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This sounds like Datawind's "$35 Tablet" all over again - https://asiancorrespondent.com/2012/02/aakash-brings-a-daily-dose-of-embarrassment/ https://asiancorre

• vidyesh 11y ago
  Unlike Datawind, this doesn't seem to have announced any Government affiliation. If government has subsided any of its costs then government is in a lot of trouble as transparency is the key to democracy and nothing about such a project was ever announced.
• IkmoIkmo 11y ago
  On the contrary, it seems it's doing what the article suggested. i.e. instead of trying to be the next Samsung, doing R&D and manufacturing of your own new smartphone tech and reinventing the wheel, they're just importing low-cost (maybe ± $40) existing phones from China and subsidising them to be dirt cheap ($4). Exactly like the article you linked to suggests: > To bridge the digital divide — an avowed goal — it could have simply contracted a company in Taiwan and imported the tablets and sold it at subsidized rates to students. The cost would have been nominal — after all, the Indian government is subsidizing the cost of Aakash 1, which costs $50 to produce — and the tablets would have reached students sooner.