The Indian Government To Price Aakash Tablet At Rs 1500

The ground-breaking Aakash tablet aimed at the poor Indian and college students will be nominally priced in the market.

Kapil Sibal has decided to offer the Aakash Tablet at less than Rs 1500 making sure that most school and college going kids can afford it. Datawind, the maker of the tablet sells it to the government at a little over Rs 2000 per piece. However, post subsidy, the government plans to make the tablets available to college students between Rs 1300 to Rs 1500 per tablet. 

“Each student must have a Aakash in his/her hand so that they can see the world with it," Sibal said at a function New Delhi.

Kapil Sibal also stressed on the need for advanced gadgets and technology at affordable tablets in the country. "I want a wrist watch, which will video graph, which will set up an alarm, which will call up dedicated lines. Let’s have a GPS system and let’s produce this for less than Rs. 1,000 for the citizens of our country for their safety," Sibal said.

While the government might be stressing on cheaper tech, the quality of the budget gadgets needs to be improved, too.

Lava Launches Etab Xtron Tablet With 7-Inch Dual Core Processor And Jelly Bean At Rs 6499

Lava Etab Xtron, a 7-inch tablet comes with dual core processor, Android Jelly Bean with a price tag of just Rs 6499

Lava is making waves in India like no one else. The smart-phone and tablet manufacturer is increasing its reach to more and more areas and trying to increase its inventory at breakneck pace. The best thing about Lava products is the fact that they are very affordable and give good value to the person spending money on its products.

Its latest offer that is making headlines across the country is a very well manufactured seven inch tablet that cost merely Rs 6499. Named as Etab Xtron, the tab comes with top specifications and features and being very affordable it is going to get really good response in the market in the days to come.

Indian consumers are waking up to the importance of smart-phones and tablets and the fact that very affordable handsets and tablets are being launched almost every other day, they are going for them in large number. Lava over the years has impressed consumers in India. Its good marketing practices and rather impressive products have forced people to fall for its products.

The tab despite being priced on lower side comes with rather good specs and features. Coming with 7-inch TFT LCD display it comes with a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels. Etab Xtron is powered by dual core Cortex A9 processor which has been clocked at 1.5GHz. Along with 1GB of DDR3 RAM and a Mali-400 quad core GPU, it packs enough punch to run all the features more than smoothly.

As far as camera is concerned, Etab Xtron comes with 2 mega pixel front camera for video chatting. As far as its storage is concerned, it comes 8GB 8GB. But you can get as much as 32GB using a microSD card.

Lava seems to be very ecstatic about the chances of its latest product in the market that runs on Android Jelly Bean. SN Rai Director of Lava International Ltd says, “At Lava, we set out to uplift our users to the absolute cutting-edge technology. ETAB XTRON is a technology-rich product that provides the latest Android experience on a tablet at a very strategic price; being a perfect offering for highly aspirational people.” For consumers to it gives a decent choice in 7-inch tablet market.

Zync To Launch 5 Dual Core And Quad Core Tablets

Zync, one of India’s leading technology providers would launch five new dual-core and quad-core tablets in 7 inch, 8 inch, 9.7 inch and 10.1 inch screen. The price of these tablets will be below Rs 15,000.

The 8 inch tablet will be India’s first quad-core tablet to hit the market. The 10.1 inch tablet will be India’s first quad-core tablet to be available in the market this month. Some of these tablets will be using the apple iPad 3 screen, powered by a 1.6GhZ processor, 32GB in built memory, a dual camera and other additional features which are going to definitely a value add to consumers.

Ashish Garg, Director, Zync Global, said, “All these five tablets which will be launched end of this month will have a unique USP which no other player has in the market in terms of features and price. Zync is bullish on the tablet market and the price range of these tablets with the latest features is going to sweep people off their feet, so watch this space for more!”