Posted by : Cyber Freak
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
President Pranab Mukherjee today unveiled the much-awaited ultra low-cost Aakash 2 tablet PC at an event in New Delhi. Designed, developed and manufactured by DataWind, the Aakash tablet, also dubbed as the Aakash 2.0, will be available to students at a subsdised price of Rs. 1,130. DataWind is supplying the Aakash tablet to the Indian government at Rs. 2,263 per unit.
In the first phase, DataWind is going to supply 100,000 units of Aakash 2 to IIT Bombay, which intends to distribute them to Engineering University and College students in the country.
Specifications of the Aakash 2 tablet
are as follows: 7-inch multi-touch 4-point capacitive display with 800 x
480 pixel resolution, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS, 512 MB of RAM,
Cortex A8 1 GHz processor, 4GB built-in storage, microSD card slot that
supports storage up to 32 GB, micro USB, Wi-Fi b/g/n and a 3,000 mAh
battery. The included accessories are wall charger, USB Adapter, USB
cable and USB Hub (4port).
The commercial version of the Aakash 2 unit is branded as the UbiSlate 7Ci, and is available for purchase on DataWind’s website. According to reports, the government has
shortlisted 244 engineering colleges in the country that will work as
remote centres for “Aakash in Education” programme, coordinated by
IIT-Mumbai under the National Mission on Education through ICT
(NME-ICT). The programme will cover all engineering colleges in due
course.
The Subrao Nilekani Chair Professor at
IIT Bombay, Dr. Deepak B. Phatak, heads the project at IIT Bombay with
the support of C-DAC. Professor Phatak says “I'm not only confident,
but sure that Aakash 2.0 is here to stay.”
NME-ICT Director, N.K.Sinha adds, “We
envision all 220 million students across India to be enabled by low cost
Aakash devices in the coming years.”
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- Indian Government Unveils Aakash 2 Tablet PC
Aakash 2 Tablet boosts a 7 inches (18cm) screen and is powered by the latest Android software.processing speed of 800 MHz and 800×480 pixels. It has a memory of 512MB memory as well, it boosts a SD card slot and a USB port.
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