Aakash Tablet maker Datawind has launched two new low cost commercial Android tablets, Ubislate 7+ and Ubislate 7C. Content Partnerships: Along with the new tablet announcement, Datawind announced content partnerships with The Indian Express Group and Yahoo. According to this agreement, Ubislate 7+ and Ubislate 7C will come preloaded with the Indian Express news app, and customers of these new tablets will receive a 50 percent discount on annual subscription for The Indian Express and The Financial Express. The tablets will also be preloaded with Yahoo! Cricket and the Yahoo! Mail app and Yahoo! India Homepage will be the default browser homepage for Ubislate 7+. Earlier this week, Datawind had partneredwith GetJar, the independent app store, to pre-install the GetJar app store on all Datawind tablets, including Aakash and UbiSlate. Another interesting tie-up is with Reverie Technologies which had previously developed an Indic language framework for digital platforms including mobile phones, Digital TV and PCs. This tie-up will allow the new Ubislate tablets to support over a dozen indian languages including hindi, marathi, tamil, and punjabi/gurmukhi among others. Other tie-ups include: - Aircel ,to offer an unlimited GPRS Internet plan at Rs 98 per month for the Ubislate tablets. - InMobi to help deliver applications for free to consumers. We feel that this would be through an ad-supported app download model. - Mango Learning solutions for game based educational modules, interactive smart books and the full CBSE curriculum. - RKS Learning Private Ltd for TestBag, a testing and e-assessment solution. - Intelligaia finger tracing apps to teach letter writing for toddlers - Pixatel for…
