In the 2H2012 Ecuador will assemble tablets with imported technology from South Korea.
Aesoft - Software Ecuadorian Association (Asociación Ecuatoriana de Software) and the korean company Cobalt Ray , signed an agreement to make Ecuador the first Latin American country to manufacture these electronic devices, with the possibility to become the first distributor for the region.
Cobalt Ray brings a wide range of products, like small e-book readers designed specialy for the Bible. The firm also offers a smaller size tablet to become primary and high school students books and notebooks.
The total manufacturing time of this product is 45 days.
There is not a fixed model for Ecuador. Everything will depend on the companies interested in manufacturing these products , the market requeriment and the clients.
The assembled products will have the seal "Made in Ecuador".
All the ecuadorean software developers companies Aesoft associated and not associated , can invest in this project. The project also includes training on the Android OS, that will be loaded on the devices in Spanish.
The Ecuadoren Govermment is supporting the project with a 50% investement.
As part of the project , Training and Developing Android Centres will be build in the country, that will offer this service for South America.
Antonio Sánchez Aesoft President and Allen Cho President of Cobalt Ray Korea
Cobalt Ray site
Source: ElComercio Ecuador.
Interesting, hope prices will get down
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