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The British company Data Wind says that Android-surf plate Aakash is sold out. Those who booked themselves will have to wait a bit in January. But you can also queue up for an upgraded version, Ubislate7.
Aakash is a simple, seven-inch Tablet with Android OS 2.2, an ARM 11 processor and an internal memory of 256 megabytes.
It was developed by the British firm Data Wind in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology, Rajasthan. The production is made by an Indian company, Quad at its factories in Hyderabad. The first 100,000 panels commissioned by the Government of India, who paid 2,250 Indian rupees, just about 280 bucks a pop. The idea is that the Indian government to buy millions of surf boards that students should be able to buy at a price of 225 dollars and eventually even lower. The December 15 started the sale to the public. Then opened the Data Wind Internet shop and promised delivery within two weeks. It was rush hour. In two weeks came in 1.4 million bookings, and on Monday announced Data Wind that everything was sold out and that those who queue up to wait a few months into January before getting his surf board. At the same time opens the Data Wind queue for an upgraded version called Ubislate 7 of 3000 Indian rupees, equivalent to 390 dollars. The price increase is mainly due to Ubislate 7 has a built-in 3G modem. The cheaper Aakash model is just ready for 3G. Ubislate 7 may also Andorid 2.3.
But both versions have wifi chip socket for SD cards and two USB ports
that allow you to connect the keyboard, webcam and other peripherals. The hard drive has a capacity of 2 GB of data.
To cope with the rush for the cheap surplattorna the manufacturer Quad to launch three new factories in 2012.
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