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Swipe Telecom will soon launch an exclusive tablet personal computer for kids in the age group of two to 10.
These tablets will be made of food grade materials so they are child-safe and will not harm children even if they happen to chew them, according to the company’s founder and CEO Shripal Gandhi.
The product called Swipe Junior II will be launched in August, he told newspersons while announcing the company's entry into South India with a tie up with the Chennai-based UniverCell.
Swipe develops Android-based tablet personal computers.
It had earlier launched Swipe Junior on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system. It had a 2 mega pixel camera, 7-inch HD display, child centric games and applications, education tool, parental lock and remote control child behaviour.
Gandhi did not give any other information on Junior II.
Swipe has a good presence in the north and west with a market share of nearly 9 per cent in volume, Gandhi said.
Eight tab models The company started in the South with eight tablet models ranging between ₹4,999 and ₹14,999. These will be available exclusively at UniverCell, he said.
“We plan to sell around 20,000 units a month of Swipe products,” said D Satish Babu, Founder UniverCell. The company did trial run of Swipe products, and all of them were sold out, he said.
Swipe designs its products at its centres in Pune and Sacramento in the US while assembling is done in Shenzhen, China, where companies like Apple too assemble its products, Gandhi said. The two-year-old company expects to report revenue of around ₹ 300 crore in the current year as against ₹100 crore last year.
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