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Meanwhile, the IIT team is moving ahead with more advanced Aakash iterations. As with the first Aakash, the team will need to offer the design to the most appropriate manufacturing bidder. Though, Gupta estimates that offering up and finding a bidder for their tender takes a minimum of three months, even before manufacturing begins. Though IIT engineers have offloaded a significant amount of their production challenge to manufacturing partners, they continue to stay connected to the project.
In the days leading up to the original Aakash launch, students at IIT tested the first few units, identifying and reporting glitches sometimes with suggested solutions for DataWind to fix. Sivansh, an electrical engineering major in his fourth year, tells Fast Company they found, for example, that the way DataWind had built the device caused the screen and OS to freeze when a microSD card was inserted into the tablet.
After feedback from the IIT students, DataWind changed their design so that this is no longer the case. Post-pilot launch, one IIT team is working on designing Android apps that will be free to download.
The team leaders are also nurturing innovation on the hardware front. A group of students, Sivansh included, are working on creating a new chip that would be both cheap and powerful. Their goal is for future versions of the tablet will carry this chip, Gupta says.
He said the government planned to buy , of the tablets. It hopes to distribute 10 million of the devices to students over the next few years. Aakash will end that digital divide," Mr Sibal said. It is due to be assembled in India, at DataWind's new production centre in the southern city of Hyderabad. The company says it will also offer a commercial version of the tablet, called UbiSlate.
Mr Sibal says the device will enhance learning in India. Experts say it does have the potential to make a huge difference to the country's education, particularly in rural areas where schools and students do not have access to libraries and up-to-date information.
But critics say it is too early to say how the Aakash will be received as most cheap tablets in the past have turned out to be painfully slow.
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