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India Launches $35 Tablet 203

Posted by samzenpus
from the price-drop dept.
Many readers have submitted stories about a new $35 tablet computer released today in India. The Aakash (meaning sky) has been handed out to 500 students for an initial trial run, if successful a $60 commercial version will hit the shelves later this year. The Aakash computer runs Android 2.2 (Froyo), has a 7-inch touch screen, 256MB of RAM, 32GB expandable memory slot, two USB ports, and weighs in at only 350 grams.
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India Launches $35 Tablet

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  • Re:Cool (Score:2, Insightful)

    by BriggsBU (1138021) on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @03:33PM (#37616332)
    Look at the state of Medicare and Social Security, though. They are operating at a horrible loss and probably won't even exist in their current form in the next 20 years. People constantly tout Medicare and Social Security as the model for how things should be done, but they are only surviving due to the influx of money from a generation that will likely never gain any benefit from them.

  • At $20/hour? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by roman_mir (125474) on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @03:49PM (#37616548) Homepage Journal

    Occupy Wall Street Movement [slashdot.org] wants Americans to make $20/hour (whether they work or not), so providing tech support for a $35 device at over $20/hour would be a neat trick.

  • Re:The real price of phones (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Rockoon (1252108) on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @05:35PM (#37618032)

    Every actually priced a cell phone?

    Mine cost $35 with no contract (its pay-as-you-go.)

    You are paying a lot more than you think for that shiny toy, they just figured out you will swallow $200 up front and finance the rest over two years a lot better than $499 up front.

    You are confusing "cell phone" with "smart phone" .. stop being an idiot. Smart phones are still a large minority both in the United States as well as globally.

    It is because the TracPhone is crap

    So yesterdays high-end feature-phones like the Motorola RAZR are crap now? You really are an idiot. You seem to have incorrectly conflated "Touch Screen" with "Quality" and that makes you stupid.

    Someone mod me troll for calling this wanker out.

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