Datawind partners with GetJar for Ubislate II

NEW DELHI: Maker of world's cheapest tablet DataWind on Monday announced a partnership with GetJar to pre-install the GetJar app store on all Datawind Ubislate tablets. GetJar's app store offers customers access to over 350,000 free applications, many of which users would have to pay for in other app stores.

GetJar accomplishes this through an advertising-based model having developers pay for placement of their applications subsidizing the consumer's costs. This is especially important in markets like India where online payment methods are unreliable and grossly unavailable. The move will give all Aakash or Ubislate II customers access to download their choice of thousands of free applications.

DataWind CEO, Suneet Singh Tuli said, "GetJar is an established partner with a very large selection of free applications that users can download onto their UbiSlate or Aakash tablets. We're excited by the added value this brings to our end users."

Chris Dury, GetJar's CEO adds "Low-cost tablets open the capabilities of applications and the Internet for millions of people. We are happy to help Datawind make free applications and our GetJar Gold program available to these new tablet customers."