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发帖数: 75 | 1 India has launched what it says is the world's cheapest touch-screen tablet
computer, priced at just $35 (?23).
Costing a fraction of Apple's iPad, the subsidised Aakash is aimed at
students.
It supports web browsing and video conferencing, has a three-hour battery
life and two USB ports, but questions remain over how it will perform.
Officials hope the computer will give digital access to students in small
towns and villages across India, which lags behind its rivals in
connectivity.
At the launch in the Indian capital, Delhi, Human Resource Development
Minister Kapil Sibal handed out 500 Aakash (meaning sky) tablets to students
who will trial them.
He said the government planned to buy 100,000 of the tablets. It hopes to
distribute 10 million of the devices to students over the next few years.
"The rich have access to the digital world, the poor and ordinary have been
excluded. Aakash will end that digital divide," Mr Sibal said.
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The thing with cheap tablets is most of them turn out to be unusable”
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The Aakash has been developed by UK-based company DataWind and Indian
Institute of Technology (Rajasthan).
It is due to be assembled in India, at DataWind's new production centre in
the southern city of Hyderabad.
"Our goal was to break the price barrier for computing and internet access,"
DataWind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli said.
"We've created a product that will finally bring affordable computing and
internet access to the masses."
The company says it will also offer a commercial version of the tablet,
called UbiSlate. It is expected to hit the shelves later this year,
retailing for about $60.
Usability questions
Mr Sibal says the device will enhance learning in India.
Experts say it does have the potential to make a huge difference to the
country's education, particularly in rural areas where schools and students
do not have access to libraries and up-to-date information.
Indian Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal (R) and Junior
HRD Minister D. Purandeswari (L) pose with Aakash tablet after its launch in
Delhi on October 5, 2011. Mr Sibal (right) hopes the tablet will end the '
digital divide'
But critics say it is too early to say how the Aakash will be received as
most cheap tablets in the past have turned out to be painfully slow.
"The thing with cheap tablets is most of them turn out to be unusable,"
Rajat Agrawal of technology reviewers BGR India told Reuters news agency.
"They don't have a very good touch screen, and they are usually very slow."
Critics also point out that an earlier cheap laptop plan by the same
ministry came to nothing.
In 2009, it announced plans for a laptop priced as low as $10, raising
eyebrows and triggering worldwide media interest.
But there was disappointment after the "Sakshat" turned out to be a
prototype of a hand-held device, with an unspecified price tag, that never
materialised. | k******y
发帖数: 1407 | 2 开头一个 现在完成时 吓了我一跳
往下看了一两段就看到熟悉的 will 和 plan 了
tablet
【在 s***g 的大作中提到】
: India has launched what it says is the world's cheapest touch-screen tablet
: computer, priced at just $35 (?23).
: Costing a fraction of Apple's iPad, the subsidised Aakash is aimed at
: students.
: It supports web browsing and video conferencing, has a three-hour battery
: life and two USB ports, but questions remain over how it will perform.
: Officials hope the computer will give digital access to students in small
: towns and villages across India, which lags behind its rivals in
: connectivity.
: At the launch in the Indian capital, Delhi, Human Resource Development
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发帖数: 114 | | g*****g
发帖数: 34805 | 4 国产山寨能做到多少钱？感觉屏幕再烂，硬件加装配也是几百的成本。
【在 l**a 的大作中提到】
: 说是最终价格66.看到这个配置，国产山寨笑了。
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发帖数: 2580 | 5 硬件可以从电子垃圾里回收
【在 g*****g 的大作中提到】
: 国产山寨能做到多少钱？感觉屏幕再烂，硬件加装配也是几百的成本。
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