By: bystander
I applaud these guys, and wish them well, but the no-name Chinese tabs are already sub-$50 shipped at retail, as the Baron said. How much do you think they are per unit wholesale in bulk? I would guess...
View ArticleBy: LogicalDash
I would like to see better support for mesh networking and direct tablet-tablet connections, so that tablets can exchange "packages" of data (games, videos, wikipedia pages, Kahn Academy videos...
View ArticleBy: loquacious
I keep seeing this, and it blows my mind. I always hear, "You can't just give homeless people homes.", and i wonder why not? Heck, have them share, and maybe having a place to call home will help them...
View ArticleBy: Baron Humbert von Gikkingen
A couple of months ago I received a 50$ Android tablet that I ordered through one of the Alibaba offshoots. The total price was something like 49.99$ + 12$ in shipping. Really not too bad, considering...
View ArticleBy: pompomtom
3 billion? Are you sure? The figure from TFA comes from: Six billion cell phone subscriptions are spread across five billion of the earth's seven billion people, says Suneet Tuli, CEO of Datawind,...
View ArticleBy: spock
Just when I begin to despair that MeFi comments are going the way of YouTube comments, loquacious comes along and restores a little of my faith in the Blue.
View ArticleBy: usagizero
There are 8 million unoccupied homes and just 3.5 million homeless people in the US. I keep seeing this, and it blows my mind. I always hear, "You can't just give homeless people homes.", and i wonder...
View ArticleBy: loquacious
It's like, either I and my loved ones lead very fortunate lives, or there's a part of the United States or the world with people the good Lord has shitteth upon. It's a huge mix of both, leaning...
View ArticleBy: Blazecock Pileon
The big problem Google and Amazon face with their own Android tablets is a dearth of tablet apps. If Datawind can overcome that scarcity, they will likely be successful in selling users to advertisers.
View ArticleBy: benito.strauss
Journalism numbers, But 3 billion isn't the journalism number. 50,000 is.
View ArticleBy: Bathtub Bobsled
Ah, but then again, they would need internet access to bog it down. Maybe it's the CB radios...
View ArticleBy: Bathtub Bobsled
Journalism numbers, *sigh*. 3 billion? Are you sure? I know how many people live in those countries, and how many are children, poor, or otherwise not mobile users. I find that number potentially...
View ArticleA conversation with Suneet Tuli
Gamechanger: $25 tablets, $2 mobile data plans, and zero margins–how the internet is about to gain 3 billion new users and a look inside that world's cheapest tablet computer, India's Aakash 2 -...
View ArticleBy: outlier
Datawind manufactures its own LCD screens and touch panels in a fab in Montreal So, an Indian manufacturer is finding it cheapest to have components manufactured in Canada. That's unexpected to say the...
View ArticleBy: loquacious
Something else to consider with this tablet is geopolitics being more of a driving force than economics. India isn't really a huge fan of China and China isn't super fond of India, either. This project...
View ArticleBy: Baron Humbert von Gikkingen
You're talking about Bluetooth file sharing, right? What would be "better" in this area? Ideally you would want protocols which facilitate communication within a community, with at least the...
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