Ultimately after a long delay, Aakash (Ubislate 7 or Sakshat) and Ubislate 7 Plus Tablet – The lowest price Tablet PC has been launched to the public.
Akash Tablet was announced in 2010 with the Price tag of $35, and was supposed to hit the market by January 2011. Unfortunately Project got delayed due to several reasons like testing and all, but it’s here now. The public version of Aakash is now available for purchase.
Akash Tablet is jointly developed by the London based company DataWind and Students of IIT-Rajasthan, and manufactured by an India based company Quad at its Hyderabad production center. The older version of Aakash Tablet (Ubislate 7) was suffering from bugs like overheating (within 30 minutes), lack of support for all formats, poor sound quality etc. So Datawind launched an upgraded version of Akash (Ubislate 7) Tablet by the name Ubislate 7 Plus.
Ubislate 7+ – Upgraded version of Aakash Tablet (Ubislate 7)
Older version of Aakash Tablet (Ubislate 7)
Features of Akash Tablet (Ubislate 7) :
Akash tablet is equipped with Android 2.2 OS, 366 Mhz processor with HD Video processor and Graphics accelerator. It has 256MB RAM along with 2GB Flash memory. Akash tablet supports external storage from 2GB to 32GB.
While talking about the network, it provides Wi-Fi connectivity. Akash also has 2 standard USB slots in it, so that you can plu your Pen-Drive or a USB-Dongle into it.
Akash Tablet has 7″ screen TFT display and 800×480 pixels resolution with resistive touch-screen input.
Akash tablet has a 3.5mm standard audio jack. Bettery backup of Akash tablet is about 3 hours.
Features of Unislate 7 Plus (Upgraded version of Ubislate 7 Tablet) :
Ubislate 7+ is an upgraded version of Akash, which has 700 MHz processor, and GPRS/SIM Card slot in it (Integrated Mic/Speaker), along with all the features of Akash Tablet.
In both the versions of Ubislate 7 Tablet, there is a separate browser application given for internet browsing (named UbiSurfer), and Youtube video streaming.
You can also read and write all Office documents (like DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, ODP, ODT) in both the tablets.
Supported video formats are MPEG4, AVI, FLV, MPEG2.
Supported Music Audio formats are MP3, WAV, AC3, AAC, WMA.
Other features of these Tablets include,
- Open Office
- Zip-Unzip feature
- SciLab
- Full HTML Internet browsing with full support of JavaScript and flash plugins
- Multimedia content in a variety of formats (pdf, docx, ods, adp, xls, jpeg, gif,png, bmp, odt, zip, AVCHD, AVI, AC3)
- 80% shock resistant
There are many rumors around regarding the components used in this Tablet PC, for example Cheap and low quality hardware etc. But I think, we are not paying a high amount to buy this Tablet PC, and at this price tag this is the best Tablet, whole over the world.
How to Buy Ubislate 7 Tablet PCs :
You can order Aakash Tablet (Ubislate 7 – Android 2.2) at just Rs.2500, while the upgraded version Ubislate 7+ (Android 2.3) could be booked at Rs.2999. However same tablet is available for students at just Rs.1000.
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If you have any query regarding Akash tablet, you can call on toll-free number (India) at 18001802180.