Olive telecommunications
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Company Background
Olive Telecom is Headquartered in GurgaonGurgaon
Gurgaon is the second largest city in the Indian state of Haryana. Gurgaon is the industrial and financial center of Haryana. It is located 30 km south of national capital New Delhi, about 10 kilometers from Dwarka Sub City and 268 km south of Chandigarh, the state capital...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and is a privately held leading Convergence Solutions Device Developer with presence in mobile phones, laptops, netbooks, Tablets , mobile computing, wireless broadband and convergence devices.
The genesis of Olive Telecom lies in the group’s core belief of providing high quality convergence devices that not only offer affordability to customers worldwide but also provide them with technology that is future ready.
Olive Telecom today is probably one of the few Indian companies’ that has an intense relationship with over 28 leading mobile service operators; working with cutting edge devices to improve their bottom-lines.
Olive Telecom currently has its own two Design Houses in India focusing on Industrial Design and ICT/Convergence products. The company also has two design and R&D facilities in Nanjing and Shanghai in China for the mobile computing and telephony products.
Olive Telecom has a product portfolio complete across the areas - WCDMA, CDMA, GSM and EV-DO handsets and smart-phones, Mobile Computing Devices, Advanced data modems for wireless broadband. A strategic partnership with technology leader Qualcomm
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...
, has also brought about recognition for the company’s’ thrust in search of new and innovative design and technology for the connected world.
In 2006, the holding company entered into a joint venture with the $20 billion Haier
Haier
Haier Group is a multinational consumer electronics and home appliances company headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong, People's Republic of China. Its products include air conditioners, mobile phones, computers, microwave ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, and televisions...
Group, to form Haier Telecom India, with a mandate of creating leadership for the Haier brand in the CDMA handset segment.
Haier Mobile today is the preferred brand of many Indian and international mobile service operators and occupies the prestigious second place in the category in India.
Haier Telecom (India)Private Limited, Joint Venture owned by Olive and Haier China, was awarded the "Fastest Growing Brand" award from Qualcomm at their Partner Meet at Oberoi Hotel, Delhi
Product range
Olive Telecom product portfolio is replete with WCDMA, CDMA, GSM and EV-DO handsets, Mobile_Computing Devices and Advanced data modems for wireless broadbandBroadband
The term broadband refers to a telecommunications signal or device of greater bandwidth, in some sense, than another standard or usual signal or device . Different criteria for "broad" have been applied in different contexts and at different times...
.
Olive Zipbook
Olive Telecom has given India’s first ever range of Zipbooks (3G Embedded Netbooks). Currently it offers one 3G Enabled Netbook the Olive X107H. The Olive Zipbook runs on an Intel AtomIntel Atom
Intel Atom is the brand name for a line of ultra-low-voltage x86 and x86-64 CPUs from Intel, designed in 45 nm CMOS and used mainly in netbooks, nettops, embedded application ranging from health care to advanced robotics and Mobile Internet devices...
N270 Processor, has a 1GB RAM and a 160 GB hard drive. A Complete Specifications list is detailed as follows
| Specifications of the Olive Zipbook | |
| Operation System | Windows XP SP3 |
| Intel CPU & Chipset | Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHZ, 512 cache, 945GSE |
| Graphics: | Integrated GMA 3150 |
| Memory | DDR2 1GB |
| Storage | 250GB2.5” SATA2 HDD 5400rpm |
| Camera | 1.3Mega Pixels |
| Input / Output | 1 x VGA Connector, 3 x USB 2.0, 1 x LAN RJ-45, 2 x Audio Jack (Headphone / Mic-in) |
| Card Reader: | MMC/SD(SDHC) |
| Battery | 3 cell Li-polymer battery |
| Dimensions | 262mm (W) x 180mm (D) x 26.2mm (H) |
| Weight | 1.2kg |
Olive Pad
Olive Telecom has launched the OlivePadOlivePad
OlivePad VT100 is a tablet computer phone designed and developed by Olive Telecom for the Indian market. It was released on October 23, 2010. It has a dimension of 7-inches with a resolution of 800 x 480 on a capacitive touchscreen supporting multi-touch...
which is India's first 3G enabled Android tablet PC
Tablet computer
A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...
. The Olive pad is positioned as muti functional device convergence and operates on an Android OS. The Olive Pad comes with features like Social networking, GPS, Internet Browser, Gaming and others. The Olive Pad's features are as follows
| Specifications of the Olive Pad | |
| Processor | ARM11 600MHz |
| Chipset | Qualcomm MSM7227 |
| Internal Memory | 512MB |
| Hard Disk Drive Type | Inbuilt Flash 512MB NAND Flash and microSD expandability up to 32GB |
| Display Screen Size (Inches) | 7" Touch TFT |
| Resolution | 800 X 400, WVGA |
| Screen Type | Touch & Capacitive Type |
| GSM Bands: | 850/900/1800/1900 |
| UMTS Bands : | 900/1900/2100 Or 850/1900/2100 |
| WiFi | (802.11b/g) |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR |
| 3G | Yes |
| GPS | Yes |
| Multimedia | Yes |
| Microphone | Yes |
| Speakers | Yes |
| Camera | 3 Mega Pixel (Front Camera) & VGA Camera (Back) |
| G-Sensor | Yes |
| E-Compass Sensor | Yes |
| Ambient Light Sensor | Yes |
| Computer Interfaces | ( I/O Ports and Cards) |
The Olive Pad has been touted as an able and capable challenger to the popular Apple iPad. The device undercuts the Apple iPad's price tag significantly as it is priced for a shade under Rs 25,000 versus the Apple iPad
Mobile Phones
Olive Telecom has a total of 11 Mobile Phones in its portfolio.A list of the Olive Telecom Mobile Phones are as follows:
- V-G200 Olive Pwrr (Candy Bar mobile phone )
- V-G300 Olive Touch ( Touch screen mobile phone )
- V-G8000 Olive Msgr ( QWERTY mobile phone )
- V-G1100 Olive Compacta (Candy Bar mobile phone )
- V-G2100 Olive Glide (Candy Bar mobile phone )
- V-G400 ( Flip mobile phone )
- V-G500 ( Slider mobile phone )
- V-GC800 Olive Wiz ( Triple sim mobile phone )
- V-G200 Olive Pwrr ( Touch Screen mobile phone )
- V-G2300 Olive Frvron ( Hybrid dual power mobile phone )
- V-G3200 Olive Lumen ( Torch mobile phone )