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But what do you do with a $35 tablet with WiFi when there is no electricity, let alone internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_electrification#India



The first step is to offer them to university students , they probably have WIFI and electricity.

And yes, rural electrification is a huge challenge, but it's much easier to deploy a solar panel per school , to power some tens/hundreds of low power tablets.


They run on battery, no?

My bad. Downvote me to oblivion.


In a video about this tablet, the researcher behind it (or so I believe) said the goal is to have power-consumption be low enough to ultimately allow it to be solar-charged.




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