Two young South African entrepreneurs have created a tablet for the African rural market, the tablet can be charged with sunlight to areas where there are difficulties of electricity supply.
To take advantage of the sunlight that Southern Africa and other African countries like Angola provide these two young people from Port Elizabeth created the Millbug Vuya Tablet, Vuya means "Be Happy"In isiXhosa a dialect used in Port Elizabeth, Vuya was created in 2012 by Sabelo Sibanda of 30 years and Thulisile Volwana of 22 years, the initial idea was to create a virtual store to sell clothes to the young people included between 15 and 35 years of age, later they understood that there was little inclination on the part of the people to make purchases in virtual store using Smartphones for example, and there came to them the idea of inventing a tablet that could facilitate the experience in virtual shopping using a tablet PC, began a revolution for these two young people began to do all sorts of Online course related to electronics, during the time of research on the the nature of the device found that the CSIR (South African Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) had already done a study that had good indications about rural technologies for education and health, it was a vow to gamble intensely on building the Millbug.
For the implementation of the project the Silk a South African development agency that helps small businesses evolve, financed R35.000 (Rands), approximately 3.253 from USD, and helped throughout the process since the contact with the manufacturers of the components used to assemble the tablet until the registration and certification of it, other costs were paid by the inventors.
As a final product the Vuya has Wi-Fi connectivity, 7 inch, Android OS 4.4 KitKat, 1.2GHz processor, 512MB memory and 4GB internal storage.
The Tablet is available in several colors including: Black, Red, Blue and Purple, currently the creators are planning to create a larger device with support for the 3G network, "We wanted our first tablet to be accessible" said Sibanda.
Sibanda also said that there is a great interest on the part of some telecommunications companies and companies from other branches, however he did not mean which companies already have a contract signed with the inventors, he also stressed that the main focus of the tablet remains education.
Vuya will be officially launched at the end of June with the price of R1.499 anything like 15.000 KZ
We only have to know what the final price of the tablet will be until arriving in Angola.
[Source]: TechCentral
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