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India's $35 7-Inch Android Tablet To Hit In January
indogiree writes "Engadget reports that India has just awarded the manufacturing contract to HCL Technologies. The first shipment will supposedly only contain the 7-inch model and is set to arrive on January 10. It's unclear if the $35 price has stuck or whether India's been successful in plans to drive the price down to $10 eventually with the help of large orders and government subsidies. HCL Technologies plans to initially produce 100,000 units. Among the key features of this India-based tablet include 2GB of RAM, web-conferencing, PDF reader, unzip, WiFi, camera and USB connectivity."
The submission is wrong. It's flash memory, not RAM. The TFA even says so.
Any Android tablet with 2GB of ram would be very interesting, but of course this this has 2GB of storage not ram.
Never underestimate the dark side of the Source
The base model is $3000, its only if you want the model with AC,Airbags,etc that you pay $6000
1 Gb is 1 gigaBIT. 2 GB is 2 gigaBYTES. So, to make 2 GBs, you need 16 of those $2 chips, not two. So, ~$32 for 2 GB of RAM, just for the chips. 2 GB DIMMs/SoDIMMs are in $35-$40 range on the site you posted.
http://androidos.in/2010/09/the-truth-about-35-android-tablet-from-indian-government/
Flash most definitely is not "RAM". It can not be arbitrarily written.
Actually, no it's not. Flash can't be written to randomly; it needs a block erase cycle first (and generally a block is fairly large; we're not talking one or two bytes here). Technically you can zero bits without an erase, but not set them to 1 (erasing sets everything to 1).
This is why there's a distinction between EEPROM, FLASH, and RAM.
You are comparing an mp3 player to a phone.
Wasn't a problem with the brakes. Was a problem with the floor mats.
Wasn't a problem with either. Was a problem with the driver
As anyone in computer support knows, the most common error code is "ID-10T".
If you prefer, a "layer-8" problem.
Could be known in this case as "PICNIC" (here meaning Problem In Chair, Not In Car).
The automotive technician version: "loose nut between the steering wheel and the seat"
I could almost go on about this all day.
It actually passed the EU standards http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/video-nano-passes-european-crash-test/ which are slightly more stringent than US standards. Oh BTW, the Yugo did pass those pesky US standards, LOL
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