India does it again - $35 basic touchscreen tablet PC
Kiran Chaube
Jul. 23, 2010

After the 100,000 rupee ($2,127) compact Nano car, the 749 rupees ($16) water purifier and the $2,000 open-heart surgery, India went na step further, the $35 basic touchscreen tablet PC works perfect.

It looks like an iPad and the price is 1/15th the cost of American iPad. India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.

The tablet can be used for functions like word processing, web browsing and video-conferencing. It has a solar power option too — important for India's energy-starved hinterlands — though that add-on costs extra.

"This is our answer to MIT's $100 computer," human resource development minister Kapil Sibal told the Economic Times when he unveiled the device Thursday.

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