India Launches $35 Tablet 203
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.
Re:Cool (Score:2, Insightful)
At $20/hour? (Score:3, Insightful)
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)
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.