The advanced version of low cost tablet Aakash was launched by
President Pranab Mukherjee on 11th of nov.2012 in New Delhi.
The new version ‘Aakash 2’, which will be made available to
students of engineering colleges and universities and it comes at a very
low price of just Rs 1,130.It is powered by a processor running at 1 GHz, having
512 MB, a 7-inch capacitative touch screen and a battery working for three
hours for normal operations.
The new version of
the tablet will also be made available to 10,000 teachers to allow live video
interaction with students. It has been developed under the aegis of IIT Bombay
with the active support of C-DAC. Datawind is rolling out the device.
Union Minister of Human Resource Development MM Pallam Raju,
and Ministers of State for Human Resource Development Jitin Prasada and Shashi
Tharoor were present on the occasion.
