Indian students to get $35 tablets
Speaking at an awards ceremony held by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Sibal said the tablet would be launched by October in a bid to enable children to go beyond the boundary of classrooms and teachers to acquire knowledge through IT.
The Indian government will subsidise the cost by 50%, reports paidContent. It is unclear whether the two reports refer to the same or different devices, but it is more likely the $35 device may be aimed at schools and colleges, whose bulk purchasing power may reduce the effective price of what is already mooted to be a low-spec unit.
The tablet will run on Google's Android platform, have WiFi capability for Internet access and cloud storage. It will have 256MB of RAM, a 2GB SD memory card, a 32GB expandable memory slot and two USB ports, according to Firstpost Business.
Datawind, a UK-based company known for manufacturing the Pocketsurfer, a hand-held device to surf the Web, will manufacture the tablet.
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