The Indian Government announced that they will be selling a $35 Tablet PC to students this year, and they are planning to further reduce the cost to $20 and eventually to around $10. Sure, its not as sleek as say… an iPad, but hey it still has quite a few features packed into its little frame.

Ultimately the intended goal of this tablet is to help spread education throughout rural India by offering these tablets filled with educational courses and materials.

Minimum Functionalities expected:-

1. Support for video web Conferencing facility
2. Multimedia content viewer for example .pdf, .doc, .xls, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .odt, .zip, AVCHD, AVI, AC3, etc.
3. Searchable Pdf reader
4. Unzip tool for unzipping zip files.
5. Possibility of installing suitable firmware upgradation.
6. Computing capabilities such as Open Office , SciLab , cups (for printing support)
7. Media player capable of playing streamed as well as stored media files.
8. Internet browsing with flash plug-in, JavaScript, pdf plug-in java.
9. Wireless communication for Audio/video I/O.
10. Cloud computing option.
11. Remote device management capability.
12. Multimedia input output interface option (for allowing DTV, IPTv, DTH, streaming etc.)

Source: trak.in


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Really cheap and sounds like a good thing for students to have^.^


even though they are super cheap, they are only used for school stuff anyways, so no need to have a lot of cool apps and programs haha


wow - pretty snazzy
i wonder how functional it really is though
the video web conferencing is cool sounding raspberry



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