New Delhi: "$ 35" computer, launched last year is the world's cheapest tablet has run into problems, and the companies invited to tender again to the device after complaints of poor performance hiccups and rolling out a pilot model.
Government is a major achievement Aakash tablet frugal engineering to end the digital divide in the country where only 1 in every 10 of its 1.2 billion people use the internet.
Products such as Apple Inc. 's iPad is achievable, even many of the rapidly growing middle class. Locally assembled machine is a cost of about $ 50 for students and was sold by the Government of $ 35.
But only 10,000 units have been shipped since October. Link to manufacturer DataWind and government research institute in the middle of sour milk complaints from users, the processor is too slow, battery life is short and difficult to use resistive touch screen.
Human Resource Development Ministry is due to launch a new offering in the next few weeks to look for partners to build a tablet - a process that does not fall DataWind.
"It's not automatic that because you have done Phase 1 Phase 2," said a senior official of the Ministry of direct knowledge of the project.
Datawind has won the contract last year to 100,000 units, and the government thought it would probably require an additional 1 million units in the second stage of production. But it had lost its first mover advantage and would recreate the competition the official said.
"It seems that sufficient interest has been created in order to obtain better descriptions of the same or lower price," added the official, who declined to be named.
A small London-based company, developed DataWind tablet Indian Institute of Technology. The company said that the institute has become a description of last year and now wanted a device that could meet the durability requirement of the U.S. military as a rock-bottom price.
"Among other things, a device that requires a continuous 4 inches of rain per hour," DataWind CEO Suneet Singh told Reuters.
"We are against this project and has been on hold since then, we are working with the Ministry to get that resolved" Singh said after a meeting with ministry officials in New Delhi on Tuesday.
India has a reputation for creating affordable products that are easy to use and durable enough to handle your tough environment - from the Nano, Tata Motors $ 2000 Car of generic pharmaceuticals.
But despite the fact that the leading software and IT services to Indian trails fellow BRIC countries Brazil, Russia and China to drive the masses to get connected to the Internet and cell phones, a report on risk analysis firm Maplecroft said last year.
The number of Internet users grew 15 times between 2000 and 2010 in India, according to another report. Still, just 8 percent of Indians have access. This compares with nearly 40 percent in China.
Aakash is aimed at students through digital learning platform for the government to distribute electronic books and courses.
DataWind says he has received tens of thousands of orders per day commercial version of the tablet with a built-in GPRS modem, which is scheduled to launch in 2999 rupees per month ($ 61).
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