Aakash Tablet (Data Wind)
There is definitely no other touch pad tablet or computing device
anywhere near the price of Aakash tablet or Ubislate 7. It is a
new generation device which comes with attractive features.
This is the world's cheapest tablet pc. This tab is made
for the requirement of the users and especially
for student needs.
I look like it wouldn't work for me
It might be the world's cheapest tablet. But does Aakash Tablet, the government's much touted cheap computer, give you enough bang for your buck? With hardly any flab beyond that 7-inch screen, Something Indian university students, who get these tablets before everyone else, will find useful. You could buy one of these for about Rs. 2,500. The student version we got came loaded with applications. Everything from Facebook, to stuff that lets you create and edit documents. There are games, a calendar cum organiser, even advanced lessons in Physics – though they used up just a quarter of the screen and were hard to read. And we do have a few other gripes.
1. The screen is rather unresponsive. Sometimes I had to push the screen really hard to get a response.
2. It also heats up really fast. Which means in the heat and dust of India, it could face problems.
3. It connects to the internet only using Wi-Fi. Which means if a student is travelling or in a room that doesn't have Wi-Fi, he's stumped.
"It was a standard system on chip, which includes a microprocessor, controller, even controls for the audio and video. It is a standard Connexant chip which includes an ARM processor." says Prashanto K Roy, editor, Dataquest.
