Worlds Cheapest Tablet PC

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.

In this post I will tell you about the new Tablet PC from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangaluru, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Mumbai have co-developed the `1,500 (32 US$ approx) Tablet PC, unveiled by Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) Kapil Sibal. The world’s cheapest Tablet PC. This Tablet PC is for students (both school and college), manufacturing will start in 2011. Now it might just cost `1,500 but in starting next year the government wants to sell it to the Indian students at price of `500. Can you imagine it can be chipper then a cell phone.

The name of the device is Sakshat.

§  The device size (5in. in width and 10in. in height) is probably same as an iPad size.

§  Single unit touch screen

§  2 GB of Memory using Memory card and can be extend with 32 GB using external device

§  256 MB of RAM

§  Wi-Fi enabled

§  Fixed Ethernet capability

§  Linux based Operating System (OS)

§  USB port

§  PDF reader

§  Camera for video conference

§  Open Office

§  Multi connect viewer

§  Multimedia input/output (I/O) interface option

§  Siclab

§  Media player

And so on. It only needs 2 watts power to get charge, It also has an option of solar power and it use

Kapil Sibal with Sakshat