http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-india-tablet-idUSTRE7940YV20111005

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-10-04/news/30242477_1_tablet-hp-touchpad-datawind

http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/Launch-world-cheapest-tablet-yahoofinancein-1817883966.html

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/launch-of-worlds-cheapest-tablet-aakash-today-likely-to-be-sold-for-60-in-retail/articleshow/10241194.cms

thats amazing =p

News are telecasting the issue.
But in open market 60$ i.e. 3000/- is also lucrative offer. Even faster may be double like 6000/- and still cheap. But what about warranty ? and net connectivity scheme?

this tablet named 'AAKASH' flashing over all news channel.it has wifi and usb ports.it will cost 1100rs for 9th to 12th std students.

Resistive touch (instead of capacitative touch) would make using these devices pretty rough  

So that's the catch!

for $60 I am fine with resistive touch 

Just try using a cheap chinese mobile phone with resistive touch...  I bet you will hate it after a little while. 

Now I may be baised by the pleasure of using capacitative touch, that I found resistive touch unbearable (on such a "clone" phone).  I just can't imagine even someone who has never used touch devices to type in long sentences (or even urls) using resistive touch for long periods.  It may work in practice, in a "something is better than nothing" sort of way.

 

I wouldn't want to use the stylus again!!!

resistive screens do not require a stylus, you can even operate it with your fingers / nails . you bet at this price something is better than nothing for a 7.1 inch screen.

check out the latest video on NDTV

sorry to bump but pre-booking of akash tablet has just started.they are soon going to launch v2 with 700Mhz processor and capacitive touch screen
www.ubislate.com/prebook.html

anybody got one .. Test results are  nt good as per wikipedia 

after the much hyped aakash fell  hard....!! BSNL has come  up with one... by march 1 it will  be in the stores near u ....

http://in.news.yahoo.com/aakash-vs-bsnl-s-tablet.html

Wonderful news!