World’s cheapest tablet – Aakash to be sold for $35. Specifications released.

Posted by on Oct 7, 2011 in Mobile | 1 comment

Finally the much awaited tablet for the Indian masses – Aakash will be available in retail stores by the end of November for Rs. 2,999 ($60). However, around 10 million government subsidised tablets would be sold to students at only Rs. 1750 ($35).

The technical specifications of the tablet:
OS – Android 2.2 froyo
Display – 7 inch touchscreen, 800×480 resolution
Weight – 350gms
Processor – 366 MHz by Connexant
Ram – 256 MB
Storage – 2GB inbuilt with expandable memory upto 32GB
Battery – 2100 mAh
Connectivity – WiFi, 3G, GPRS, two USB ports

More detailed review can be found at TheMobileIndian

  • uk student.

    the 366MHz cpu isn’t clocked that high, but considering this is a student device, I hope the purpose of its inclusion instead of a faster cpu was so that you have to code efficiently rather than for monetary reasons.

    first off, i’m not an old git – im a 16yo student in the UK, disgusted by the qualifications in IT. why would i need to learn visual basic and all this microsoft rubbish? it wont help me in a job, all shortcuts using vb are of course temporary. its a real hack and they shouldnt’ teach it!
    the computing world nowadays is far to lazy- and all coding taught is always very high level. its buggy, inefficient and generally just crap.
    think of the energy savings if every computer ran code that consumed less CPU time because it was efficient. cpu would have more time to be in lower clock or even a sleep mode, rather than executing needlessly long routines.

    do yourselves a favour, go buy a PIC or an Atmel chip, and program it in raw machine code, or at the very least the appropriate Assembler. raw computation.