Finally the dream project is reality... The tablet is launches...Kapil Sibal kept his word and I cant believe it!!! Its the cheapest tablet in the whole world with its features...
Mr.Sibal said"There are milestones in life when we feel we have really achieved something great. This is one of those milestones."
These tablets will be subsidised by the government and given to Indian university students at just over Rs 1000. It's a five year old project that over the years has drawn scorn from international experts.
Additional Secretary HRD Ministry NK Sinha said, "They called us lunatics. They called it impossible. And I had to take the flak."
Unfortunately I too was one amoung lots who thought it was impossible...He proved us wrong and my sincere apologies :) ...
The new tablet is a touch screen machine. It has 256 MB RAM and 2 GB of internal storage. External drives add another 32 GB of storage space.
The tablet accepts two pen drives and offers about three hours of battery life. It runs on Google's Android Froyo operating system. But connects to the internet only through a wi-fi connection.
Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli said, "We've used a patented technolgy which moves the burden of processing from the device to our servers in the cloud. That helps us cut costs because we can use a cheaper, lower power processor."
These tablets will be subsidised by the government and given to Indian university students at just over Rs 1000. It's a five year old project that over the years has drawn scorn from international experts.
Additional Secretary HRD Ministry NK Sinha said, "They called us lunatics. They called it impossible. And I had to take the flak."
Unfortunately I too was one amoung lots who thought it was impossible...He proved us wrong and my sincere apologies :) ...
The new tablet is a touch screen machine. It has 256 MB RAM and 2 GB of internal storage. External drives add another 32 GB of storage space.
The tablet accepts two pen drives and offers about three hours of battery life. It runs on Google's Android Froyo operating system. But connects to the internet only through a wi-fi connection.
Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli said, "We've used a patented technolgy which moves the burden of processing from the device to our servers in the cloud. That helps us cut costs because we can use a cheaper, lower power processor."
