Looking through 'Aakash'

Not going deep into the introduction of Aakash tablet launched by Indian government as we all know more or less about it. Here we will talk about whether it is worth buying or not? Many of us have doubts about Aakash tablet, Doubts regarding its quality, its configuration and many more things. This is obvious as it is launched by government.

When Aakash tablet project was started the idea was to create a cheap internet access device with functionality to read ebook and watch educational/streaming video. One who uses it will be little bit unhappy with its touch response as it has resistive touch. It is expected that response of touch would be slower than capacitive display devices. Also, it has Android 2.2.2, it wouldn’t support Android Market Place. However, Java support is there. So all jar files and java applications work in it. It also supports PDF documents but it takes quite long to load the next page. Microsoft Office documents are also supported by the tablet but problem with this is same as PDF documents and office documents can only be read, it can't be edited. For document editing there is a text editor (kind of notepad on Windows OS) and it does work. It also supports mp3 audio files and video files but there is some flicker effect. Coming to USB supports, it supports all pendrives but sometimes it doesn't recognise external harddisk. One problem is when the device is goes for sleeping mode while transferring the data the SD card as well as USB Pen drive getting ejected automatically. Page loading time in internet browser is acceptable.

Keep one thing in mind that you can't compare $35 Aakash tablet with ipad. So those who have limited task like reading ebooks(PDF/office documents),watching small videos,limited data transfer using pendrives and internet browsing can go for it. Don’t forget that you can do all these work quicker that your laptop and at a far way cheaper price.

            Aakash II tablet is ready for release which may be packed with more features and enhanced speed. And unlike other tablet devices, Aakash can also be used to create computer programs, in Python, C, C++ and Scilab. So looking at your requirements you can decide that you should go for it or not. We hope that this will help you.