On Tuesday January 17 Government said that, The demand for the world's extremely inexpensive Aakash tablets has gone up.So on behalf of this governemt said it will need an extra 22 crore units of the Aakash tablet.
As per the HRD Ministry, N K Sinha, At the beginning, we bought around one lakh Aakash tablets so now again we are in need of more 22 crore Aakash tablets in the approaching years.
HRD Ministry, N K Sinha said that, In order to manufacture Aakash tablets in large numbers,So one more time a fresh tenders will be released and other companies along with Canadian company Datawind will also get a chance.
Last year, DataWind, the Canadian company that is manufacturing Aakash, delayed delivery of the tablet to 2012.
A spokesperson of Datawind said, "People who have booked the Aakash tablet online will get its delivery in January.” The spokesperson, however, didn't cite any reason for the delay. Earlier the company had said that the Rs 2,500 Aakash tablet will be delivered within seven days of online booking.
DataWind initially said that the Aakash tablet will be available to students only through colleges and schools. However, later it started online booking of Aakash for everyone including students. Besides, DataWind have given only 10,000 Aakash tablets to the government for distribution in schools and colleges of the initial 1 lakh proposed.
There are two versions of the tablet. The original Aakash tablet comes with much lower specifications and is priced at Rs 2,500. Its cousin — named as UbiSlate, is comparatively powerful and is priced at Rs 2,999.
UbiSlate will be powered by Android 2.3 and will have a resistive touchscreen, Cortex A8-700 MHz processor and graphics accelerator HD video processor, 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of internal memory. Other specifications are - one standard USB port, 3.5 mm audio jack, a 7 inch display with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, resistive touchscreen, GPRS and WiFi support.
In addition to that Aakash tablet heading with 7 inch screen and has operating system of Android 2.2,with WiFi,Arm11 — 366 Mhz processor,2100 battery,And also this tablet supports for 3G modem.Well theres a price difference among the Aakash tablet and UbiSlate, As the commercially accessible product will contain a cellular modem,And ofcourse it will allocate for web access in what ever place there is a cellular connectivity, and also to work as mobile phone.Particularly the 2GB internet connection for both the Aakash tablets and UbiSlate tablets across mobile networks will be priced at Rs 99. (TS)
