Improved Aakash for Students at No Extra Cost

College students across India would get a new, improved and enhanced version of Aakash tablet without having the Government to pay any extra money.
The improved Aakash tablet will have three times faster processing speed and around 50% extra battery life.  All the new versions of tablets to be subsidized by the Government will now have to pass the new quality protocol based on the inputs received from around 600 students of IIT and other engineering colleges.
The HRD ministry had asked Datawind of Montreal-based Suneet S Tuli to supply one lakh Aakash tablets for around $50 each. In the initial lot, 600 tablets were given to students for testing.
IIT, Rajasthan, which had prepared the Aakash prototype cited several deficiencies in the tablet including short battery life, processor unable to handle multiple operations at a time and poor picture quality.
Datawind has already supplied 30,000 tablets by the time the report by the IIT came. The ministry held back the order and asked the firm to fix  the deficiencies. Ministry sources said the company was initially reluctant to upgrade the tablet without increasing the cost. However, it agreed when ministry threatened to cancel the order.
Tuli was not available for comments. A company spokesperson said the remaining 70,000 tablets would be supplied as per the pact.

 “Not only Aakash from Datawind but all future tablets will have minimum Aakash 2 specifications,”

said NK Sinha, additional secretary, HRD ministry.

Ministry officials said Datawind may not get order in future as it had violated the contract condition of providing the tablets first to the government before selling it in open market.

Mozilla Firefox 10 available now

The tenth iteration of Mozilla’s browser is rolling out from today and we’re sat here waiting for our own go signal. As the biggest UI tweaks will arrive in v12, the majority of changes are under the hood: except that the “forward” button now only appears once you’ve pressed “back.” New APIs provide for full-screen viewing of web apps, Anti-aliased WebGL graphics and an “extended support release” that enables enterprise customers to only download security updates. CSS 3D Transitions are now supported alongside a new CSS inspector for those digging deep into the fabric of the universe internet. Java applet and moving bookmarks crashes should be a thing of the past, but it’s not all plain sailing: no new release ever is, after all. On the “to be fixed” list includes herky-jerky scrolling in Gmail, Silverlight videos not working in OS X and vertical scrolling is broken on some touch-pads.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/10.0/releasenotes/.

Nokia Lumia / Asha – Cheapest Windows Smartphone Targeting Indian Market

Have you heard about Nokia Lumia 800 ? Well, Nokia has launched the most affordable Windows Smartphone series targeting Indian Market. Nokia Lumia 800 is the latest model released by the company along with Lumia 710. Nokia was very successful in India, until Google android came into existence. There were few days were Nokia used to have 50% share in the Indian market. Now Nokia is having a share less than 7%. The competition is very high from iPhone OS and also from Google Android. The regular updates from these two operating systems made Nokia to lose their market in India. Keeping this in mind, Nokia has launched two new smartphones which will be based on Microsoft’s new windows phone 7.5 OS.

Nokia Launched its “Lumia 800″ and the “Lumia 710″ to fight back against Apple iPhone and Google Android software. Nokia has a strong faith in these two models that they will strong hold in the Indian market pretty soon. They released total four basic phones in this new series of smartphones. They named it as “Asha” which is a Hindi word for hope. These phones will be relatively cheap and will have all the features like other costly mobiles have. The phone will have a touch screen, 5 MP camera. bright screens, 32GB storage for music and videos, and a long battery life.

Nokia’s new boss, Stephen Elop is confident that the launch of Lumia will give a rebirth to Nokia’s market. Previously Elop warned that the company was stuck on a “Burning Platform”. Elop said that the phones would blur the boundaries between featured phones and smart phones. It will bring a next level of internet usage across the country. Elop said that the “Lumia is the first real Windows phone” and predicted the company would be the leader in “smartphone design and craftsmanship”.  The company is pretty confident on the solidity of Nokia Lumia 800 and compared it to HTC and Samsung by saying though they have decent enough models in market, but will not be as solid as Nokia Lumia 800.

Nokia Lumia 800 Specifications :

1. 3.7″ Touch screen with AMOLED resolution.
2. The impressive tiles in home, will show you weather, a boarding pass or a friend’s photograph.
3. Matter finished body with 142g of body weight.
4. Limited unique apps.
5. No Front camera.
6. Single Core 1.4Ghz processor.
7. 16 GB internal storage.
8. 8 MP camera on the back.
9. 512MB of RAM.
10. Fast performance and beautiful interface.

It will be a million dollar question now, that will people accept Nokia Lumia 800 and Other 4 models ? Windows phone when compared to android are not that flexible. People are habituated to use more android when compared to iPhone or Windows. It would be Nokia’s show up to tell their rivals that even we are not out of the race. In-spite of having BADA OS for Samsung, they excelled in designing android devices, which hit the market super strong.. The best example is the post we made recently on Top 10 Cheap & Best Android v2.2 Phones Under Rs.10,000 For This Diwali You can find almost 5 phones in that list where all the phones are very popular in market now.

If Lumia is a good success in India, then Nokia has no reasons to look after Google Android or Apple iPhone. if its a failure, then its better to work with android software and design new devices according to the trend. After all android will be future market anywhere in the world. Its really well and good that Lumia 800 has finally made a Windows phone good enough to compete with their rivals. But they can only stay in market with regular updates and good customer support. lets hope this new Lumia 800 will bring some change in Nokia shares and market. I guess you all are waiting for Nokia Lumia 800 now.

How To Buy Aakash Tablet Online ?

Must Read :- About Aakash Tablet


I have already written a post regarding the features & specifications of this tablet . You can check out that post by following the link given above . To be frank , it began to be distributed to the government institutions right after its launch but we were waiting for its commercial launch . Although , it have started coming to the retail store in a few areas of India but haven't expanded to all the parts of India . So , if this tablet has not reached your city till now , then I am going to tell you how you can buy this tablet online . Although , if your college or university is in the list of the distribution of this tablet , then you can grab it for just Rs 1750 . So , before going to buy the commercial version of Aakash tablet ( UbiSlate7 ) , please ask your college whether it will be distribute in your college or not . Anyways , at first , let me make you clear that you will not be completely able to buy this tablet online and there is no shipping facility provided by them as well . You can only book this tablet by submitting a form on their official website . First of all , visit their official website and fill out the form at the left side of the screen , and submit it . After that , whenever it will arrive your city ( the city which you have submitted through the form ) , one of their representative will contact you and give you all the details regarding the purchase of this tablet .

One of the great benefits of buying the commercial version is that you will able to use it as a phone due to the ability to insert SIM cards & modem . Well , that's enough for today , don't stay out on here for long , just book the world's cheapest tablet right now from their official website ( www.akashtablet.com ) .

India’s 35$ Tablet announced Named as Aakash

Indian government’s venture to create the cheapest tablet for students has finally been released and manufactured by DataWind Ltd..


Government aims to provide 10000 tablets to students of India. Cost of each tablet is announced as Rs.2250 and is said to decrease in the coming days when Indian Government places an order for mass production of this. DataWind’s Aakash is only for students and the price is subsidized. DataWind plans to release another version of Aakash, called UbiSlate which will be priced slightly higher than Aakash. DataWind claims to deliver UbiSlate by the end of November.

Aakash features -

a 7″ display with resolution 800 x 480 pixels

a 366Mhz Processor

256 MB of RAM

2GB of internal

expandable up to 32 GB through microSD slot

1 standard USB 2.0 Port

Wifi Capability

Battery that lasts 3 hours and

runs Android 2.2 Froyo

Evidently, the tablet will not support HD graphics but the product is quite good for what it is aimed at.