Simputer 'not just a poor man's PC'
News When you think of the Simputer, do you see images of farmers, fields and cows? The idea for the Simputer was first proposed in India. Since then, the firm has tried to shake off the Simputer's rustic image and move it upmarket, selling the handheld...
[November 6, 2003, 11:00]
Ultra-cheap Linux portable targets developing nations
News However, the Simputer will change all that by bringing portable computing and the information age to developing countries. The Simputer will be powered by Linux, and have an easy-to-use interface comprising mainly icons and graphics on its high...
[January 11, 2002, 12:19]
Linux-based handheld hits the Indian market
News The Amida Simputer, originally developed as a "poor man's computer," is now being pitched as a device that can handle a wide range of business and personal-computing requirements. The Amida Simputer is designed to enable scribbling and e-mailing of...
[March 30, 2004, 16:20]
New handheld aims to bridge digital divide
News A non-profit group in India has created a simple, inexpensive, multilingual handheld device aimed at bringing computing to Third World nations -- dubbed the "Simputer". Simputer has a built-in browser, email software, a text-to-speech program...
[May 25, 2001, 16:21]
Cut-price Windows may bypass China
Talkback Someday in near future, China will develop their version of "Simputer" running Linux on it. It's quite clear that the average Chinese is not richer than the average Thai.
[July 5, 2004, 18:19]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Simputer -- Simple, Inexpensive, Multilingual -- is a slightly chunkier Palm-alike, runs Linux and connects to the Net. We know that the cool factor of owning a bit of genuine non-consumer tech is high: look at the success of the Freeplay...
[March 11, 2002, 9:20]
AMD ditches low-cost PC
News The PIC suffered the same problems that flops like the Simputer and other non-PC alternatives suffered. Advanced Micro Devices has pulled the plug on its Personal Internet Communicator, once envisioned as a low-cost computer for the developing world.
[November 14, 2006, 8:31]
$100 laptop to be built in Taiwan
News The Simputer, a cheap computer designed in India, fell flat, and Taiwan's Quanta, the biggest manufacturer of notebooks in the world, has signed on to the $100 laptop project. The OLPC organisation, which hopes to bring a $100 laptop championed by...
[December 14, 2005, 8:40]
Intel launches Community PC platform
News Previous PCs-for-the-poor projects, such as the Simputer and Nicholas Negroponte's $100 PC, have focused on making it possible for people living in rural areas of the developing world to own computing devices.
[March 31, 2006, 18:00]
Bringing computing to India's masses
News Creating a product that cuts costs without reducing functions isn't easy, as exemplified by the Simputer, a handheld computer designed for the masses. One of the critical ingredients for the $100 (£57) computer is probably in your garage.
[July 5, 2005, 13:40]
