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AAKASH 2 How a $20 tablet from India could blindside PC makers | 152 comments | Create New Account
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AAKASH 2 How a $20 tablet from India could blindside PC makers
Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 08:07 PM EST
Ditto, I'll take 3. :P Okay, maybe just one. $20 is a no brainer purchase
considering it has gotten good reviews so far.

The article mentions that they would like to sell this in the us market for
about $50, which is a steal. Get enough public awareness, and this will outsell
the ipad and surface and anything else.

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Tablets are already Sub $60- Allwinner's $7 SOC the cause
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 11:00 PM EST
The retail price on this is said to be $70, in the
article... However Ematic, Polaroid, and Coby tablets are
already sub $70.

Allwinner developed a wholesale $7 1.2 Ghz ARM 8 SOC with a
Mali 400 GPU which includes HDMI called the Allwinner A10...
And an even cheaper version in the A13 (No HDMI or SATA)...
The Allwiner SOC is powering most of these cheap tablets.

More impressive than the tablets are Allwinner based
USB/HDMI Dongle computers and netbooks running Android. 10
inch netbooks for sub $150 (7 inch ones for under $70) and
USB/HDMI stick computers that plug into your TV for about
$70.

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Not at $70 retail
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 11:03 PM EST
They plan to retail the commercial version for $70, at least
that is what the article says.

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AAKASH 2 How a $20 tablet from India blindsides javascript
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 11:56 PM EST
That page returns pure white for me, until I turn off javascript.
Then the site warns me it might not render correctly, but it does.
Go figure...

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AAKASH 2 How a $20 tablet from India could blindside PC makers
Authored by: symbolset on Wednesday, November 14 2012 @ 06:37 AM EST

I want one too just to see what it is.

Unfortunately the $20 price is to students in India, subsidized by the government some by unspecified amount. Apparently they're selling them at retail for $70, which is still interesting. If I can get one for $70 I definitely will.

At $20 each to students I wouldn't mind subsidizing an entire classroom's students their $20 cost. What could that amount to, $500? If that's the whole cost and it comes with a portable K-12 education I think I could do that several times a year. I wouldn't mind doing that knowing I had provided 25 students the means to escape poverty, improve their lives, provide for themselves and their families.

I think there are probably several people who feel this way. Maybe some sort of Kickstarter or public campaign is in order to get this ramping to where it really should be.

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