All Answers: Re: [pakgrid] Pakistan Made PAC PAD

Friday 24 February 2012

Re: [pakgrid] Pakistan Made PAC PAD

A cumulative reply of sorts, although I do believe that I should learn to keep my piece of mind to myself.

These tablets are manufactured in China/Hong Kong etc for companies like Apple. Other vendors can get them, too. I don't think this is a big deal. You get a box and you brand it. I gather that you can buy the same box that Apple uses for its IPad, except running the Android OS, cheaper than PACPad.
More importantly, though, as far as it's use by the armed forces is concerned, or any other critical use, for instance anything life or mission critical, I don't think that we can rely on these. Unless, of course, a thorough security audit of the hardware and software is done, which I believe is impossible. Can we really trust Google's Andoid OS that much? Can we really trust someone else's designed box that much? For domestic or academic use, sure. But not for anything critical.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Ahmad Iqbal <ahmad.ali.iqbal@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks all for your comments and providing the link to purchase.

However, I doubt if we can really purchase it online and get it delivered overseas. This portal http://www.cpmc.pk/place-your-order-2/ does not even provide to specify a country and concentrates more about your job role.

I purchased the cheapest one from http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/170762354526?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 a few months ago for my kid but found it fairly poor quality in terms of touch screen and response time. Comparing this with PAC PAD, it has almost similar specification except the processor type (IMAPx210 and ARM11) but price looks around 5 times low. So, its not a bad deal at all.

Regarding warranty and support, considering low priced product, it doesn't really matter as long as it is working when it is delivered.

Cheers,
Dr. Ahmad Ali Iqbal

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Asif Mufti <anmufti@yahoo.com> wrote:

I very much doubt they will be able to provide post sales support as is expected from overseas company. My hunch is it will fade into distant memory in 6 months. The bottom line is it takes lot of resources past sales.

I hope I am dead wrong.
Good Luck

From: ISHTIAQ AHMAD <ishtiaq.ahmad@gmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Ahmad Iqbal <ahmad.ali.iqbal@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [pakgrid] Pakistan Made PAC PAD

Thanks Ahmad for pointing out such a great piece of information. In my opinion Punjab government should replace laptop with tablet PC to students preferably with home made. Clearly tablets PCs are feature devices and it will be great if our kids are already trained on them.

I'm equally disappointed by Jahan Ara's view (if its true), we give them a lot of public money and we deserve some thing out of it other then weapons but I do agree it should be done under a spin off rather then PAC. if regularity is a problem that's a totally different issue

Regards,
ISHTIAQ AHMAD

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Ahmad Iqbal <ahmad.ali.iqbal@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

Just came across and would like to share this new:ï¿½http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/20/pakistan_pacpad1/. Also is there anyone who has any portal from where I can purchase online?

Thanks,

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Dr. Ahmad Ali Iqbal
Ph.D. (EE), University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
Security Specialist & Developer, ICT Security, North Sydney, Australia

Security Consultant, Mi-Token Inc., USA

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