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100 years ago, nothing supports H.264 in hardware either, yet here it is. I know, lets waste money making hardware for codecs that are not standards yet!

Well HEVC decoding does have hardware support and is rolling out to consumer devices right now. The shift to 4K which requires new hardware for everybody is probably the only chance at making a new standard, otherwise you'll have a non-trivial number of consumers with non-VP9 devices which means HEVC will be the de facto standard. Google has made a lot of bluster about their codec before, but YouTube still serves up video in H264. Unless they get really serious about pushing VP9 in hardware and very soon, history will repeat itself with HEVC/VP9.

OK, maybe it's real, but maybe not necessarily in the way the Indian government claims, unless they bought/stole the design. It also looks like the Indian government is also subsidizing 25% of the manufacturing cost:

http://androidos.in/2010/09/the-truth-about-35-android-tablet-from-indian-government/

Someone else pointed out that it's a resistive touch screen, which is a technology that's at least a couple decades old. I wouldn't be surprised if they used the cheapest TN display they could find.

Capactitive touchscreens were invented by CERN in 1977. So I guess that makes them obsolete too, eh? ;-)

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Interesting link.

You have to suspect it as much.
India has almost no manufacturing nor the infrastructure (the west has a hidden agenda to promote India as a shining example of the triumph and success of democracy over the actually truly successful communist-esque China).
I mean com'on, when was the last time you bought anything hightech that was made in India.

Uhm, the production cost of what is essentially a "smartphone without a phone" is in no way related to the production cost of an actual tablet computer using note/netbook-caliber components, add in the Gov't subsidies and the reality that this is a $100 chinese product that is apparently being bought on the cheap due to a lack of interest in the market (read "they are being dumped").

Thanks jigsawhacker for the link: http://androidos.in/2010/09/the-truth-about-35-android-tablet-from-indian-government/

It seem to me, that they are taking success-concepts from the western world and integrate them into their culture.

Actually the source might not be 'western' but Chinese - see comment lower down "The Truth about $35 Android Tablet from Indian Gov" with story from androidos.in.

OK, maybe it's real, but maybe not necessarily in the way the Indian government claims, unless they bought/stole the design. It also looks like the Indian government is also subsidizing 25% of the manufacturing cost:

http://androidos.in/2010/09/the-truth-about-35-android-tablet-from-indian-government/

Someone else pointed out that it's a resistive touch screen, which is a technology that's at least a couple decades old. I wouldn't be surprised if they used the cheapest TN display they could find.

http://androidos.in/2010/09/the-truth-about-35-android-tablet-from-indian-government/

This community is comprised of people who have already done all the thinking they need to do;

You know, I was just about to post a reply to this, then a committed a cardinal sin and thought about it.

In an effort to drag a shred of on-topicness to this though, has anyone seen any proper specs on this device?

The best I've found so far is

According to the details,the tablet will come in three versions of 5, 7, and 9 inches display. It will be packed with 2 GB RAM memory, wi-fi connectivity, USB port and powered by a 2-watt system to suit poor power supply areas.

but I'm sure there is more out there. That info was found at http://androidos.in/2010/07/35-android-tablet-is-here-in-india-price-can-go-down-to-10/, for the sake of interest.

Better pictures here:

http://androidos.in/2010/07/35-android-tablet-is-here-in-india-price-can-go-down-to-10/