Price is less than 3000 yen, surprisingly inexpensive tablet terminal finally starts production

The Android tablet will be released with a price of less than 10,000 yenAlthough it is a tablet market where remarkable price reduction is remarkable, it became clear that the tablet terminal realized the surprisingly low price of 3000 yen or less is about to begin production.

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According to this article, it seems that it became clear that India's leading manufacturer "HCL Technologies" will start production of tablet terminals that can be purchased for $ 35 (about 2900 yen). In production, the Indian government is planning to subsidize HCL Technologies, according to anonymous stakeholders said that it will be in January next year that 100,000 tablet terminals will be completed in the first round.

This tablet terminal is a model developed for education of students mainly, it has a touch screen of 7 to 8.9 inches, and it has functions such as movie playback, conference function using WEB camera, PDF file playback function, "Open Office" etc. Office software and so on.

Field test will be conducted in various regions in India after producing 100,000 units on a trial basis, and if the test is cleared successfully, students enrolled in 12.4 million higher education institutions in the country It is said to produce 1 million units so that they can use it.

In IndiaIn February last year we had started a project to develop an ultra low price notebook computer called "Sakshat" for about $ 20 (about 1700 yen), We released a prototype of the tablet terminal "Sakshat" of the same name in July this year, it seems that it will finally bear fruit.

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This is the prototype tablet terminal "Sakshat" released in India in July. It has a browser, multimedia player, wireless LAN, PDF file playback function, conference function using WEB camera, etc. It has specifications close to the model decided to be mass-produced this time.