India is apparently ready to start shipping a tablet computer for about €27 or £23. All we know is it will run Google's mobile phone Android operating system and have a seven-inch screen.
It's designed exclusively for the education market which might ease the fears of other tablet manufacturers. However, the first of what have become known as "netbooks" were developed by Asus just to be used in schools. Then everybody wanted one.
The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) championed by MIT's Nicholas Negroponte was sold in pairs for a while, one for a wealthy Western consumer, one donated to a child from a developing country. Plenty of people would pay £50 or €60 for a tablet to browse the web, watch YouTube videos on and read documents.
Of course it won't have Apple quaking in its boots. But this dirt-cheap tablet could have a deeper impact than the over-priced iPad.
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