India’s $35 Android Tablet Actually $50, Still A Crummy Tablet

Remember that $35 Android tablet that was going to change the world of technology forever or something like that? Welp, we’ve gotten another look at it thanks to NDTV and it’s actually now more expensive with less features. The tablet will now cost $50 after figuring in transportation and warranty costs. Still cheap, but you always have to consider what you’re getting inside.

We have a 7 inch capacitive screen, a 366MHz processor with a dedicated HD video processor, 2 full-sized USB ports and a microSD card slot. We also imagine there’s some form of WiFi in here somewhere. For what its worth, that video processor supposedly plays 1080p HD YouTube videos smoothly.

With its 2,100 mAh battery, you can only muster about about 1.5-2 hours watching that YouTube video, or 3 hours during regular use. This one has Android 2.2, but considering we can’t even get a single-core 1GHz processor inside we’re not even mad at that.

Not quite the tablet we’d want to get our hands on but we’re sure there is a market somewhere in India for these. We can’t imagine schools would be opposed to picking these up to “advance” their teaching tools. In any case, this is probably one cheap Android you’ll forget about within the next 24 hours or so. [NDTV]

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