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Check out India's new $66 tablet

I made the mistake of buying a ZPad early on as it was a very inexpensive tablet with a resistive touch screen. I sold it on Craig's list as it to me was a complete waste of money. Even though it cost only $100, it was slow, not responsive to a light touch you had to press fairly hard on the screen for it to recognize your touch. I was totally dissatisfied. Perhaps someone else may not be. I spent more money and purchased an ASUS Eee Pad which is an excellent tablet. I use it all the time. Tablets so far seem to fall into that, "you get what you pay for" category. So don't expect much when you pay so little. Also, as far as support, if it's manufactured over seas, if there is a problem, chances are you will be shipping at your own expense, and that is not cheap.

A lot of people felt the same way about the $47 Aakash tablet. Lets see how the BSNL tablets do. But yes techies here also feel that there is only so much you can get out of a low-cost device. But experts are more critical than lots of consumers here in India--especially those who can't afford any other device and probably would not have bought one otherwise. Anyway, it could be argued that if the government is backing Aakash for students--it should meet a certain standard. Anyway, check out this $100 tablet that we've just written about. It offers free educational content...http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/india-to-get-a-100-tablet-with-free-educational-content/4561http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/india-to-get-a-100-tablet-with-free-educational-content/4561

Just sayin'.

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/india-to-get-a-100-tablet-with-free-educational-content/4561?tag=btxcsim --should work

Well, if this is the start that is needed, why the heck not?

So many kids worldwide with no access to information -- if the different states here in the US and elsewhere can make wifi access freely available, then putting these into the hands of the kids will be pretty amazing. The US is apparently releasing new bandwidth and some of that has greater carrying capacity.

We have to start somewhere. And I still have a Mac Plus in the garage with a 20 MEG hard drive, along with the new external drive to read a second external disk. WOW, that was a pretty amazing improvement over the old first model...

I agree with Starting Somewhere. We have to start somewhere and the internet opens doors, so these are good initiatives. Nice to know that they are affordable. The tablets should also be accessible where needed.

i am glad to read that the tablet's price getting less expensive. so there will be many people around the world use this technology to improve their live. and also by using tablet with high capabilities then we will use less material compare to the old pc.
we like to have opportunity to make the tablet in my country, indonesia, many poor students will get the advantages. so, go foward with cheap tablet.

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