A $35 Android tablet
October 6, 2011
The Indian government is buying 100,000 Android tablets named “Aakash” (Hindi for “Sky”), build in India by UK company DataWind, and priced at $35 (for students, $60 for others), says ZDNet India IT blog. It will be available in November.
Hardware:
- 7” Resistive touch screen (800×480)
- Processor: 366 Mhz with Graphics accelerator and HD Video processor
- Memory (RAM): 256MB RAM
- Storage (Internal): 2GB Flash
- microSD card slot
- 1 USB port
- 3.5mm Audio in & out
- WiFi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g
- Up to 180 minutes on battery
Software:
- Android 2.2 Froyo
- Document formats supported: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP
- PDF viewer, Text editor
- Supported audio formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA
- Supported video formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV
DataWind has plans for a $10 tablet, says ZDNet’s Hardware 2.0 blog.