WishTel & Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education to launch
“World’s economical Linux based PC at 50USD
PrithV”
·        DESIGNED, ENGINEERED, MADE IN INDIA.
·        A Linux based educational Platform to be offered on tablets and net book PC
·        Supports 85 Global languages including 23 Indian languages
·        Pre-loaded with Educational Suite for Pre-Primary, Tertiary & Higher Education
·        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:

·         Screen Type: 7” TFT (LCD),  Capacitive
·         Operating System: Linux
·         Processor & Ram: 800 Mhz Processor & 512 RAM
                                  1.2 GHz & 1 GB RAM (option)     
·         Storage: 1 GB Nand Flash, supports upto 32GB MicroSD Card and 32 GB USB Stick
·         Battery: 2800 mAh,  3 hrs Usage
·         Ports / Sockets: USB 2.0 / Micro SD Card Slot  / 3.5MM Earphone / Mic Port
·         Camera Mode: 0.3 MP inbuilt camera
·         Offers Access to library of over 3 million Ebooks*
·         Offers Access to Simulation Softwares like SciLab, GeoGebra*
·         Offers Access to Textbooks, Encyclopaedia and Language Tutorials*
·         Offers Access to Virtual Science LAB*
·         Networks: 3G Dongle Support, WiFi IEEE 802.11 b/g
·         Music Player: mp3, wav, wma,  aac , AAC+, ac3, real audio
·         Video Player : mp4, AVI, mkv, mov, 3GP, additional 3D convertor
·         Colours:- Black
·         Document Formats: DOC/XLS/PPT/PDF/TXT/HTML
·         Applications: Android Market, Internet Browser, MSM, Open Office, Media Player, e-Book Reader, Skype Video Chatting, Photo Viewer, Games , Gtalk,  Google play
·         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.