Jersey #10 Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 ^It will be hit hugely after everyone has one of these crap devices in their hands. I could use it as an alarm clock. Not bad at all, I use my HP touchpad for just that and not much more anyway. On the other hand, my galaxy 10.1 replaced most of my computer needs
ViruRulez Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 anybody ordered ubislate version?? Yes. I had ordered or rather pre-booked it as soon as the Aakash sales went online. However, not sure if it would be delivered in the near future as it seems they will have to first sort out the Aakash demands before actually releasing the Ubislate orders. And there is no news on the Aakash one too and no order has been perhaps delivered. So, it would probably take a few months before the first tablet of the Ubislate version is even booked. :giggle:
shinchan Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 ^^ i also ordered it as soon as aakash went online...got return mail from company too.. but i'm confused about os of tab.is it 2.2 or 2.3? in mail they've mentioned 2.2 while they r advertising it as 2.3
Sachin=GOD Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 Will Aakash Make a Perfect Landing This Time Around SECOND-TIME LUCKY The first version of the Aakash tablet failed to fire.Will the second version,due to be released next month,get its act together Shelley Singh looks back and ahead. Two men,in two time zones,are busy stitching up the last ends to relaunch a product that promised the country the moon but delivered an eclipse in its first show.From his perch in Montreal in Canada,Suneet Singh Tuli is monitoring the assembling of 100,000 pieces of the worlds cheapest tablet,Aakash,in a factory in Amritsar.And in Mumbai,DB Phatak,an IIT professor,is preparing for an event on November 10 in the city,where he will make a pitch to teachers from 250 engineering colleges to have this.2,263 tablet replace notebooks and blackboards in classrooms.A lot is riding on Aakash-II.Theres redemption: a year ago,Aakash-I,delivered by Tulis company DataWind,was universally panned for being a showpiece and little else,and Aakash-II comes with significant upgrades.Theres reputation: IIT Bombay,which replaced IIT Jodhpur as DataWinds technology partner amid much acrimony and lawsuits,cant be seen to be presiding over another flop show.Theres reward: the government wants to buy 5.86 million such devices to give to college- and school-going kids,in an order that is notionally worth.1,300 crore.And,lastly,theres a question: can Aakash be the device that Indias teeming masses 95% of whom dont own any computing device plug in to study,access services and connect to the world Two men think so.We have had enough of unnecessary controversies, Tuli,CEO of DataWind,told ET during a visit to New Delhi last month.The specs are better than some of the hot-selling tablets,but at half the price. Adds Phatak,whose institute approved the specs of Aakash-II and has tested the first 1,500 units: Im not only confident,but sure that Aakash 2.0 is here to stay. But after the disaster that was Aakash-I a screen that had to be jabbed,a battery that died within an hour,a processor that could not run several applications at a time and a body that was prone to overheating experts say they will wait to give a verdict. Ripple Effect of Aakash that Made Cheap Tab Mkt Possible Aakash 1.0 was like a toy that didnt work.However,the last 12 months have shown lowcost is not a lost cause.I wont write off Aakash and will give it another 12-18 months.This time,they should get it right, says Venu Reddy,research director,IDC India.Even though Aakash-I bombed,ironically,it has had a crucialthough unintentionalrole to play in the strides the low-cost landscape has taken in the past year towards feasibility and sustenance.Aakash sold this story of low-cost tablets and everyone jumped in, says Vishal Tripathi,research analyst,Gartner India.At.2,263,Aakash matched the price of a branded DVD player,creating a new segment at a price unheard of.Tablets were an elite product before Aakash, says the previous MAIT president Alok Bhardwaj.Adds Reddy: Aakash created the tablet market in India.It made the tablet the centre of any computer-buying discussion in households. A stampede of companies ensued in the tablet business-Tripathi of Gartner counts them at about 70 todayand they started layering the market.They occupied the large space that existed between the promise of Aakash and the reality of premium buys like an Apple iPad and a Samsung Galaxy,but their essential premise was to appeal to the value buyer.For example,mobile phone manufacturer Micromax entered the tablets business this April.It now has five models,priced between.4,999 and.9,999,and claims to sell 100,000 units a month.Wishtel,another low-cost maker,has its entry-level product at.3,500 and claims to sell about 50,000 pieces per month.According to hardware industry association MAIT,tablet sales in India are expected to cross 2 million in 2012-13a six-fold increase over the 350,000 units in 2011-12.And the share of low-end tablets (below.10,000),by volumes,is expected to increase from 8% to 50%.Aakash changed the landscape for all of us, says Deepak Mehrotra,CEO of Micromax.It opened minds to the sheer potential in the category. A perfect storm of growing adoption,exploding demand and keen suppliers pulled down hardware prices.In the past 12 months,prices of key tablet components like microprocessor,touch screen and memory have crashed by 50%and continue to fall. AAKASH UPGRADES DataWind has also benefited from the price correction,and is coming out -- at least on paper so far -- with something that is a leap on its predecessor.Aakash-II has a faster chip,greater memory,a better screen,a camera and open office software.Even