can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

want!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20011536-1.html


bun

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

It has 2GB of RAM :O. for $35 :O
I would buy these tablets by the bulk load and sell off the SODIMMS on ebay :) Then the rest part by part and be rich thanks to Indians.

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

A $35 tablet? I'd find that very hard to swallow.

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

I remember that there have a news that India claims they could make a $10 netbook.. Ofcoz we can not see any follow up happending.. I guess it will be the same.

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Yeah...no.

One person's typo/mistake gets blogged, and re-blogged and etc.
Clearly it's a 2gigs of flash memory (which is cheap). not 2gigs of RAM. geesh.

Oh and I predict a bit lower than $70 when it's all said and done.

Yeah I know that sucks.

Furthermore, clearly it's an ARM device, meaning it wouldn't be a stick of RAM, but rather at best modules soldered directly on the board, and at worst embedded deep in the motherboard.

Seeing as how you can't find (with few exceptions) a embedded device with more than 256MB of RAM, the person reporting 2GB is clueless.

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

cuz its too big

XD

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

If you continue to read near the end of the article they sate "This is just a prototype," education expert Zubin Malhotra told Newsxlive. "We need to find people who will be able to manufacture these devices at these price points and continue to develop them going forward." Highly unlikely that a company will be able to manufacture this product by the masses for that low of a price, very mileading.

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

I don't see what the difference is between that article and me saying "I will sell $2 cars! I'm just looking for someone to make them for that price."

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

Well lets give them our best and hope that they can do it because it would be great for hundreds of children to have a computer to learn on in class.

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

Uh, no. I do not think it is supposed to be swallow :)

bun

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

Someone's bound to see a money spinning loophole and p*ss on the bonfire.

Once production starts, which would undoubtedly have to be outsourced, and demand for the device increases, taking with it the demand for components, extra workforce staff and shipping/distribution costs, the cost to the end user must surely rise dramatically.

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

My immediate thought to the title was the OLPC netbook and indeed it is mentioned in the article. It's part publicity by shock.

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

Well, the OLPC did not really succeed (99$ PC etc), but it does bring the price of laptop down and started the idea of netbook, at least I would credit to. Maybe the $35 tablet is a publicity shot, but there are already several tablet/wifi in the neigborhood of $70 - $99 at dealextreme, and old NIT are also selling under $50 in ebay. I think the gini is out.... literally


bun

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

Well, but India IS producing and selling incredibly cheap new cars. This is one of the things happening in the world that we don't understand very well. People are making things very cheaply for people who don't have much money. This is one thing that Nokia DOES seem tuned in to.

Re: can someone help me to get one of these, a $35 tablet?
 

Nokia 'C' (cheap?) series phones seem to cater to such audience.

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I for one am looking forward to this. Android based disposable tablet. I will buy 10 on release if they can maintain the price point. That way I can have a little web browser in every room of the house (and at that price point, probably every cupboard too).