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Indian Minister presented a prototype of a 25-euro-Tablets

The price of the Indian government still hopes to push below 10. One has but to date no hardware pavers for pupils of the said device. India’s model would be cheaper than the originally planned $ 100 laptop OLPC.

The Indian government has unveiled a prototype of a tablet computer, which costs only 1500 rupees or the equivalent of just under 25. It is still in development, so the price of the final product could fall even more, it said.

Development Minister Kapil Sibal was the affordable touch screen device in a project can be in New Delhi, where it comes to students across the country provide a better education. The device can be equipped with solar panels as needed, so that it works well in rural India, where there are few power outlets.

The computer has a Linux operating system and offers all the basic functions of a Tablet computer: browsers, software for reading PDF files, wireless LAN and even video conferencing equipment. It is equipped with 2 GB of RAM and a USB port, but has no hard drive. The data is stored on a memory card. According to the Government, the device could have next year to students from elementary school on up are distributed to university students.

Students from several faculties of the Indian Institute of Technology have partnered to prepare various Boards of the savings-Tablet. At the request of the competent ministry they are working on it, the price for the unit to $ 20 (15.50), or even to reduce to $ 10 (7.75).

For the so far unnamed device Minister Sibal, India’s response to the project "One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte. The OLPC project aims to enable children in developing laptops for training purposes.

Originally, for the OLPC computer costs per unit of $ 100 (around 77) is provided. Then they cost but twice. Marvell Technologies in May 2010 but announced to build a machine for OLPC, under the name XO-3, which costs $ 100.

The Cheap Tablet from India would make a better price far. But there are obstacles: Education expert Zubin Malhotra told Newsxlive: "We still need someone who manufacture these devices at this price and they can also develop."

The unit is part of a larger initiative to improve India’s education system with the help of technology. Nearly 8500 universities in the country have received according to the Ministry of Human Resource Development now have broadband access. Approximately 500 web-based courses and videos on Youtube and other online portals available for general use.

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The Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Billigtablet shows a prototype (Picture: AFP Photo / STR, via News.com).