The company, which had been manufacturing ultra-low cost tablet, has plans to launch three variants of 4G smart phone and their price range will be less than Rs 5,000 a unit.
DataWind led the market with its share at 34.2 percent share, followed by Samsung (21 percent), Pantel (BSNL's partner) (20 percent), Micromax (10 percent) and Lenovo (4 percent), research firm CMR said in its report.
The facility is expected to start production within 90 days and generate 500 jobs in the first phase of operation, the company officials said. "Between capital investment and working capital, we will allocate Rs 100 crore for setting up a new facility.
Low-cost mobile device maker Datawind will add two more manufacturing units in the country within next six months to meet its local requirements as the company has stopped importing finished products from China.
The new range of smartphones are powered with free unlimited Internet browsing for a year on Reliance Communications (RCoM) network, Datawind President and CEO Suneet Singh Tuli told PTI.
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17,100 devices have been delivered to IIT-Bombay and paid for, to date. 29,400 units of the Aakash 2 are in transit to IIT-Bombay through their logistics company and as per the company, should be delivered in the next few days.
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India will showcase the Aakash-2 tablet at the United Nations, amid clarification by the maker of the low-cost tablet over sourcing some parts from China.
Indian-origin CEO of Datawind, the maker of India's low-cost tablet Aakash, Suneet Singh Tuli and Massachusettes Institute of Technology professor Anant Agarwal have been named by Forbes magazine among the 15 "classroom revolutionaries"
We recently had the opportunity to meet up with Mr. Suneet Singh Tuli, the CEO of Datawind, at a press event titled Clearing the Air which the
Datwind CEO, Suneet Singh Tuli has gone all public venting its anger on IIT Jodhpur over the Aakash tablet. He even on to say that the conduct by the institute
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The dust over the low cost Aakash tablet has barely settled and Reliance is likely in talks with Datawind for the new cheapest 4G tablet.
India has given the world Aakash, the world’s cheapest tablet. While the government will sell the tablet at Rs 1,750, it will be sold for Rs 2,999 commercially.