India to Produce $35 Tablet Computer
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Sure, your iPad inspires technolust in your friends, and your Android phone is really a pocket computer, but how much did they set you back? According to Mashable, starting next year you can get your very own tablet for the price of a few movie tickets. Probably.
"It has a 5/7/9-inch touchscreen (we don’t know whether that means there will be several versions of the device or they’re simply unsure what the actual size is, but it looks like a 7-incher to us), and, on the software side, it sports a web browser, PDF reader, office software, media player, multimedia input/output capabilities, video conferencing (it must have a camera, then) and remote device management capability — all of it open-source and Linux-based."
Even with the low price tag, which is expected to drop even lower, whether it will catch on is an open question. The One Laptop Per Child initiative produces $100 laptops, but after an initial surge in interest, buzz died down. Though maybe that's due to its decidedly youthful stylings.
(Photo credit: Glenn Fleishman; C.C. 2.0)
