UNION HRD Minister of India, Kapil Sibal, finally announced and launched the $ 35 “Aakash” tablet. Commercial version of this tablet will be called Datawind UbiSlate. The device is being currently manufactured by UK-based company DataWind and is going to be distributed to students for a price of approx US $ 35. Alternatively if you are a non-student buyer you will be able to buy the tablet off from shelves for US $ 60.

This 7 inch Aakash UbiSlate runs on Android 2.2 OS (Froyo) and features a 366 MHz Connexant processor, 7-inch resistive touchscreen display, 800 x 480 pixels screen resolution and 256 MB RAM. Akash Ubislate also comes with 2 GB internal flash memory, memory expansion of up to 32GB, Wi-Fi ,3.5 mm audio jack and USB 2.0 port. Commercial version of Aakash UbiSlate will also have GPRS connectivity. For future product it provided camera and call.