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Impressive. What corners had to be cut in order to keep the cost down to such a level.

Resistive screen for one - notice the stylus. Also, probably old hardware and little RAM.

While the difference between this tablet and the Samsung Tab or iPad may be huge, the difference between no computer and this one is far far bigger.

7" Resistive touch screen, 32GB hard disk, 2GB RAM, 2 USB ports, WiFi.

In the video they mentioned "2gb" of ram.

There is usually a lot of government subsidy involved in things like these.