We have seen a lot of swanky tablets around the market nowadays but nobody can beat this not so swanky looking tablet from India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development for a challenging price of Rs. 1,500 or $35 only. This one is way cheaper than the $75 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) option.

This Rs.1,500 device has the form factor of a tablet and supposedly has a 7-inch touchscreen display. It is capable of browsing the web and comes with a keyboard as well. The device has got about 2GB of RAM, Wi-Fi connectivity and a USB port, which is pretty amazing at such a budget. The tablet has been developed by the government in collaboration with premier scientific institutes like the IITs & IISc.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has plans to reduce the price of this device further down to just $10. If every thing goes according to plan we would be able to see many students sporting the revolutionary device.

After the launch of Apple’s iPad engineers are working continuously to develop new and better tablets. Dell has its latest Android tablet named “Streak,” designs, much more like iPad than the Mini 5 announced.

The Mini 5 may still look same as before but this new Streak looks much like the iPad with a LCD screen around a frame from head-on view. Let’s see if Streak 5 (Mini 5) is redesigned.

According to Engadget Streak 5 will be available this summer, the Streak 7 will be available later half of this year and the Streak 10 probably in 2011.[Engadget]

Apple’s iPad tablet though attracted a lot of media but lacks notebooklike functionality which has disappointed a lot of people. The ExoPC slate has been revealed in a 8.9” form factor.

According to Engadget, the tablet PC sports a 8.9” multi-touch form factor and seems to offer a lot of the features that seem lacking in the 9.7″ iPad, though the latter was never really advertised as a tablet PC. The ExoPC will extend full browser support as well as flash through Windows 7.

The slate will have an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of DDR2 memory. It is cited to incorporate a 32GB SSD with SD expansion option. The user replaceable battery will deliver approximately four hours of battery life. Additionally, a non-multitouch prototype is currently available at $780 (approx. Rs.36,172).

The ExoPC slate with multitouch support will be there in market this March for $599 (approx. Rs.27,778).