The Aakash 2 tablet can three timesfaster than Aakash one and can have fifty a much more battery life. the most recent version can have to be compelled to pass a replacement quality protocol
prepared on basis of inputs received from concerning 600 students of Indian Institutes of Technology and different engineering schools.
"All problems are resolved. The a lot of improved seventy,000 Aakash tablet are going to be received from Datawind (the company supplying the tablets) by finish of January," said a senior HRD ministry official on Friday, on a daily basis when reports of the ministry deciding to place its agreement with Datawind on hold.
The HRD ministry had asked Datawind of Montreal based Suneet S Tuli to provide one lakh Aakash tablets at concerning US fifty dollars. Of the initial heap, 600 tablets got to students for testing.
The Indian Institute of Technology, Rajasthan, that had ready the prototype of Aakash cited many deficiencies within the tablet together with short battery life, the processor unable to handle multiple operations at constant time and poor image quality.
Datawind had already equipped thirty,000 tablets by the time IIT, Rajasthan report came. The ministry held-back the order and asked the corporate to boost Aakash as per the deficiencies citied by the IIT report.
Ministry sources said that company was initially reluctant to upgrade the tablet while not increasing the value. However, the corporate agreed when ministry officers threatened to cancel the order.
Tuli wasn't accessible for comments however a corporation spokesperson said the merchandise manufactured to this point has met and exceeded all the specifications, options and criteria laid out in the govt tender.
"The product road-map and future enhancements aren't 'news' and not a symptom of failure," the corporate said in a very statement.
"Not solely Aakash from Datawind however all future tablets can have minimum Aakash 2 specificians," said N K Sinha, further secretary within the HRD ministry. These enhancements included a 240 minute battery rather than one hundred eighty minutes, higher firmware and a 700 mega hertz (MHz) Cortex A8 processor rather than the 366 MHz ARM eleven processor.
The HRD ministry is anticipated to ask bids from firms to provide Aakash 2. The target is to supply a couple of million Aakash tablets to varsity students within the next few years.
Datawind has already got 2 million booking for enhanced Aakash tablet, sold beneath the brand of Ubislate, that it sought on-line booking earlier this month. The tablet is being sold at Rs 2,999, that is Rs 749 quite value of Aakash for HRD ministry.
