Do not confuse Microsoft Mobile with Microsoft Mobile Services

Microsoft Mobile is hardware manufacturing company located not in REDMOND but in Espoo, Finland.

That Microsoft acquired Nokia's devices and services divison is knwn although details finalized this April 2014.

Microsoft Mobile will:

• Design Develop
• Manufacture
• Distribute Mobile Phones
• Smart Phones
• Tablet Computers
• Accessories

The 'Lumia' and the low end 'ASHA(Hope in Samskruta aka Sanskrit)' are owned by Microsoft.

I am not sure if 'Asha' can compete with 'Akash' which traces its DNA to INDIA?

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/search?q=akash

In any case, I wish good luck to Microsoft Mobile.

I bought the <$50.00 UbiSlate 7Ci Tablet

I just unpacked my UbiSlate 7Ci tablet. I switched on and the 'android' logo came up rather quickly. It can be used for communications if you have a WIFI available. Getting on to WiFi was also easy, what was not easy is the WEP password which is rather long (not the fault of Ubi). It has quite a few built-in apps and more can be downloaded. It also has a port for extra memory. It is charged by a USB cable powered by the mains energy (110V). It has two browsers, Chrome and Ubi proprietary and both worked well.

Previous post here:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-tablet-under-50-can-you-believe.html

More details here:
http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-bought-50-ubislate-from-datawind.html

A tablet under $50, Can you believe?

These things can only happen in India (also in China). This tablet is going to get into the hands of all the students in India as it is also subsidized to some extent. The version to be released in early 2014 is Aakaash 4 (Aakaash means SKY in Sanskrit). The earlier versions were manufactured by Datawind of UK but there are more than 11 bidders for the new version according to Indian Web Sites.

You will find more information here,

http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2013/12/worlds-cheapest-tablet-for-25.html

But here are some pictures of some of the models.

The above picture is screen captured from this site:
http://techlions.in/2013/akash-iv-tablet-coming-soon/

 

The above is from the following site:

http://allcoolestgadgets.com/2013/07/comparison-between-low-cost-akash-tablets-akash-1-akash2-akash-3/

 

This one from the following site:

http://techfreakz.com/computers/make-way-for-akash-the-tablet/

 

 

Don't you worry, they are getting there!