Aakash 2: worlds cheapest tablet

Aakash is an Android-based tablet computer. The original Aakash had following configuration 7-inch resistive touch screen, ARM 11 processor, 256 MB RAM and a 2100 mAh battery. It has two USB ports.

Updated Aakash 2 has is about thrice faster with Cortex-A8 700 MHz processor. It also has a 3200 mAh battery and a capacitive touchscreen. Aakash will get also Android 4.0 update.

A review of Aakash:

Raspberry Pi: A credit card sized computer

The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It has an 700 MHz ARM11 processor, 256 MB RAM and uses SD card for storage.

It will be sold in two models.

Model A for $25
Model B for $35

Both model A and model B have the following features:

• CPU: 700 MHz ARM1176JZF-S core (ARM11 family)
• GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV
• RAM: 256 MB (SDRAM)
• Video outputs: HDMI (rev 1.3 & 1.4), raw LCD Panels via DSI
• Audio outputs: 3.5 mm jack, HDMI
• Onboard storage: SD/MMC Card
• Low-level peripherals: 8 × GPIO, UART, I²C bus, SPI bus with two chip selects
• Power source: 5 volt via MicroUSB or GPIO header

Apart from the price difference the differences include

• Model A:
• 1 USB 2.0 Port
• No Ethernet port

• Model B:
• 2 USB 2.0 Port
• 10/100 Ethernet (RJ45)

Raspberry Pi running Quake 3 game:

Introduction to Model B:

Exynos processor: Samsung Orion

Orion is just a codename of Samsung's ARM architecture based processor Exynos.  The name is a combination of two Greek words Exypnos meaning smart and Prasinos meaning Green.

First model is the Exynos 4210, which is a dual-core 1GHz processor. It will be fabricated from March 2011 using 45 nm LP process of chip manufacture.

The SoC has quad-core Mali 400 GPU. It is capable of 1080p video decode, and also support DDR3 RAM.

It will interesting to devices, especially tablets based on this application processor.