In December a dream of many people will come true. No, it’s not a childish dream of seening Santa Clause. Actually, a lot of grown-ups in India (most of them who don’t even celebrate the Christian holiday) will have access to a tablet for less than $ 100 dollars.

The world's cheapest tablet, Aakash (meaning Sky in Sanskrit), will cost $60 and has already received 300 thousand pre-launch bookings for its commercial version. Around 10,000 tablets were supplied to government's National Mission for Education for around $40 each. The model is being freely distributed to schools and colleges in order to extend its reach. 

To book Aakash, which is focused on young people, there is no need to pay in advance. Also, the Datawind, a UK based company who makes the Tablet, has interest facilitating the internet access. “We have identified an operator for a data plan at Rs 99 a month," said Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli, to “The Times of India”. 

All the proposals are so exciting that others countries, like Mexico, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Thailand, Brazil and Bangladesh, have shown interest in taking part in a program like this.

Features

Aakash weigh 350 grams, has a touch screen of 7 inches, runs Android 2.2, uses Google and has wi-fi. The equipment can be used as electronic book, has two USB ports and 256 MB of RAM.  Many consider this to be the time of war of tablets, with Amazon, Samsung and Apple, among others, trying their best to attract the public; no doubt that Aakash’s incredible price is its best feature to put it in a good market position.