The project-work of the Aakash Tablet has been getting delayed since quite a while now. Now the Indian Government has started emphasizing on a new improved low-cost tablet which will be specially designed for the students. The MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology has posted the specs of the new proposed model of the Aakas tablet, on their website.
According to the specifications proposed by the Government: A 7 inch display screen would suffice, the tablet should weigh no more than 500 grams and should have a thickness of about .75 inches. The Android based tablet should possess at least 1 GB DDR3 SDRAM with the minimum internal storage capacity of 4 GB. The tablet will also have an option of extending the memory via a micro SD card of 32 GB.
The batteries of the tablet should be at least 3000mAh; to provide a solid backup to the students. Another interesting thing which the Government will include in the project demands from the company is that the tablet should have a dual-boot capability. The secondary boot will be of the latest version of Ubuntu.
Indian Govt. surely wants the youth of India to stay connected to the world via every possible way; hence, irrespective of the technology available in India at the moment, they want the Aakash Tablet to have all the network connectivity facilities possible, that include 2G, 3G and 4G. Some other extraordinary demands include the web browsers to include Indian languages; including Hindi, Punjabi and Tamil.
