Thai Govt Vows Strict Quality Control For Computer Tablets

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Govt vows strict quality control for tablets

THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- The government is ensuring strict quality control in the production of the first batch of tablet computers for its One Tablet Per Child scheme.

"If any of the 2,000 devices contains a flaw in the main system, the whole manufacturing process must be revamped from the start," Information and Communications Technology Minister Anudith Nakornthap said yesterday.

If the flaw is minor, manufacturing for the next lots will be able to start after the change is made in line with the Thai government's requirements, he said.

An extensive quality inspection of the first 2,000 devices will be part of the contract with the Chinese supplier, Shenzhen Scope Scientific Development.

The Office of the Attorney-General will review the contract before the signing takes place soon. Within 15 days of the signing, the first batch must be delivered to Thailand.

Anudith said that by Tuesday all the agencies that would receive tablets, except the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and the City of Pattaya, would have to transfer funds to his ministry to arrange the procurement for them.

Chinnapat Bhumirat, secretary-general of the Basic Education Commission, said his agency was allocated just Bt1.18 billion for the scheme but according the government's plan, it would have to provide tablets to all 560,000 Prathom 1 students.

"The budget we've got is enough for about 470,000 tablets only," he said.

The Budget Bureau has advised the agency to borrow some of the funds allocated for other purposes for the purchase of the difference, or 90,000 tablets.

-- The Nation 2012-03-30

[AZBill]

I'm laughing so hard I believe I just <deleted> myself!

[1weatherman]

Oh now you tell me we don't have enough money.

[whybother]

How many times has the budget for all the tablets been approved?

[noitom]

"Quality control?" Standards, regulations, and quality is a lip service charade in Thailand.

[Soupdragon]

With all these vows flying around I can't keep track if any have actually been fulfilled.

[Payboy]

Thai Govt Vows Strict Quality Control For Computer Tablets

Thailand - the hub of quality control.

[TheWalkingMan]

So this is another Scopes trial?

[lungmi]

The Thai importer for the tablets, I guess, has a name like this: shi**t**

[Buchholz]

The ICT Minister is just greasing the skids in preparation of the program eventual collapse and cancellation of the scam.

Statement waiting to be delivered to the promised recipients and their families...

"We tried very hard to fulfill our pledge to you and we did everything we possibly could to deliver on it.... but it was cancelled because of the incompetent Chinese manufacturers. Again, we're sorry and we did all we could. It's just not our fault that we found out the Chinese can't live up to our high standards. Did I mention the cancellation is not because of anything we did?"

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Edited March 30, 2012 by Buchholz

[allan michaud]

Government official inspecting a tablet computer

[ginjag]

Lungmi---better say-- SHY-talk, or the word for all these people involved--shy-talks. ??? Ha Ha

[jmdf103]

whats the specification of these tabs?

[volk666]

It looks like Anudith had nothing else to say. The month ended, contract is not signed yet, there's no real news, so he talks about about quality control instead.

Actually he shouldn't be bragging about it until Chinese have is signed, until then it's still open to negotiations.

The money problem is something new - local education bodies are supposed to transfer money to Ministry of Information but they haven't got full funds yet.

The only good news is that by now technology reached the point where reasonable performance doesn't cost an arm and a leg, only a year ago current specs were almost top of the range but now they don't seem to know what to do with all those chips anymore as Android tablets don't sell as well as they hoped.

[bkk_mike]

whats the specification of these tabs?

Seconded

Are they multi-touch capacitive screens?

They'll be Android of course (as the cost - free - is right).

What's the resolution?

Are they colour, or not. (all the screen shots I ever saw of kids using them were monochrome).

How much RAM do they have, How much storage space? (admittedly, if they're locked down, they just need enough for the education programs that the government will provide...)

[maeab]

whats the specification of these tabs?

They cost 2500 baht bad res. small power 300 mhz will break and crash in a month or so .....thaksin promised ipads on all of the campain posters.......nothing but lies. big waste of money not buying quality gear...I have seen these cheap tabs from china in burma they are crap my friend bought one it lasted two weeks.

[Pseudolus]

The clowns forgot to calculate into their cums the 20% cash they were going to skim off the top.

[longway]

They promised an apple ipad or equivelent free for every school child before their election.

What they will try to deliver after they were elected is, subject to conditions, if they can, to a few, maybe perhaps is the equivilent of this:

Edited March 30, 2012 by longway

[volk666]

Specs are quite okay on paper - 1Ghz processor, 1GB Ram, capacitive touchscreen with standard Android resolution for 7'' devices, fairly big battery, don't remember the exact number but on par with last year Android tablets.

My guess is that now the Chinese got the mass scale production to bring the prices down from where they were last year for the similar spec hardware. Next batch will probably see dual core processors, bigger batteries and better screen technology (better colors, better viewing angle etc).

Indina Akaash looks like total sh*t comparing to this Chinese offer. They've promised to deliver a million of those but ended up with something like ten thousand trial run, mired in bureaucracy and red tape, and the lack of interest in substandard hardware. Thai tablets look okay at least on the hardware side.

[letitbe]

[jerrysteve]

Balderdash

[jerrysteve]

B A L D E R D A S H G O V E R N M E N T

[jerrysteve]

WHAT! Q U A L I T Y CONTROL!!!!!!! TIME TO BREAK OUT THE PREPARATION H !!!