World’s cheapest tablet Aakash is getting good response and going to rule this new year. It has broken many sales booking records in India. According to reports, 14 lakh units have been booked in just two weeks after it was put up for sale online for Rs 2,500 a piece.
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The vendor company datawind has decided to set 3 more manufacturing units in Cochin, Noida and Hyderabad – in the first half of 2012 to assemble the tablet. Currently it has only one manufacturing unit in Hyderabad, with its vendor Quad, which makes the LCD panel for the tablet. But this demand needs more units to establish soon.
“We never expected such a high response from both corporate and individual buyers. We plan to supply 70,000-75,000 units per day once the factories are in place by April,” Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO, Datawind told.
Although this tablet has resistive touch and slow processor, this is getting 1 lakh order a day after it has put for online booking. Its cost is the mauin reason for this great response from the users.
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As compared to Apple’s iPad which sold about 10 lakh iPads in 28 days and 30 lakh in 80 days of its launch in April 2010, Aakash is getting better response. If we talk about the cost, iPad costs Rs 29,500 which is about 12 times costlier than Aakash.
