Canadian company DataWind has started the online booking and pre booking of the much anticipated low cost Android tablet, Aakash. Online booking is for students’ version of the tablet and pre booking is for UbiSlate 7, the upgraded version of Aakash.
Students’ version of Aakash will be available for Rs 2,500 and will be delivered in seven days. The commercial version, UbiSlate 7 is priced at Rs 2,999. The payment mode for both the tablets is cash on delivery.
The commercial version of Aakash tablet will be powered by Android 2.3 and will have a 7 inch resistive touchscreen, Cortex A8-700 MHz processor and graphics accelerator HD video processor, 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of internal memory. Other specifications include a standard USB port, 3.5 mm audio jack, a 7 inch display with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, resistive touchscreen, GPRS and WiFi support.
“The improved version of Aakash tablet will be available in retail outlets by January end,” a spokesperson of DataWind told The Mobile Indian.
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Step 1
Visit www.aakashtablet.com and click on order now if you want to purchase the student version of Aakash tablet. If you want to place an order of upgraded version of Aakash tablet, Ubislate 7, click on pre-book.
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Step 2
For booking the student version of Aakash:
You will see a form in which you have to fill your name, last name , email, mobile no, shipping address, city , state and PIN code. These all are compulsory fields.
Apart from above mentioned fields you will also see a query field, which is not mandatory, where you can ask your question.
For pre booking UbiSlate 7:
Here also you will get a form in which you have to fill your name, last name, email, mobile no, shipping address, city, state and pin code. These all are compulsory fields. And If you have any query you can write it in the last filed.
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Step 3
In case of booking the student version of Aakash tablet you will get a booking ID and a message which will state, “You will shortly receive an email confirmation from our support team with further details.”
In case of pre booking users will get a confirmation message which will state, “The commercial version of the Akash UbiSlate 7 would be launched in early weeks of December. After the commercial launch we would get in touch with you to deliver your device as soon possible.”
As a matter of fact, the confirmation message a reader will see is factually incorrect as The mobile Indian had reported earlier the Aakash tablet will be available only by January end.