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This seems to be a hands on review of a pre-production model

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/18/hands-on-with-the-35-aakas...

Quite positive.

I also believe that GPRS connectivity will be offered for R98 a month (about USD 1.80) for 2GB.

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> "Heck, many textbooks cost more then these mini tablets."

More like "all textbooks".

4GB would fit a lot of hypertext. Now, if they could create a "teacher's" version with 16GB, you could have multicast multimedia sharing over wifi, which would enable classrooms to use video content with only a fraction of expense in Flash RAM.

Another option is to use p2p as a storage mechanism. And since the storage capacity would be bigger, it could enable personalized videos.

Sure, if you could ensure enough redundancy. But I wouldn't have enough confidence in such a system to preclude failure in the event of too many students absent.

HTML is the future of textbooks.

I'm not advocating video over HTML. I'm suggesting a cost effective way of providing video when it's needed.

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