[dundee] India to produce $35 tablets for students

[gordon dunlop]

On 23 July 2010 11:53, gordon dunlop <zubenel at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> It has just been announced that India will produce Linux tablets/computers
> for students at a cost of $35 with the intention of reducing this cost to
> $20 and then down to $10. It looks like they will be manufactured in Taiwan,
> firstly for their educational structure, and then for commercial purposes.
> Wow! This is amazing if they can deliver what they are promising. I can see
> other hardware companies in the next twelve months trying to produce their
> own products to emulate this, maybe in the sub $100 range, if not in the sub
> $50 dollar range as the global market for this would be huge.
>
>  http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359722/india-unveils-35-computer-for-students
>
> An update to this with a photo, video  and more info, thanks to Danishka
Navin, a Fedora Sri Lanka Ambassador and language maintainer  for Fedora
Sinhala, Gnome, KDE & Open Office.


http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2010/07/100-olpc-or-35-tabletpc-from-india.html


> Gordon
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