Aakash, UbiSlate 7+ Sold Out

Bookings closed for now.

Jayesh Limaye
05th Jan, 2012

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After an overwhelming response, the Aakash tablet has been officially sold out. Its website mentions that booking for the tablet has been closed, while its successor, the upgraded UbiSlate7+, has been sold out till February. You can pre-book the latter only from March.

Manufacturer Datawind is already in the process of establishing new manufacturing units to cope up with the increasing demand. The new units are expected to be functional by April this year. According to the company CEO Sunil Tuli, a supply of 70,000 to 75,000 units per day will be possible after April.

The Aakash costs just Rs 2500, making it the cheapest Android tablet PC in the world, while the UbiSlate 7+, scheduled to launch in mid-January, costs Rs 3000. The low cost is the primary driving factor for the extreme demand for these devices in a price-sensitive market like India.

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Today is June 8, 2012 and Tulli Pulli unable to deliver those priority upfront payment commercial deliveries of UbiSlate 7+. I had paid Rs2999 on Feb 4, 2012 and yet get email that deliveries have started and I will get one "soon". All crap. Tulli has to first deliver 100,000 units to IIT, Mumbai after prototypes have been tested by IIT, Mumbai. Such a large number of units will take some months to be executed before commercial deliveries start. I had asked for refund on May 30 by giving all details to refund at datawind dot com, but Tulli Pulli just cares a hang as the suckered priority delivery payments collected is being used as working capital to complete government tender first. Datawind Innovations is cheat personified in India with no captive production as yet after closure of business with Quad Electronics, Hyderabad.

Submitted by gspal (not verified) on Fri, 08/06/2012 - 11:06

Did you get your money back finally?

Submitted by MA on Thu, 16/08/2012 - 13:39

You will see AAKASH when you go to AAKASH. Don't rely on this. Lot of other companies like HCL, Micromax, Karbon etc. have already started selling low price tablets. We better go for those.

Submitted by Dada (not verified) on Tue, 09/10/2012 - 23:06