses an onscreen virtual keyboard, a passive stylus pen, or a digital pen, rather than a physical keyboard. 

This cheapest computer- Aakash has been developed as a part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology and with the objective to link 25,000 colleges and 400 universities for an e-learning programme. This ultra low cost tablet has been developed by Indian Institute of Technology.

Indian Government has a plan to roll out 100,000 units as a pilot immediately after its launch today and with millions more students are expected to get this within next few months if all goes well. The long term plan is to make it available to every child in the school.

Aakash has been developed by a company named Datawind – a small British company.