as he looks ahead,one refrain of Tuli is the world was harsh in how it judged Aakash-I.In February 2011,DataWind was the lowest bidder for a tender floated by IIT Jodhpur and backed by the Central government for a low-cost computing device: at $35 (about.1,820).Promoted by non-resident Indian (NRI) entrepreneurs,DataWind is a 12-year-old technology products firm headquartered in London.In October 2011,Aakash-I was launched,and DataWind shipped 6,000 pieces to IIT Jodhpur,its technology partner.IIT Jodhpur rejected 90% of the consignment,saying there were hardware and software glitches,and were not rugged enough.IIT Jodhpur and Hyderabad-based Quad Systems,which was making Aakash for DataWind,declined to participate in this story.According to Tuli,the initial tender listed specs for the device,but did not specify any testing criteria.IIT Jodhpur put it through absurd tests (not being able to withstand four inches of rain for four days and came off when dangled with a battery charger) and later insisted on US military grade ruggedness, he says.The device was being tested by people who had used only an iPad before.Aakash was never meant to be a replacement for an iPad. Samit Ray of PricewaterhouseCoopers,a consultancy,agrees iPad comparisons were sub-consciously made and that they were misplaced,but adds that it did not even stand to realistic benchmarks.It was not an iPad kid of device,but was neither good for the villager,farmer or student, says Ray,director,PwC.Processing speed,over-heating,software glitches and lack of ruggedness were among the flaws. Both Tuli and Phatak say Aakash-II addresses these issues.The government stuck with Data-Wind,which carried out four upgrades of Aakash;thus,Aakash-II is actually the fifth iteration of the.2,263 tablet.During this time,Quad Systems and IIT Jodhpur have left the project,with IIT Bombay coming in as DataWinds new technology partner in May 2012.It was Phataks team in IIT Bombay that defined the minimum technical standards for DataWind for Aakash-II.Data-Wind delivered 1,500 Aakash tablets to IIT Bombay this August and is supposed to supply the remaining by Decemberend.These are good,absolutely stable, says Phatak,on the first lot.According to Phatak,faculty and students from eight departments of IIT Bombay,including electrical and mechanical engineering,have tested Aakash-II.Aakash is as good as any tablet for the purpose we are looking at education, says Phatak,a professor in the department of computer science.Come January,and students from 250 engineering colleges will be studying on Aakash tablets. As a run up to the full rollout,IIT Bombay is conducting two workshops to demonstrate Aakash-II.The first workshop,on November 10 and 11,intends to familiarise 13,000 teachers from 250 engineering colleges on the use of the new tablet and developing local language applications.The second,in December,will be with 1,000 teachers,using Aakash-II to study thermodynamics.New Competing Ground At one level,Aakash-II is fighting itself -- to fix its inherent flaws.At another level,given the way the dynamics in the low-cost tablet space are changing,with a posse attacking the price line,serious competition for Aakash-II will also come from commercial manufacturers.As we move along,it will be possible to offer quality at Aakash kind of price points, says Gautam Advani,head of mobility,HCL Infosystems,which currently has tablets starting from.7,999.According to Milind Shah,managing director of Wishtel,the key to making money in hardware is sourcing strategies which markets you go to,how you negotiate currency swings,how you manage inventories,etc.A tablet has 600-900 components, he says.Everyone sources these parts from China,Taiwan and Korea.Companies that get the sourcing right will benefit the most from falling hardware prices. Buyers are also segregating the market.Ray of PwC says companies and governments are looking at tablets to reduce capital expenditure.An enterprise-class laptop costs.80,000,and you now have similar performance tablets at one-third to one-fourth of that cost, he says.Premium players are focused on this end of the market,while mass-market players see governments and low- and middle-class households as buyers. Both the Centre and state governments are showing increasing interest in low-cost tablets.They are seeing tablets as utilitarian device for government staff,as well as a useful handout to score electoral gains with the voter and give large contracts to companies.Besides the potential order for 5.86 million Aakash tablets from the ministry of human resource development,four states have indicated picking up at least 3 million tablets to give to school-going children (See graphic: The Coming Explosion in Low-Cost Tablets).Going forward,as hardware becomes more commoditised,companies see the game shifting to what can users do with tablets.Hardware is commodity, says Advani of HCL.Applications,content and solutions will determine winners. In other words,what all applications and content -- for example,education material,games,films -- manufacturers can bundle,or offer at a nominal cost,to buyers Aakash-II,which rides on Googles Android operating system,will give buyers access to the app store of the search major.A manufacturing buying access to an operating system players large store is one model.a second model is a manufacturer developing its own applicationsHCL has a 14-people team developing Android applications.A third model is a manufacturer tying up with other app and content developers.For example,Micromax has tied up with BIGFlix for films,with Indiagames for video games,and with Pearson and Everonn Education for study material. Economic Times
Crookbond Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 Not worth it - already tested the second version before it was released to the market.
