The
Tablets come in three models- Classpad 7, Classpad 8 and Classpad 10 and will
be available for a starting price of Rs 8,500 that goes up to Rs 14,000 for the
costliest model.
As the
name suggests, the Tablets are available in 7, 8 and 10.1inch TFT LCD capacitive
touchscreen (1024X600 pixel resolution) display sizes and they run on the
Android 2.2 (Froyo) operating system. The Android
Tablet is powered by a 1.3
GHz processor and has 512MB of RAM. The internal memory of the device is 4GB
that can be further expanded up to 32GB with a microSD card.
Classpad
has a 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera and comes with stereo speakers. On the
connectivity front, it has Wi-Fi and comes with a USB 2.0 port and a mini HDMI
port. According to the company, the Tablet will provide up to 17 hours of
music, 4.5 hours of video playback and 6 hours web browsing.
Since as of now the education system in India does not differentiate students according to their learning capabilities and instead teaches them at the same level, the company believes that the Tablet can help because the software installed in the Tablet tests the student’s problem solving capability, creativity and application of language skills and hence provides them with personalized teaching as per their learning capabilities.
Since as of now the education system in India does not differentiate students according to their learning capabilities and instead teaches them at the same level, the company believes that the Tablet can help because the software installed in the Tablet tests the student’s problem solving capability, creativity and application of language skills and hence provides them with personalized teaching as per their learning capabilities.
The
Tablet also comes equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and can help in
categorizing students as fast learners, average learners and slow learners.
Teachers can also transfer class work to the student’s Tablet, share their own
content instantly and conduct tests/ assessments with the Tablet.
Rohit
Pande, CEO, Classteacher Learning Systems said, “Available for students in
standard 3 to 12, Classpad can serve as an interactive e-reading device, with
the capability of storing dozens of books. Equipped with distinctive software
that is designed to integrate smoothly with existing school platforms, the
Tablet can be connected to the interactive whiteboards.”
Founded
in 2000 by Rohit Pande and Sameer Buti (both graduates from IIT, Delhi),
Classteacher Learning Systems offers digital classrooms solutions or smart classrooms to over 600 schools, 1 million
students and 25,000 educators across India. The company is headquartered in New
Delhi and its product offering has 85,000 modules.
The
company will make the Tablets available for the general public in the third
week of January, although customers will only be able to purchase the Tablet
online on the company’s website.
Classpad
Vs Aakash:
Purely in terms of price, Aakash is way ahead of Classpad in giving low cost Tablet as an option to a student. Even Ubislate, the upgraded version of Aakash scores better than the Tablet. However, what the Tablet loses in price, it compensates in features. Classpad has a 1.3GHz processor which is much more powerful than the processor available in both Ubislate (700MHz) and Aakash (366MHz). Additionally, Classpad’s 512MB of RAM is double of what is available in the other two Tablets.
Purely in terms of price, Aakash is way ahead of Classpad in giving low cost Tablet as an option to a student. Even Ubislate, the upgraded version of Aakash scores better than the Tablet. However, what the Tablet loses in price, it compensates in features. Classpad has a 1.3GHz processor which is much more powerful than the processor available in both Ubislate (700MHz) and Aakash (366MHz). Additionally, Classpad’s 512MB of RAM is double of what is available in the other two Tablets.
The
Tablet’s internal memory (4GB) is also double of that available in Aakash and
Ubislate, although this crosses out since all three Tablets have the option of
expanding the internal memory. Finally the Classpad Tablet has a capacitive
touchscreen with 1024×600 pixel resolution in comparison to Aakash’s resistive
touchscreen with 800×480 pixel resolution. This basically means that the
touchscreen quality is much better in Classpad since users will have to
actually press the screen for it to work on the Aakash Tablet.
So it’s
basically up to the user, whether they are willing to pay a little more for a
better featured Tablet, or they are happy to stick to the cheapest Tablet in the world.
But if
you look at the Tablet from a general perspective instead of that of a student,
the Tablet actually competes with Tablets available in the under Rs 15,000
range (since the costliest model of Classpad is priced at Rs 14,000). These
include iBall Slide (Rs 13,995), Reliance 3G tab (Rs 12,999), Beetel Teletech’s
Beetel Magiq (Rs 9,999), Beetel Magiq II (Rs 9,799) and Beetel Magiq Glide
(Rs.11,999), Mercury’s mTab (Rs 9,499), S Mobility’s MiTab (Rs 11,990), HCL’s
ME X1 (Rs 10,490) and ME AE7-A1 (Rs 10,990) and MSI’s Enjoy 7 (Rs 13,999) and
Enjoy 10 (Rs 14,999).
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