The search for world's cheapest PC was started by India in the year 2005 and now, in 2011 India designs the world's most cheapest tablet computer-AAKASH worth Rs 1100.
Aakash was earlier named as Sakshat and was designed by N K Sinha an IITian and was manufactured in Datawind owned by Rajnath Singh Tuli and Suneeth Singh Tuli who were specialised in manufacturing tablet computers.
N K Sinha came up with an idea of developing a lap worth 10 dollars for which, it was given green signal by government of India by sacking the proposal of Massachussets Inistitute of Technology
of developing a lap worth 100 dollars. Sinha with the help of IIT'ians developed the primary design of aakash, in 2009, 170 students from IIT Rajasthan together developed the prototype of the tablet.
was given to Datawind. This tablet will be made available to the students for a price around 1100 to 1400 after subsidizing the price upto 50% in different states, whereas the market price will be Rs 3000, the tablet will be marketted by the end of this year.Later, by collecting the feedback from 500 students the new modified version of aakash will be released for less than 10 dollars that is less than 500 rupees.
Aakash was earlier named as Sakshat and was designed by N K Sinha an IITian and was manufactured in Datawind owned by Rajnath Singh Tuli and Suneeth Singh Tuli who were specialised in manufacturing tablet computers.
of developing a lap worth 100 dollars. Sinha with the help of IIT'ians developed the primary design of aakash, in 2009, 170 students from IIT Rajasthan together developed the prototype of the tablet.
The eyecatching features of aakash are:
- Aakash is powered by Google Android 2.2 OS
- Processor - 366MHz supporting graphics accelerator and high definition HD video.
- Memory - 256MB RAM
- Storage - 2GB Internal Flash memory (upto 32GB expandable external memory)
- Input devices - 7inch resistance touch screen, external USB keyboard
- Display - 7inch screen with resolutions of 800*480 pixels
- Audio - 3.5 Audio jack in and 3.5 audio jack out
- connectivity - WiFi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g, Bluetooth cellular-2G unsubsidised version only (3G and 4G connectivity not provided)
- Battery backup -3 hours
The manufacturing rights for 1lakh tablets
was given to Datawind. This tablet will be made available to the students for a price around 1100 to 1400 after subsidizing the price upto 50% in different states, whereas the market price will be Rs 3000, the tablet will be marketted by the end of this year.Later, by collecting the feedback from 500 students the new modified version of aakash will be released for less than 10 dollars that is less than 500 rupees.
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