Sachin=GOD Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 Not worth it - already tested the second version before it was released to the market. so whats missing? I mean, as compared to entry level tablets what all is not at par.
The Outsider Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 I bought this for our household help the last time I was in India. He really likes it and is able to save his songs and pictures on it without any problems while keeping his cellphone relatively free. Browsing is okay on it and video rendition is pretty good for the price.
Clarke Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 Its meant for the less fortunate, why would members here even consider buying it :hmmmm2:
vvvslaxman Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 so whats missing? I mean' date=' as compared to entry level tablets what all is not at par.[/quote'] skip a couple of buffet you could buy this one :cantstop:
Crookbond Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 so whats missing? I mean' date=' as compared to entry level tablets what all is not at par.[/quote'] Screen and Android 4.0; not sure why Android 4.1 is not on it if it is releasing next month. Also, a tablet is how it works - you use it and you will know how clunky it is. It is like paying for a surgery which you will know will fail.
Sachin=GOD Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 skip a couple of buffet you could buy this one :cantstop: I ain't buying a tablet anytime soon. Its pretty much a useless device.
Nova Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 I ain't buying a tablet anytime soon. Its pretty much a useless device. You can lay on the bed and read stuff on the Internet like a book. Comfortable browsing experience, if you have the extra money.
Sachin=GOD Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 You can lay on the bed and read stuff on the Internet like a book. Comfortable browsing experience' date=' if you have the extra money.[/quote'] For books I have a Kindle. I also have an iPad at home but I never use it - the screen is too small for my liking and its heavy. For normal internet browsing, watching videos etc laptop is good enough but PC is the best.
Nova Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 For books I have a Kindle. I also have an iPad at home but I never use it - the screen is too small for my liking and its heavy. For normal internet browsing, watching videos etc laptop is good enough but PC is the best. You can't lay on the bed and use a laptop like how you can use a tablet. iPad gets heavy when you only hold it with your hands. Do this. Lay on the bed, put a pillow on your belly and place the iPad on it. It is so comfortable. All the weight gets transferred on the body and the hands are left free to navigate. I don't find the desktop comfy for extended reading sessions, where you have to sit for long hours without getting up.
Old guy Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 You can't lay on the bed and use a laptop like how you can use a tablet. iPad gets heavy when you only hold it with your hands. Do this. Lay on the bed, put a pillow on your belly and place the iPad on it. It is so comfortable. All the weight gets transferred on the body and the hands are left free to navigate. I don't find the desktop comfy for extended reading sessions, where you have to sit for long hours without getting up. i use my tablet is exact same way its not really heavy enough to bother me but when ur reading a book holding it for hour or 2 can be hard :giggle: i didnt used pillow before so thnx for TIPS :D
Sachin=GOD Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 You can't lay on the bed and use a laptop like how you can use a tablet. iPad gets heavy when you only hold it with your hands. Do this. Lay on the bed, put a pillow on your belly and place the iPad on it. It is so comfortable. All the weight gets transferred on the body and the hands are left free to navigate. I don't find the desktop comfy for extended reading sessions, where you have to sit for long hours without getting up. will definitely try this :two_thumbs_up: If I have to read anything, I simply transfer it to the kindle - IMO its the best device to read
Nova Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 Please don't use a heavy pillow...coz that will defeat the purpose. In my case, my belly is big enough that it acts like a pillow... :hysterical:
Crookbond Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 You can't lay on the bed and use a laptop like how you can use a tablet. iPad gets heavy when you only hold it with your hands. Do this. Lay on the bed' date= put a pillow on your belly and place the iPad on it. It is so comfortable. All the weight gets transferred on the body and the hands are left free to navigate. I don't find the desktop comfy for extended reading sessions, where you have to sit for long hours without getting up. I thought the next you would say take out your right hand and put it on your ....
Sachin=GOD Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 I thought the next you would say take out your right hand and put it on your .... dimaag har samay bas ek hi topic par jaata hai :headshake:
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