Loy Okezie
Encipher officially announced today that its upcoming Andriod-powered Tablet would be called ‘inye’. Interestingly, ‘inye’ doesn’t sound anything like ‘iPad‘, ‘iPed‘ or ‘WePad‘.
inye (pronounced in-yay) is an Igala word which translates to the numerical “One”. With this, it is safe to say that the Encipher tablet is “The One”. Inye also means “One” in the Xhosa language.
Why ‘inye’?
Encipher’s Strategy and Innovation Manager, Saheed Adepoju explains that the choice of an Igala word in naming their Tablet is based on their localization efforts.
You may recall that Encipher recently announced a major partnership deal with ALT-I, the agency responsible for the localization of the Yoruba language within Windows vista OS and Office suites.
It further makes sense that one of Encipher’s co-founders is Igala by origin.
The Encipher ‘inye’ logo (above) was designed by Urbannet Fibre, a graphic and web design outfit based in Abuja. Encipher has also launched its new website (yet to be officially unveiled), but yet to upload content.
Now, we’ve seen the photos, we’ve seen the specs, we’ve known the starting price, we’ve seen it being unveiled in Abuja and Lagos, yet we don’t know the launch date.
Meanwhile, the iPad has already sold 3 million units and counting.
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We patiently await the One to be available in the market… Let's go there!
“Inye re o….”
Happy launching in advance….
My friends and I have been arguing that what effort has Encipher itself put into this tablet. Their argument is this: it is based on Android, which was developed by Google, and the parts are most likely made in China, so all Encipher did was to couple together hardware components, slam the Android software and a brand name. Loy, can you help me clarify this?
Pls read my other posts on the ‘encipher tablet’ for clarification.
You realize, I would like it if there were far more blogs and forums such as this one, I truly love this content published here
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