WishTel & Homi Bhabha Centre for
Science Education to launch
“World’s economical Linux based PC at
50USD
PrithV”
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DESIGNED, ENGINEERED, MADE IN INDIA.
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A Linux based educational Platform to be offered on tablets
and net book PC
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Supports 85 Global languages including 23 Indian languages
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Pre-loaded with Educational Suite for Pre-Primary, Tertiary
& Higher Education
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An open source platform offering access to a library of
over 3 million ebooks
New
Delhi, December 04, 2012: The education industry is all set to witness
another revolution with WishTel, the Mumbai based technology and Electronic
Manufacturing Company announcing the launch of Worlds cheapest Linux based
PC “PrithV”, designed and manufactured in India and priced at US$ 50 that
is designed to serve all the global education needs.
PrithV is a Linux based educational
Platform to be offered on tablets and net book PC supporting 85 Global
languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Urdu, Zulu
and 23 Indian languages. Designed and engineered in India, Designed and
engineered in India, PrithV has been developed in Association with Gnowledge
lab, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education under guidance of Prof Nagarjuna.
PrithV comes loaded with Educational Suite to offer Self Learning software’s
for Pre-Primary, Tertiary, Higher Education for Languages, Science: Physics,
Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Geography, Math: Algebra, Calculus, Geometry,
Medicine, Computing etc.
Announcing the launch of the Mr. Milind
Shah, Chief Executive Officer, Wishtel added, “Our objective as a
technology and manufacturing company is to create affordable range of products
that can contribute to Society by extending Education for free and without
boundaries. We also want to take advanced technology to such parts of
world where every stratum of the society can access our products at an
affordable price. We intend to offer our solutions to Universities
and Schools worldwide and empower every student with a PC enabling them to
learn and educate themselves beyond textbooks, access and create their own
knowledge.”
PrithV is a free and open source
platform offering access to library of over 3 million books, encyclopaedia,
class room videos, virtual lab for Science, Math, and Geography. PrithV shall be collaborated
efforts of all teachers and Linux developers to offer Education for free.
PrithV meaning “Earth” in Ancient Sanskrit
is the world’s economical Computer that can perform complete computing,
programming, database management, arithmetic and Logical operations in addition
to basic tasks like emails, web browsing, media, office applications etc.
Since the introduction of the Wishtel
‘IRA’ tablet PCs early this year, Wishtel has shipped over 250,000 devices and
expects to reach monthly volumes of 100 thousand per month. To meet this
growing demand, Wishtel is expanding the capacity of its manufacturing
facilities in Maharashtra , while at the same time increasing investment in
R&D to further enhance its
hardware design and software engineering capabilities to meet the diverse needs
of both domestic and overseas customers.
Salient
features of the PrithV based tablet are as follows:
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Screen
Type: 7”
TFT (LCD), Capacitive
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Operating
System: Linux
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Processor
& Ram: 800
Mhz Processor & 512 RAM
1.2 GHz & 1 GB RAM (option)
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Storage:
1 GB
Nand Flash, supports upto 32GB MicroSD Card and 32 GB USB Stick
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Battery:
2800
mAh, 3 hrs Usage
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Ports
/ Sockets: USB
2.0 / Micro SD Card Slot / 3.5MM Earphone / Mic Port
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Camera
Mode:
0.3 MP inbuilt camera
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Offers
Access to library of over 3 million Ebooks*
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Offers
Access to Simulation Softwares like SciLab, GeoGebra*
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Offers
Access to Textbooks, Encyclopaedia and Language Tutorials*
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Offers
Access to Virtual Science LAB*
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Networks:
3G
Dongle Support, WiFi IEEE 802.11 b/g
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Music
Player:
mp3, wav, wma, aac , AAC+, ac3, real audio
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Video
Player :
mp4, AVI, mkv, mov, 3GP, additional 3D convertor
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Colours:- Black
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Document
Formats:
DOC/XLS/PPT/PDF/TXT/HTML
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Applications: Android Market,
Internet Browser, MSM, Open Office, Media Player, e-Book Reader, Skype Video
Chatting, Photo Viewer, Games , Gtalk, Google play
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Languages: Support 85 Global
Languages and 23 Indian Langauges.
About WishTel:
Wishtel is a young IT enterprise that believes in bringing
people closer to technology by creating gadgets that touch the lives of people.
The company has designed, engineered and manufactured the recently launched
low-cost tablets IRA and IRA Thing 2 (world’s first tablets to support 23
native Indian languages). With its highly effective and affordable products,
the company aims to bridge the technological gap in the education industry.
Wishtel with its associates possesses in-depth expertise and experience with real
time embedded systems and development tools, thus building an ecosystem of
highly integrated hardware and software for Tablet PCs and multimedia boxes. It
drives manufacturing efficiencies, inventory, lead time and cost reductions in
its India manufacturing operations through quality orientated and lean
operating principles.
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