{"id":9935,"date":"2012-09-21T11:15:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T11:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/will_the_35_aakash_tablet_transform_the_world.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:43:46","slug":"will-the-35-aakash-tablet-transform-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/will-the-35-aakash-tablet-transform-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Will the $35 Aakash Tablet Transform the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The iPhone 5 is selling at retail stores today to millions of people who are obviously wealthy. After all an unlocked 64GB model which is unlocked runs $849! Some people are so bent out of shape about how much money Apple is making from the launch of this phone, they are protesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While most of the world is focusing on Apple, what may be interesting to note is in India there is a new and usable tablet which starts at just $35. As Gary Kim points out<\/a>, the DataWind Aakash UbiSlate 7Ci is a super-cheap tablet that will attempt to connect every student in India to the Internet.<\/p>\n

The tablet has<\/a> a 7.5 inch display, a front facing camera and surfs the web about as fast as an iPhone – probably not as fast as the iPhone 5 though. The video below gives you an idea of how fast this thing actually runs when doing speech rec and a web search.<\/p>\n