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Pi In India

Published on Saturday, February 6, 2010 by Gizmo Man

Pi

Retail portal Infibeam.com has launched its reading device Pi, which supports most Indian languages with digital rights management. The company has already make more than 1 Lack devices available in the market and still planning to increase the number in next few months. Pi gives users the option to upload their own content from a PC or any other device via USB.

The Pi has an internal memory of 512 MB which is expandable via SD Card Slot upto 4 GB. File formats supported are PDF, txt, .doc, EPUB, JPG, PNG, GIF and MP3.

As Per The Company: “The idea of Pi has been with us for the past two-years and a lot of R&D effort has gone in the same. We are proud to have created India’s first-ever reading device. Pi should not be seen just as a device but has great socio-economic ramifications, just imagine a doctor consulting his latest medical journal on the fly, or a lawyer looking at the latest case laws or even students having access to his text book in less than a 180 gm device. We can look at many such applications that have the potential to redefine how Indians view and look at content,” said Vishal Mehta, founder and CEO, infibeam.com.”

Some Of The Highlights:

  • Weights 180 gm
  • Less than 10 mm thick
  • Storage Capacity: up to 350 books with expandable capacity to store an additional 2000 books.
  • Battery Life: 4 days or 10000 refreshes.

Pi is available at infibeam.com for pre order booking at an introductory price of Rs. 9,999 and comes with a one year warranty.

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