The Minister of Human Resource Development Dr.D.Purandeswari replied in present session of Lok Sabha regarding supply of Low Cost Tablet Aakash to students which was proposed Under the National Mission on Education through Information Communication Technology (NMEICT) scheme, a Low Cost-Access-cum-Computing Device (LCAD) named Aakash was launched on 5th October, 2011.
As
per information given by the Minister IIT, Rajsathan which handled this
project procured 1,00,000 tablets in the first phase for supply to
Higher Technical Education Institutions.
After
the launch of this project, feedback were received from the users of
these tablets. It revealed the machine needed improvement in the
following aspects.
- heating of the device
- need for longer battery life
- need for capacitive instead of resistive touch screen
- need for better processor etc.
The
matter was taken up with the vendor and he agreed to make changes
including upgrading the processor from 366 MHz Arm 11 based processor to
700 MHz Arm Cortex A8 processor,
improving firmware, replacing the battery of 2100 mAH with a battery of
3200 mAH capacity and replacement ofresistive touch screen with
capacitive one with no enhancement in cost. As no payment was made by
IIT Rajasthan to the vendor, hence, no loss has been incurred to the
Government.
Courtesy : http://www.gconnect.in/
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