The much anticipated $35 (Rs 1,700) tablet will be launched today.The tablet being made by Datawind is the brainchild of human resources minister Kapil Sibal and a team of technologists from IIT Rajasthan.
It is being touted as India's answer to Nicholas Negroponte's famed OLPC laptop and will be made available to college students by next month, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said.
Speaking at an award ceremony held by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Sibal said the tablet would be launched by October in a bid to let children go beyond the boundary of classroom and teachers to acquire knowledge through IT.
The prototype will run on Google's Android. It has a virtual keyboard, camera, full video capability, Wi-Fi for browsing, an e-reader, and 2GB RAM.
The touch screen is a bit slow to respond but all in all it is a fairly impressive little package particularly for the price, and a game changer for India and possibly beyond, a gadget reviewer said.
The cheapest tablets available globally are at about $99 for an HP TouchPad and $199 for Amazon's Kindle Fire. In India, tablets currently start from $99 for Pepper, a tablet launched last month by Devraj group of companies. The Wespro ePad is available at Rs 7,000.
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