Datawind Launched the Cheapest Tablet for 2,999

Bangalore: DataWind launched the much awaited Ubislate series of tablets.  Providing smartphone communication, internet access, tablet computing and multimedia entertainment, the devices also pack a powerful combination of content and applications.  Intended to help bridge the digital divide, DataWind’s new products break the affordability barriers of computers and bandwidth constraints of wireless networks to deliver internet access to anybody that can afford a simple mobile phone.

The UbiSlate tablets are the only devices in the market to offer DataWind’s UbiSurfer browser, based on 18 international patents, which can deliver internet access on traditional GPRS networks.  In India the devices will offer unlimited web-browsing using DataWind’s web delivery platform for under 100 per month on traditional mobile networks.

The UbiSlate 7+ and UbiSlate 7C models were introduced at 2,999 and 3,999.  Differentiated with a resistive screen on the UbiSlate 7+ to the four-point multi-touch projective capacitive screen on the UbiSlate 7C, both models come with embedded GPRS modems in addition to WiFi connectivity allowing ubiquitous internet access.  The 7inch screen tablets support the Android 2.3 operating system and has a powerful 800 Mhz Cortex A8 processor.  The embedded HD video co-processor delivers high quality video content making it a perfect multimedia device.

DataWind CEO, Suneet Singh Tuli said, “Over the last year, I’ve been travelling the globe, talking at the World Bank, with heads of state, at numerous universities and at global conferences, evangelizing the power of the internet to transform people’s lives.  We’ve now created a product that removes the barriers and levels the playing field.”  DataWind’s Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Raja Singh Tuli added, “Our challenge was not only to create a powerful yet low-cost device, but to truly make it useful, we had to create a technology that could deliver internet access everywhere at an affordable price.”