On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Vickram Crishna
<vvcrishna(a)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