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Expatriate Indian to launch low-cost laptop
New Delhi News.Net
Sunday 2nd September, 2007 (ANI)
Mumbai, Sep 2 : An expatriate Indian is all set to launch a unique lightweight and affordable laptop computer priced at 366.20 dollars in Indian markets.
An aviation engineer and missile scientist with British aerospace, Hirji Kanji Patel, came to India a few years ago, and founded a company specialising in manufacturing of laptop computers.
The company was the first to come out with 732.42 dollars laptop, which was lowered to 488.21 dollars in 2006. Today, he is ready to start production of a cost effective laptop by first quarter of 2008, without compromising on the features.
"This laptop carries all the features that any other laptop has. This being small, portable, it will have a built-in wireless LAN, enabling you to connect wherever you have a hotspot. In addition you have an option for blue-tooth, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) which other laptops do not carry as modules," said Patel.
Demand for computers and notebooks in India are mainly from fast-growing sectors such as banking, financial services, and telecommunications and information technology.
Patel said affordability and wireless technology has fuelled a boom in the laptop computer market, with a large chunk of people opting for laptops instead of a PC.
He added gadgets like laptops and notebooks should be within the reach of the ordinary man.
"Our main focus as a laptop specialist company in India... my goal in India is to make sure every single person in India is equipped with a laptop. And that's my goal as a businessman in India and I want to be able to do it for India," said Patel.
Patel's ultimate goal, however, is to manufacture a laptop computer costing just 122 dollars in the near future.
Sale of 'notebook' computers registered the fastest growth in India - 144 per cent to 431,834 units in 2005.
Indian IT industry says that the estimated sales of computers in the country were around 5.6 million units in 2006-07.  Email this story to a friend
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