Indian government's venture to create the cheapest tablet for students has finally been released. The much anticipated tablet is being manufactured by DataWind Ltd..
Government aims to provide 10000 tablets to students of India. Cost of each tablet is announced as Rs.2250 and is said to decrease in the coming days when Indian Government places an order for mass production of this. DataWind's Aakash is only for students and the price is subsidized. DataWind plans to release another version of Aakash, called UbiSlate which will be priced slightly higher than Aakash. DataWind claims to deliver UbiSlate by the end of November.
Ever since the announcement of 35$ Tablet, the processor speed was kept undisclosed. The processor speed turned out to be only 366Mhz. Considering the price of the tablet, this must not be disappointing as it is a value for money tablet. Here is a list of specifications to wrap up.
Aakash features -
a 7" display with resolution 800 x 480 pixels
a 366Mhz Processor
256 MB of RAM
2GB of internal
expandable up to 32 GB through microSD slot
1 standard USB 2.0 Port
Wifi Capability
Battery that lasts 3 hours and
runs Android 2.2 Froyo
Evidently, the tablet will not support HD graphics but the product is quite good for what it is aimed at. May be a disappointment to few people, but this is what you get for what you want to pay.
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INR Rupee symbol to get a place on keyboard
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After coining the new symbol for INR symbol, India faced problems embodying the new symbol on the digital media, like on websites. Thought it was always known that India would soon incorporate the INR symbol into the ASCII list, but it is now official. The Press information bureau of India has released a statement which says,
This is a good news to all the bloggers and writers over the web because, very soon they are going to be able to type the rupee symbol directly from the keyboard instead of messy workarounds. The keyboards are going to show the rupee symbol on the keyboards just close to the dollar symbol soon.
[/caption]After coining the new symbol for INR symbol, India faced problems embodying the new symbol on the digital media, like on websites. Thought it was always known that India would soon incorporate the INR symbol into the ASCII list, but it is now official. The Press information bureau of India has released a statement which says,
In order to promote the new symbol of Rupee i.e. the same has been encoded in Unicode Standard and National Standard ISCII. The new symbol has also been placed on the keyboard and by pressing “Alt Gr” + “4” keys together it can be typed. Detailed information is hosted on TDIL Centre (http://tdil-dc.in/) for the benefit of the users at large.
This is a good news to all the bloggers and writers over the web because, very soon they are going to be able to type the rupee symbol directly from the keyboard instead of messy workarounds. The keyboards are going to show the rupee symbol on the keyboards just close to the dollar symbol soon.
