The world’s cheapest Android tablet with some pretty decent configuration is now available for Purchase in India at www.aakashtablet.com!
There has been a lot of news about this tablet that costs just $35 lately and now, Kapil Sibal has made this tablet available for us to purchase. The tablet comes in two variants. One is the WiFi only model and the other is WiFi + 3G model. The WiFi only models are now available for purchase immediately and costs just Rs. 2, 500. The WiFi + 3G model, which is named as UbiSlate 7 is yet to get released, but is available for pre-orders.
The tablets will be available only ONLINE and will not be available via retailers. The website promises to ship the tablet within One Week and has the flexible Cash-on-Delivery option too, which works really well in India. The product is completely made in India and will become a hit with the masses in India, who wants a tablet. The pricing between both the tablet are not really huge. There’s a price difference of just Rs. 500 for the higher end version of the tablet!
If this is a success, we are not far away from seeing the school children using the tablet rather than the regular books. The Aakash Tablet runs Android 2.2 and UbiSlate 7 runs Android 2.3. The hardware configurations have been pumped up for the UbiSlate version of the tablet. For this price, the tablet is worth the buy.
I got a chance to get hands-on with it recently and I found that they battery life is pretty poor. But I also heard from a source that they are working on a fix.
If you are the one who is going to get this Aakash tablet, then just go ahead and hit the browsers with www.aakashtablet.com !