Nigeria's Saheed Adepoju is a young man with big dreams. He is the inventor of the Inye, a tablet computer designed for the African market.
According to the 29-year-old entrepreneur, his machine's key selling point is its price - $350 (£225) opposed to around $700 for an iPad.
He believes that, because of this, there is a big market for it in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, particularly amongst students.
Saheed Adepoju
- Age: 29
- Degree in Maths and computer science, The Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, 2005
- Advanced Computing, Bournemouth University, UK, 2008
- Worked briefly for a consulting firm
- Cofounded Encipher Group with Anibe Agamah
- Starting capital: $60,000
- The Encipher Inye was released in 2010
- Inye means One in Igala, a language in Nigeria
"The Inye is a mobile internet device. It gives you access to the internet; it allows you to play media files and watch movies. What we have is an 8-inch device, a device that is half-way between a laptop and a mobile phone," he told the BBC's series African Dream.
"You have the standard software applications that come pre-installed and then you have the ones that we are working with various local developers to bundle on," he added.
Among those local apps there is one designed to raise awareness about HIV and others related to water and sanitation.
"We work with local developers that have expertise in particular areas so that we don't end up doing so much work and we just have a collaborative way of doing things together," he said.
Inye
- Screen: 8-inch capacitive touchscreen
- Processor: 1Ghz
- Connectivity: WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth
- I/O: USB, micro USB, SD card slot (up to 32Gb), 35mm sound jack, HDMI, SIM card for 3G
- OS: Android
- Battery: 5hrs
- Storage: 8Gb internal, 16Gb in the box
- Warranty: 12 months
- App store: Google play store
- Local apps: Spinlet for streaming local Nigerian music and many locally inclined applications
Source: Encipher Group
via BBC News – Nigeria’s low-cost tablet computer.
0 comments:
Post a Comment