Buoyed by the achievement of completing 100,000 Aakash low-cost computing access devices for IIT-Bombay, Datawind the maker of Aakash tablets has now said that it is ready with the upgraded version of Aakash 2 with tentative price of Rs. 2500 for supply of ten lakh devices.
 
Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli told media persons on Friday that contrary to the belief that it delayed the supply of Aakash 2 tablets the company in fact done that a month earlier.
  
He said that the deadline for that was June 6, while the company has achieved the feat by May.
 
According to Datawind recommendations the upgraded Aakash 3 tablets as suggested by the company website has a 7-inch multi-touch capacitive touchscreen with 800 x 480 pixels resolution. It runs runs on Android 4.0.4 (v4.1 update due in June-end), and is powered by 1GHz Cortex A8 processor.

In March Datawind, got flak for its incapability of supplying adequate number of Aakash 2 tablets because of delay in the production. Later the company clarified it by saying that the delay  happened due to  verification process that customs needed to conduct on the Exemption Certificates for certain components issued by IIT-Bombay.

DataWind was selected for the project in an open tender for the supply of Aakash1 devices at $49.98. It was subsequently modified to 98,000 Aakash2 devices and 2,000 devices with DataWind’s recommendations for Aakash3, all at a price of Rs.2,263 (currently $41.61).

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