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India's $35 7-Inch Android Tablet To Hit In January

Posted by samzenpus on from the little-machine-little-price dept.

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."

3 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Re:2GB Ram? by lxt · · Score: 5, Informative

    The submission is wrong. It's flash memory, not RAM. The TFA even says so.

  2. The Truth about $35 Android Tablet from Indian Gov by jigsawhacker · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  3. Re:2GB Ram? by james_a_craig · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.