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              It is very bad news for who have booked in advance, the price of new Akash has increased to 50$ for detailed information go through the below lines.


Revising its ambitions, and with it the price tag of the much-discussed and dissected Aakash tablet, the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is now looking at a $50 tablet with upgraded specifications, including a “capacitive” touch screen display.

The ministry had so far been insisting on a $35 price tag but has now decided to revise the upper ceiling to $50 for the new version, tentatively called Aakash 2.

PRICE HIKE TO $50:
         A proposal to manufacture the $35 Aakash tablet and the $50 Aakash 2 together is also under consideration, with a “resistive” touchscreen in the former and a capacitive one for the latter. Capacitive touchscreens work by sensing skin contact through a touching action, while “resistive” need a precise tapping action and hence work best with stylus.

FINALLY THEY HAVE DECIDED TO INCREASE THE PRICE BECAUSE PROVIDING MORE SERVICES
               EVEN THOUGH IT IS LESS COST WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER ANDROIDS.

@      “It has been decided that we can go up to $50 for Aakash 2, which will come with a capacitive screen besides a faster processor and other features. However, under no circumstances will we go beyond $50,” said a highly placed official.

The government’s tablet project has been the subject of numerous controversies with IIT-Jodhpur and Canadian firm Datawind that manufactured the device involved in conflicts over technical specifications. The Indian Express was the first to report the turf war, more specifically the IIT calling for military-style specifications in the Aakash tablet. The ministry had to intervene repeatedly to sort out the mess, and it has now decided to start afresh with Aakash 2.

Aakash was developed following a six-year project, with a Rs 4,772-lakh contract given to IIT-Jodhpur for a “low-cost access-cum-computing device”. IIT-Jodhpur’s role was limited to procuring and testing around 100,000 devices sourced through Datawind.


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