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Indian students pose with the supercheap 'Aakash' Tablet computers which they received during its launch in New Delhi, India in October. Pic: AP.

Neverending story: India’s $35 Aakash tablet continues to hog the limelight

By Sriram Vadlamani Tue, Feb 07, 2012 2:22AM UTC View Comments

The Aakash tablet, the $35 wonder-tablet and the elixir of India’s education pains, never ceases to amaze me. The first revision of the tablet turned out to be cheap, ineffective, late, in short-supply and too hard to use. In other words, it was an electronic brick. If you thought that’s that, then you would be so...

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India’s cheapest tablet turns out to be an electronic brick

By Sriram Vadlamani Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:05PM UTC View Comments

Aakash tablet, the cheapest tablet in the world, previously supposed to be an educational tool for millions of students, could soon be junked. Trust me that sentence wasn’t easy to write. A game of ping pong going on between Datawind (the maker of the tablet) and the Indian government. Datawind has delivered only 30000 tablets...

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Aakash tablet: Overhyped, overbooked and delayed

By Sriram Vadlamani Wed, Jan 04, 2012 11:36AM UTC View Comments

Remember the world’s cheapest tablet to be coming out of some factory in India? Yes, the Aakash tablet. We have got some news about it. It is making waves if we go by the mainstream media. There was news that quite a few governments have been making frantic calls to Kapil Sibal on how can...

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Putting some perspective on the world’s cheapest ‘tablet’

By Sriram Vadlamani Fri, Oct 21, 2011 2:30PM UTC View Comments

Indian students pose with the supercheap 'Aakash' Tablet computers which they received during its launch in New Delhi, India. Pic: AP.

If you are reading this, then the world’s cheapest tablet, Aakash, isn’t meant for you. You were not the target audience when Aakash was conceived, designed and executed. The target audience was different. Aakash was supposed to be an entry point in India for students to get access to the Internet. The critics around the...

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India’s digital divide

By Asia Sentinel Wed, Oct 19, 2011 11:51AM UTC View Comments

Indian students pose with the supercheap 'Aakash' Tablet computers which they received during its launch in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Pic: AP.

Will a US$35 ‘tablet for the poor’ bring computing power to the masses? Not likely, writes Asia Sentinel’s Cyril Pereira The Minister for Communication & Information Technology, Kapil Sibal, announced with much pomp on 5th October, the breakthrough pricing of a tablet computer at US$35 for “millions of India’s schoolchildren” to become digitally connected and...

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