The ambitious Aakash project had always been of interest to me. It was one of those things that I genuinely believed could change the face ...
03:42 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The government said that there is no proposal to provide Aakash 2 tablets to students from poor and rural backgrounds in the first phase. ...
05:19 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Just days after President Pranab Mukherjee launched the Aakash 2 tablet, it's now got international appeal. It has now been launched by Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the United Nations. There was much applause for India's innovation and what's been seen as a game changer. ...
09:10 AM, Nov 29, 2012
India's first indigenously created low-cost tablet Aakash will be showcased at the United Nations headquarters on Wednesday. India will be presenting a tablet to the representative from each country at the General Assembly which begins on Wednesday. ...
10:08 AM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: While the HRD Ministry is offering the low-cost Aakash 2 tablet to Indian students at a subsidised price of Rs 1,130, the same device is also commercially available for purchase at Rs 4,499. The commercial version of the Aakash 2 unit is branded as UbiSlate 7Ci. The UbiSlate 7Ci (Aakash 2) tablet comes engineered with a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, while the original Aaaksh tablet was powered by...
02:49 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: Datawind in association with the HRD Ministry has launched Aakash 2 - the new version of India's low-cost tablet Aakash, which was trashed by both users and reviewers for its poor performance. The new Aakash 2 tablet is available at a subsidised price of Rs 1,130 for Indian students, while Datawind is delivering the tablet to the HRD Ministry at Rs 2,263. Compared to the previous version of...
02:53 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: Maker of low cost Aakash tablet, Datawind, today said it has started supplying the new version of the tablet to IIT Bombay and it is likely to be launched in October. "Supplies are on to IIT Bombay. In the next few weeks, it should be launched. I do not have the exact date, but HRD Minister (Kapil Sibal) has said he wants to launch on the anniversary date...
04:20 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Hyderabad: An upgraded version of Aakash, the low cost tablet billed as the cheapest computer in the world for students and the teaching community, is set to be launched "very soon", HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said on Sunday. The improved version is fitted with a faster processor and enhanced battery life among other features. "It (the idea of low cost computer) was rejected throughout the world and it was said...
04:51 AM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: The much-talked about low-cost Aakash 2 will make its entry to the world of tablets by the third week of July. This was revealed by Datawind CEO Sunil Singh Tuli, in an interview with IBNLive. "We have given 100 units to IIT Bombay for testing, and are still waiting for the final approval from them, which is likely to come by the second or third week of July,"...
01:55 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: Stories about the Aakash 2 tablet have been doing the rounds for quite a while now. In an interview with IBNLive, Sunil Singh Tuli, CEO, Datawind, put some light on the key specifications of the upcoming Aakash 2 tablet. Compared to the previous version of the Aakash tablet, which proved to be a dud, the company has now upgraded some of the key features to enhance the user...
06:05 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Mumbai: The specifications for revised version of the world's cheapest tablet PC - Aakash 2 will be finalised by month-end, Union Telecom and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has said. "During the course of this month, we will finalise the specifications and technology for the Aakash project and move forward with its manufacturing," Sibal said at an event over the weekend here. The tablet will be a platform on which public...
11:03 AM, Jun 03, 2012
