Aakash, or Ubislate 7, is a series of low-cost tablet computers produced by DataWind, all of which use the Android operating system.
[1] DataWind is a British company that produce wireless web access products, and is the makers of Ubisurfer and pocketsurfer.
[2] The company was founded in 2001 by brothers Suneet and Raja Singh Tuli, originally from Punjab.
It was contracted to make cheap tablet computers for students in India by the Ministry of Human Resource Development; it also sold them publicly as "Ubislate 7", but did not meet demand, so was criticized in the media.
[3] The Ubislate 7 series includes the following models:[4][5] All the tablets in the series are categorized as follows:[5][7] The Ubislate 7 Series Tablet has a seven-inch touchscreen with 800×480 pixel resolution [8] and uses Cortex A8 800Mhz processor (256 MB RAM) while the others have Cortex A8 1 GHz processor with 512 MB RAM.