Sunday, November 11, 2012

President Pranab Mukherjee launches low cost Aakash-2 tablet at Rs 1,130, Key Features



President Pranab Mukherjee launches low cost Aakash-2 tablet at Rs 1,130, Key Features

President Pranab Mukherjee launching the Aakash 2 tablet at the National Education Day function in the Capital on Sunday. - Photo: Sandeep Saxena

The advanced version of low cost tablet Aakash was launched here today by President Pranab Mukherjee.

Datawind in association with the HRD Ministry has launched Aakash 2 - the new version of India\\'s low-cost tablet Aakash, which was trashed by both users and reviewers for its poor performance. The new Aakash 2 tablet is available at a subsidised price of Rs 1,130 for Indian students, while Datawind is delivering the tablet to the HRD Ministry at Rs 2,263.
Compared to the previous version of the Aakash tablet, which proved to be a dud, the company has now upgraded some of the key features to enhance the user experience.
The new Aakash 2 tablet comes engineered with a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, while the original Aaaksh tablet was powered by a 366 MHz processor. The Aakash 2 tablet has a a 7-inch capacitive display with four multi-touch points. The screen has a resolution of 800×480 pixels. The previous version of Aakash had a 7-inch resistive touch screen.

Key specifications: Aakash 2
- 7-inch multi-touch capacitive screen
- 512 MB RAM
- 4GB (internal) flash memory, which is expandable up to 32GB using a micro SD card
- USB port
- 1 GHz Cortex A8 processor
- Front facing camera
- WiFi

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