worlds cheapest tablet "AKASH"

The Salient Features of the Tablet

• The tablet is the cheapest in the world
• The tablet can also be used as a mobile phone as it has facility for inserting SIM card and headphones
• The device is Wi-Fi and GPRS enabled
• It can also function as a 3G if dongle is enabled
• The formats supported by the image viewer are –JPG, PNG, GIF and BMP
• The audio formats the device supports are – WMA, AAC,MP3, WAV and AC3
• The tablet supports the following video formats – MPEG2, MPE4, FLV and AVI
• Document formats supported by the system are – DOCX, DOC, PPTX,PPT,XLSX,XLS,ODP and ODT
• The web browser is of standard compliance, JavaScript 1.8 complaint, xHTML 1.1 compliant
• It also has a Text editor and a PDF viewer

Though the Aakash Tablet may not have a high speed processor or all the features required by the technical savvy, it is still a good device and an upgrade is expected soon.
By February 2012, an improved and more competent Aakash-2, world’s most affordable tablet PC, is expected to be launched at the same price as its previous version. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Rajasthan has confirmed the improvements made in Aakash-1, which was launched on October 5. HRD minister Kapil Sibal said that new version of Aakash will be launched during January-February, 2012.
Aakash has got an ample response internationally, when exhibited at a recent United Nations conference in Paris. Aakash has shown so much of interest among several international organizations and world leaders. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said. “Several prime ministers and ministers have evinced interest in Aakash who want it for their country in thousands,” he told media correspondents without elaborating.
The Aakash-2, based on response from more than 500 users of Aakash-1 in IITs and many other institutions, will include microprocessor of 800MHz instead of 366MHz processor. It will improve the speed of the tablet and will enable downloading videos from internet.
The RAM (Random Access Memory) of the Aakash-2 will be enhanced to 1GB from 256 MB in Aakash-1 that restricted multi-tasking.