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India to launch 'world's cheapest' tablet

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India - home of incredibly cheap cars - is set to release a $35 (£23) Android tablet, aimed at students and school children.</div>
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The tablet is known as Aakash - which means sky in Urdu - and has been developed by Datawind, a small British company.</div>
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Aakash will run Google's Android operating system and is subsidised by the Indian government.</div>
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An initial run of 100,000 tablets will be made available to students, before being manufactured in the millions over the next few months.</div>
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The assembly of the device will take place in India, with the aim of increasing the mere eight per cent of it 1.2 billion population who have internet access.</div>
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"Soon, a $35 computer will be made available to every child in school," said telecoms and education minister Kapil Sibal. "The tablet shall help enhance the quality of learning of children."</div>
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Full specifications for the tablet have yet to be revealed, but we're guessing it'll be on the cheaper end of the Android scale, with a resistive plastic screen and a slow processor.</div>
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But it could also signal a revolution in tablets - the netbook has its roots in the similarly low budget One Laptop Per Child scheme.</div>
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India to launch 'world's cheapest' tablet

India - home of incredibly cheap cars - is set to release a $35 (£23) Android tablet, aimed at students and school children. The tab...

India wants to monitor Google and Skype as well

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India wants to monitor Google and Skype as well

After recent reports of the Indian government’s intentions to strong arm RIM into compromising the security of its BlackBerry devices,...