Homegrown book PCs on the rise

Bangalore-based EAFT Technologies touch screen android tablet pc is set to barrage the 'Marathon' book PC tomorrow. Priced at Rs 29,900, it sports a 10.1-inch awning and runs an Android (Version 2.2) operating arrangement android 2.2 tablet powered by an NVDIA Tegra2 chip. It additionally boasts of a USB and HDMI anchorage (through which it can be affiliated to a television).

EAFT (Everything At Finger Tips) is a artefact android 2.2 tablet engineering company. Aftermost year, it alien its 'MagicTile' adaptable ball accessory that sports assorted connectivity options, an built-in all-around accession arrangement and HDMI achievement to accept a good timemovies on TVs. The aggregation hopes ‘Marathon’ would accompaniment its artefact line.


'Marathon' is not the aftermost of the book PCs android 2.2 tablet from the Indian stable. While Olive Telecom, MSI and alike IT casework aggregation HCL Technologies accept already launched book PCs in the country, companies like Spice Telecom, Bharti Teletech, Micromax, Zen Mobile, Karbonn and Lava Mobiles arise agog to acquaint their own book PC versions in the bazaar soon.

Market analysis firm, CyberMedia Analysis expects the Indian book PC bazaar to annual for 100,000 book PCs or 0.1 per cent of the adaptable bazaar this year. Analysts say the charge to hit the bazaar with a book PC archetypal has become analytical for best adaptable PC vendors.