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For sheer versatility, the thingamajig is streets ahead of other gizmos. It's simple, it's portable. At about Rs 9,000 per piece, it's highly affordable. [rediff.com] (April, 2001)

Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer: The Simputer -- article related to Technology.

Indian scientists invent cheap device enabling poor and illiterate to surf internet. [The Guardian] (June 9, 2001)

Simputer: Not for the common man any more - Three years ago, the Simputer was the biggest story to come out of the Indian IT industry. This is an update on its development and marketing. (October 17, 2003)

Simputer's Ajit Anvekar: Keeping up the Open Source 'josh' -- article related to Operating Systems, Unix, and Feature.

Innovative sub-$200 Internet device will help non-literate users.

Send email in your own handwriting, browse the Internet from anywhere, listen to MP3 music on-the-go, and do much, much more.

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Indian scientists and engineers develop a handheld computer to help the poor and illiterate join the information age.