Akash Tablet Compressed Commercial Variant In November

Akash maker, the world is the cheapest of Tablet PC at a price of Rs.2, 250, DataWind announced Wednesday plans to launch the commercial variant of the tablet in the country in November-end. "We intend to launch the commercial version of the device somewhere in the late November-"

Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of DataWind, told IANS in the context of the implementation compressed for students for human resource development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal.

According to the fire, a commercial variant, the price would be higher than the student version, but does not reveal any details.

"It would be a bit 'higher, but highly competitive, is not available throughout the world," said Fire.

The company expects to have a customer base of about 100,000 customers a month for the commercial variant of the tablet.

"I hope to nearly 100,000 customers per month on my card that can be priced around Rs.2 0.500-3, 000"

Tuli said the capacity of the facilities of the company will increase production of Hyderabad from the current 700 units per day to around 100,000 units per month.

"We may need to increase the capacity of 100,000 units in time to come to meet demand."

The company was also scouting for an alternative plant to increase production.

"Our basic plan is to give the tab''for the Indian market first, but demand is so great that we must develop a completely new plant, and we are scouting for a place."

In response to estimate the enormous export potential, which were donated by Sibal, who says the product is not only 220 million students in India, but also for the rest of the world, Tuli said: "It is certainly a great product, but our first priority. to provide India and the world. "

In addition, the company announced a new tab, in the hope the price tag of about $ 10, using more local components.

"We should have more local components. And with the expansion of production, as we plan, we believe that the Indian component manufacturers would soon see the option and thereby reduce our prices. "

At the time, tab to consume about 35 percent of South Korea, 25 percent of China, 16 in the United States, 16 in India and the rest from around the world.

At the same time, senior company officials told IANS that the version of the basic units of student co-telecom service provider Aircel, which would provide SIM cards which can then be used to access the Internet via the 3G network.

"We tied with Aircel for the product. They will give you the network to access the 3G Internet service."