Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
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Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
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Re: Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
#2It's $60 retail, there are $75 retail Chinese Android 2.3 tablets - they didn't change the world, why would this one?
Is the government going to create online courses in English and Hindi? Is it going to have English lessons so you can access all those 'educational' Youtube videos? Is it going to record the best elementary school teachers and put their lessons online?
Or is it going to be another - "we put computers in schools and therefore solved all educational problems" just like the US did with the AppleII in the late 70s
Re: Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
#3I wonder whether they can produce them for $35 in a massive scale or the cost keep inflating like the OLPC
Re: Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
#4I wonder whether they can produce them for $35 in a massive scale or the cost keep inflating like the OLPC
The parts are pretty standard and the government can potentially buy them by million plus they can easily line up cheap manufacturing.
The OLPC was a unique and novel design with no real momentum behind it.
The main barrier to the success of this device is that since it's a government project at least 50% of the budget will be siphoned off into pork barrelling, ministerial pet projects and 'consultancy fees' to close friends and relatives of the politicians involved. Unless of course Indian politics is unlike any other variety.
Re: Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
#5Thats 1732.5 INR. Thats pretty good. Lower middle-class should have not problem affording this. As it costs less then a family night out in India.
Re: Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
#6Compared to the top-end devices currently available it is a mediocre device. But it have the potential to introduce technology to an impressive amount of people. I live in Brazil and three years ago I worked in an international team that included three indian programmers. Only one of them had a personal computer in his house. It is a completly different reality.
Re: Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
#7It's $60 retail, there are $75 retail Chinese Android 2.3 tablets - they didn't change the world, why would this one? Is the government going to create online courses in English and Hindi? Is it going to have English lessons so you can access all those 'educational' Youtube videos? Is it going to record the best elementary school teachers and put their lessons online? Or is it going to be another - "we put computers…
The subsidized cost is $35, which makes it affordable to pretty much everyone who can afford a mobile phone. Obviously, this is not going to fix India's education problems. I'll go a step further and say that nothing anybody can do will fix all the educational problems in my country within, say, the next 15 years. Having said that, this seems a step in a right direction.
Re: Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
#8Thats 1732.5 INR. Thats pretty good. Lower middle-class should have not problem affording this. As it costs less then a family night out in India.
This is nitpicking, but no middle-class family can afford to spend 2k on a night out in India. Hell, I was earning a boatload (relatively of course) of money, and I wasn't comfortable spending more than 1k or so on a night out.
Re: Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
#9Thats 1732.5 INR. Thats pretty good. Lower middle-class should have not problem affording this. As it costs less then a family night out in India.
This is nitpicking, but no middle-class family can afford to spend 2k on a night out in India. Hell, I was earning a boatload (relatively of course) of money, and I wasn't comfortable spending more than 1k or so on a night out.
Depends on the time frame that you have in mind. If you've been there in the last year or so, you could see yourself spending more than 3-5K for the 1K night out you're referring to.
Re: Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America
#10Thats 1732.5 INR. Thats pretty good. Lower middle-class should have not problem affording this. As it costs less then a family night out in India.
wait!! you are saying a family night out in India would cost more than 1700 INR? Unless you are going to a five star restaurant, I am pretty sure this is not the case.
This would be awesome if they don't allow the cost to increase, down the road.