On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcrishna@radiophony.com wrote:
"Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the best our students deserve. I think not."
Some confusion, I think, about what constitutes value for money. A badly put together device that has every possibility of failing, and does not have sufficient battery life to get through the school day, is not value, it's a waste. Small comfort that it's a waste of 3k instead of 37k.
Looks like the poor response during application switching off and/or other responses is due to the lack of processing power rather than the touch screen or the application itself.
Probably, some small footprint (memory, screen) apps are installed in it that does not give user satisfaction.
Overall, for just 3K , it seems worth buying considering its functionality like internet connectivity, phone calling, various apps etc.. Maybe I will go for one more as standby and still spend just 6k.
ipad and other things could be great but the price range is also great. A decent netbook costs just about 15k and does almost everything that ipad does.
for 3k, it looks value for money for whatever it is offering. Adding offline wikipedia will enhance that value :-)
Regards -Sudhanwa