Indian Government planning 10-35$ laptop for students

Kapil Sibal unveiled the device that is said to deliver on three key principles of education – access, equity and quality. While corporates weren’t keen on the concept, students and experts from IITs and IISc managed to do it.

Functionalities expected:-

- Support for video web Conferencing facility
- Multimedia content viewer for example .pdf, docx, .ods, adp, .doc, .xls, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .odt, .zip, AVCHD, AVI, AC3, etc.
- Search-able Pdf reader
- Unzip tool for unzipping zip files.
- Possibility of installing suitable firmware up-gradation.
- Computing capabilities such as Open Office , SciLab , cups (for printing support)
- Media player capable of playing streamed as well as stored media files.
- Internet browsing with flash plug-in, JavaScript, pdf plug-in java.
- Wireless communication for Audio/video I/O.
- Cloud computing option.
- Remote device management capability.
- Multimedia input output interface option (for allowing DTV, IPTv, DTH, streaming etc.)