The Mexican Manufacturer Space Will Compete With Apple in Mexico

Space will compete with Apple in Mexico


Business - Tuesday, April 5, 2011 (17:45 hrs)

•Livepad 7 launches

Mexico, April 5 .- The Mexican manufacturer of electronic devices Space today placed a seven-inch tablet that seeks to compete directly with the iPad2 in Mexico, where the market for ultraportable and tablet computers mobilized in 2011 more than four thousand 200 million dollars, according to estimates from the same Space.

The Guadalajara team this brand called Multitouch Space Livepad 7, will cost about three thousand dollars less than the basic version of Apple computer, your operating system is the Google Android 2.1, and have Wi-Fi and 3G.

Eduardo Solorzano, chief executive of Space, said that the mark be placed in the next few days two thousand units of Livepad 7 in convenience stores, electronic specialty stores and other distribution channels. Of that amount, he said, eleven hundred LivePads already sold.

The businessman said that his team Space manufacturing in Asia and by the success he can get on the market 16-gigabyte version, which costs shall not exceed four thousand dollars from the point of sale, the brand will launch an eight GB version Livepad for low-income consumers

Solorzano said also that of the dozen brands that sell tablets in Mexico, Space can slip into the top seven, as the Livepad 7 integrates technologies and components that are at the "height" of the equipment offered by Apple, Samsung or Motorola, for example.

"The market for tablets is not well measured, because it is new, but every brand we believe that there will be an explosive growth in terms of tablets and segments, and we want to be part of," he said.

Eduardo Solorzano argued that Livepad 7 offers features suitable for the business market, plus it already offers software that enables electronic invoicing processes, then that Space has partnerships with solution providers to issue digital invoices (CFD)

Although the equipment is being manufactured in countries like China or Taiwan, not to say that is a unit of medium or low quality, because "before selling the Livepad tested over 20 prototypes until we achieve a very tempting for the market and a very competitive price. There is an attack against the iPad Mexican brands and want to be there, "he said.

As for specifications, Livepad 7 has the advantage of being expandable from 16 to 32 or 64GB memory with MicroSD slot 128 to 16GB, lithium battery for up to eight hours, a multitouch LCD screen seven-inch USB 2.0 ports, supports Flash and more than 80 000 applications Android, among other functions. (With information from Finsat / Nicholas Lucas / GCE)


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