INDIA: Infibeam.com, one of the largest online retail portals for consuming India, has launched the infibeam.com Pi, the first ever reading device in India designed to provide an exceptional reading experience that also supports most Indian languages with digital rights management.
Pi, comes with a revolutionary new display technology, making reading a pleasurable experience akin to real life reading of books, with no strain and glare of a computer screen. Pi is also easy on the fingertips, and can read comfortably at any angle for long period of time.
At present Pi owners have the choice of downloading over 1 lac digital books from infibeam.com, which the company plans to increase over a period of time. The reading device also gives the users the option to upload their own content from PC or any other device through a simple USB device. Infibeam.com is also in advance talks with a number of newspaper publications to provide subscription based access to large number of newspaper content to its consumers.
“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,” enthused Vishal Mehta, founder and CEO, infibeam.com.
“We are in talks with publishers and content owners across segments to give our customers access to the best in breed content and we are looking at content dissemination for specific verticals like healthcare, law, education etc,” he added.
Some of the key features of Pi include extremely light weight at approximately 180 gm and less than 10 mm thick similar to most magazines we read. Storage capacity up to 350 books with expandable capacity to store an additional 2000 books and reads in most Indian languages with digital rights management and a battery life of 4 days or 10000 refreshes.
Pi is available at infibeam.com for pre order booking with an introductory price of Rs. 9,999.
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