Indian budget tablet PC, Aakash will be made completely indigenous and its production is going to expand. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said, We are now planning to diversify production base, indigenous to create Eco system for end to end development and it may create enormous opportunities for R&D institutions, developers, electronic production houses. We require an additional 22 crore units of Aakash. It can't be filled by current resource So we need to issue tenders enabling other companies along with the present manufacturer Datawind.
Current Aakash tablet price is around 1,100 after student subsidies. It make use of Android OS Most components including the processor are procured from outside. And the speed of processor should increased to minimum of 800 MHz instead of 300 MHz at present. For that government plans to involve three more IITs (IIT Mumbai, IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur) apart from IIT Rajasthan for the Aakash project to make it more indigenous and further lower its price.
Update: Aakash 2 was launched. It contains parts made
in china and assembled in India. Because of this reason Aakash 2 has fewer
prices. It also runs in android platform. It has better performance and appearance
than that of previous version. The demand of Aakash tablet is increasing day by
day. But the production is not capable of met the demand. People experience long
time delay in receiving aakash tablet. But the booking is going on. If you want
to book a new Aakash tablet please visit http://www.ubislate.com/
the official site of Aakash tablets. And another news was coming now, which
says that the team behind Aakash was planning to prepare new edition says Aakash
3. Aakash 3 has SIM slot and more applications. And the research professionals
in IIT Bombay say that Aakash 3 will consider multiple vendors. And it will
have fast processor.