The Times of India are reporting that the primary contractor for the super cheap tablet has been let go. According to sources close to the project, HCL Infosystems had been selected as a vendor for the $35 tablet and had been dropped after insisting on several new conditions. It’s also been reported that the vendor [...]
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Vestal launch new e-readers in India
December 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
Vestal, a tech company based in Singapore, have just announced that they will be entering the Indian e-reader market. They plan to sell 5 e-readers and an Android tablet. BTW, you may have heard of the KeyReader, an e-reader Vestal released in their home market of Singapore. Like one of the Leaf models, the KeyReader [...]
India’s Wink XTS e-reader is the Hanlin V60
September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
There was a story going around this past week about EC Media and their new Wink 5″ e-reader model. I passed on the story; I’d already reported about the 5″ e-reader back in July and there was no new detail. No one had pictures, so it wasn’t worth a post.
India’s $35 to ship in January
September 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
Techpp.com are reporting that Indian $35 tablet has gotten a name, manufacturer, and ship date: The highly anticipated $35 tablet from India, Sakshat is set to arrive in January 2011, as the government of India has handed over the manufacturing contract to HCL Technologies. HCL Technologies Ltd is a well known Indian computer services firm [...]
First look at India’s $35 tablet (video)
August 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews, Indian Tablet, video
The Indian Minister for Human Resources Development (similar to the US Dep’t of Education) was interviewed on Gadget Guru, an Indian tech show. His interview starts at about 2:32, and if you jump to about 9:20 you’ll see a review of the tablet. It’s not actually a $35 tablet (unless you buy it in quantities [...]
Negroponte offere OLPC tech to India’s $35 tablet program
August 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
There was a rather interesting story on the GoodGearGuide blog Saturday: The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help develop the Indian government’s planned US$35 tablet. In a congratulatory note to the government, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said the world needs the $35 tablet, and he offered the country full [...]
More details on India’s $35 tablet
July 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Charbax of Armdevices.net found what might be the hardware developer for the $35 tablet I reported on this morning.He was at the Freescale Technology Forum last month when he met a Bangalore based company called AllGo Systems. Here is Charbax’s bill of materials for the AllGo tablet: ARM9 Processor: $5 (Freescale i.MX233) Memory: $3 WiFi [...]
Craze for ebooks yet to catch on in India
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Here’s another good background article on ebooks. I already knew most of the details, but this article gave me a good feel for the ebook market there. From the article: Globally, on Amazon.com, the sales of ebooks may have outstripped the sales of hardcover books over the past three months. However, this does not appear [...]
India announce $35 tablet, OLPC folks nowhere to be found
July 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
Details are sparse on this tablet, but we do know that the Indian Gov’t. have been working on low cost devices for several years now. You might recall that last year they announced a low cost tablet (which never was produced, so far as I can tell). At this time we don’t know the specs, [...]
Olive Telecom launch India’s 1st 3G tablet
July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
And in a burst of originality they’ve decided to call it the OlivePad. This is a 7″ Android tablet with Wifi, Bluetooth, 3G, 2 cameras, and it runs Android 2.1. It’s going to be available in August starting at 20000 rupees ($424). Olive
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