A big demand for the world's cheapest Tablet

Since December 14, the manufacturer data Wind took up the advance bookings for the world's cheapest surf board, Aakash, in India. In just two weeks, it has received 1.4 million pre-orders.

Today the tablet costs around $43, but the idea is that the price will eventually be pushed down to $37 and then to only $10 (!).

Aakash has a 7-inch screen and runs on Android 2.2. Under the hood sits 256 megabytes of memory and an ARM 11 processor. Apps are not downloadable via Android market place but through Getjar.

Wind data now make up reservations for an upgraded version called Ubislate 7 that is expected to be released in March later this year. To manage the production, it will launch three new factories in 2012.

- We plan to produce 75,000 units per month from April, said a spokeswoman for the company to Physorg.com.