The world’s cheapest tablet has finally come together as planned, perhaps even better. And priced at $35 (about Rs. 1,960) , Aakash 2 appears ready to start a revolution. Wait for it. Aakash 2 is likely to be launched early October, close to the first anniversary of its predecessor, but
some US tech experts got a sneak peek. Needless to say, they loved it.
“I want this device,” wrote Christopher Peri, the highly influential writer for Venture Beat, a leading technology blog, in a review of Aakash 2 on Tuesday.
“World changing indeed,” is how Forbes magazine’s technology contributor Alice Truong ended review of the device.
“I want this device,” wrote Christopher Peri, the highly influential writer for Venture Beat, a leading technology blog, in a review of Aakash 2 on Tuesday.
“World changing indeed,” is how Forbes magazine’s technology contributor Alice Truong ended review of the device.
Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of DataWind, which makes Aakash 2, is thrilled with the reviews, especially after the pasting he got for the Aakash 1, which was panned as too slow, with too many rough edges: far from the dream device India was waiting for. Only 8,000 of the originally contracted 100,000 units shipped.
Tuli said he didn't want or arrange these pre-launch reviews. That was done by Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian American technology entrepreneur and academic.
“Vivek jumped the gun,” Tuli said in a telephone interview.
Wadhwa had become an instant fan of the device the time he first tried it. “It has the potential of revolutionising India,” he gushed, “putting millions of Indians on the Net instantly.”
But he also feared for the future of Aakash 2. “Indians have an inferiority complex about their ability to produce anything of this standard and they would have finished off the device by rubbishing it,” he said.
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