Russia plans to launch Tablet PC to counter ipad

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of August 19, the Russian Nanotechnology Group (Rosnano) plans to produce a plastic tablet next year, for school students sales, the price of 420 U.S. dollars, and the cheapest ipad 670 dollars.　　The tablet will use plastic or organic electronics (organic Electronics), 30 cm long and 20 cm wide, larger than the ipad. In January 2011, the Russian Nanotechnology group acquired a 25% per cent stake in the UK plastic logic (Plastic Logic) company at a price of 150 million dollars.　　As one of the world's leading plastics electronics companies, plastic logic plans to invest 700 million of dollars outside Moscow to build a factory.　　Apple's main distributor in Russia, Re:store, expects the market to be 500,000 PCs/year, with Apple occupying 60% of the market. Anatoly Chubais, president of the Russian Nanotechnology group, said it would test in some schools one year before the Chubais, which would be preloaded with textbooks and teaching materials. (New Tie)