The Aakash would cater to many more people, but it is not for sale yet.
The Datawind-built Aakash 2 is finally a reality, launching in India on the nation's National Education Day.
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Former Indian opener Aakash Chopra believes India "lacked a roadmap" for this marquee series, simply not preparing well enough.
During the celebration, the President launched the Aakash 2 tablets by a click beamed to 15, 000 teachers connected on-line.
Unlike the One Laptop Per Child Project, the Aakash does not feature any sunlight-readable displays, or any other cutting-edge, MIT-developed technology.
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Batsmen Yuvraj Singh, Aakash Chopra and Mohammad Kaif have all been overlooked.
Students display Aakash, which means sky, dubbed the world's cheapest tablet computer, after its launching ceremony in New Delhi October 5, 2011.
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Internally, the Aakash uses a single-core ARM Cortex-A8 running at 800 MHz, an video co-processor to provide HD video, and 256 MB of RAM.
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The Education Ministry admits the Aakash is not perfect, but it says it will improve on its product as it gets feedback from students.
The original Aakash only came with a 7-inch resistive touchscreen.
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McMillan, also returning to side after being dropped for Sri Lanka due to poor form, got out to a brilliant reflex catch by debutant Aakash Chopra at forward short-leg.
Those in India's Education Ministry say they dream of a day when students around the world are able to get their hands on an Aakash computer, because of its affordability.
Still, the Aakash represents the good side of globalism.
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Like the OLPC, which has fallen short of its initial goals and only delivered 2.4 million laptops to school children worldwide in the last 7 years, the Aakash project has had its share of problems.
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But in an article last week, New York Times correspondent Pamposh Raina reports that the Aakash not only appears to be back on track, but is now targeted to be even less expensive and with better hardware than before.
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