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Aakash Sees Record Orders At Tech Exhibition In Nepal
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The upgraded version of Aakash, Ubislate 7+, has received over 20,000 bookings in just four days.
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Monday, January 30, 2012:
The updated version of world's cheapest tablet device Aakash has been put on display at the ongoing CAN Info-tech 2012 technology exhibition in Nepal. Thousands of visitors have showed interest in the device at the exhibition.
More than 20,000 bookings have been made for the Ubislate 7+ in the past four days of the six-day exhibition. The Ubislate 7+ is set to be launched in India next month.
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Vivek Khetan of Gizmos Nepal, the sole distributors of Aakash in Nepal, said, “We had a purchase order of around 10,000 units. But bookings at the exhibition and online have been over double that figure.”
Even though there is a wait period of two months for the delivery of the tablet, potential customers seem to be in no hurry. The tablets costs NRs 6,000 in Nepal and is priced at half the rate of its nearest competitor.
The tablet that is being promoted by the Indian Government is aimed specifically at students. But in Nepal, the orders for the DataWind tablet have come from all sections.
Khetan said that they have got an order for 1,000 units from a restaurant chain. "And besides students, professionals and businessmen, many inquiries have come from rural areas and other regions for dealerships,” he said.
The last day of the exhibition is 31 January and first preference for the device would be given to bookings made at the stall in the exhibition, states an HT report. The online bookings would continue even after the exhibition.
Aakash was launched in October last year and the online bookings of the device started in December, which saw 1.4 million orders in just two weeks. The students can avail the tablet from their college at just Rs 1,500. The cost of Ubislate 7+ is Rs 2,999.
The updated version of the device will cost Rs 750 more in Nepal and is powered by a better processor. It will also have a bigger battery, a new version of Android operating system, Wi-Fi and GPRS support, HD video and access to over 1,50,000 applications.
Upasana Rajpal, EFYTIMES News Network
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