Will Aakash 4 Bring Home The Bacon?

The introduction of Aakash tablet gave a ray of hope to the people who really aspired for an affordable tablet, however the high price tag always deterred them from owning one. The Indian government took an impossible mission on hand and challenged global manufacturers to deliver on it.  The initiative aimed at providing low cost tablet to expand the learning opportunities of children in the developing world. While the biggies of the industry shied away from the price point, Datawind a relatively small technology company focusing on low cost mobile access devices took up the challenge.

Datawind secured the tender for manufacturing the low-cost tab. Although, the Aakash tab was criticized over shipping delays, its launch was one of the biggest hype India created all over the globe. Within few days of launch, its demand reached so high that its commercial version Ubislate 7 was sold out a month before it was launched. The record breaking bookings and success of the first version led to the introduction of its next version-Aakash 2 (Ubislate 7+) which created a history in terms of demand. 

Now, the question is will the upcoming Aakash 4 bring home the bacon?  There are many other competitors in the race such as Dell, Acer, Datawind, HP, Microsoft, etc. who had shown interest in developing Aakash-4. According to the latest updates, its spec sheet is incredible in accordance with such a low price tag.

Market rumours suggest that Akash4 will be priced at just under Rs 4,000, the upcoming tab will run on Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean) or above Dual bootable (Latest Ubuntu distro) powered by a quad-core processor with 1GB RAM, 4 GB Memory expandable up to 32GB. It will offer you 7” scratch-resistant capacitive touch display 800×480 resolutions with 16 bit color depth or 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The tab will support document formats like DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP and ODS, and video formats like MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI and 3GP. 

It is a known fact that the low-priced tablet market has changed since the introduction of cheapest tablets in the world and it remains to be seen whether people can bet on Aakash 4. Due to its updated spec sheet and amazingly cheap price tag, it is expected that everyone would rush to Book Tablets.For details visit http://www.ubislate.com/