Now Get Live Demo Of Infibeam PI

You can get a demo of Pi at any of our Infibeam.com offices around India. Please call in advance and confirm a time for your visit to ensure that someone is available to give the demo - http://www.infibeam.com/static/branch-offices.html

Chetan Bhagat with a Pi!

Chetan Bhagat was in Ahmedabad for the Star Anchor Hunt Auditions. As you may already know, Infibeam's headquarters is in Ahmedabad. So we were lucky to get a chance to meet up with him.

We chit-chatted about sales of his book on Infibeam.com as well as showed off the Pi to him!

Nishant, Chetan Bhagat, Somesh

On a related note, Infibeam now ships Chetan Bhagat's books internationally, to more than 70 countries!

Infibeam Pi at Barcamp Ahmedabad 3

We had the privilege of talking about Pi at the recent Barcamp Ahmedabad 3 where the topic of focus was "Creativity and Entrepreneurship".

We were happy to see the audience enthusiasm, and especially people such as Kartik Mistry were thrilled with reading text in our mother tongue languages:

 

Photo taken by Kartik Mistry

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Some of the questions by the enthusiastic audience included developing apps for Pi, when are we launching a version with WiFi included, about touch screens and Pi, and so on.

Phew!

We know that "yeh dil maange more", and we are all for it. We are already hard at work on the next generation of Pi, and adding features that make sense now and the ones which are most beneficial. We can't promise adding all your feature requests straight away, but we are definitely considering all of them!

For example, most people never considered local language support as an important feature until we announced the Pi. Those are the kind of latent needs and important needs that we are also looking at.

For more info about Barcamp Ahmedabad 3, please do read Paras Shah's photolog of the event.

Infibeam Pi Review

Many people have been asking on Twitter whether there any independent reviews about the Pi, so here is the list so far that we know of. Please let us know if there are any reviews we have missed, and we will add it here.

• Review by Chirag Patnaik ( as mentioned earlier )
• Review by Chintanaigal
• Photo of Pi displaying Gujarati text by Kartik Mistry
• Review by PCWorld magazine
• Review by NDTV Gadget Guru show
• Review by Rediff GetAhead
• "The product surpassed my expectation." -- Rakesh, a satisfied customer
• Infibeam Pi review: Humbles the Kindle in India
• Review by Tech 2.0
• Review by Pluggd.in
• Review 1 by Amit Bhawani
• Review 2 by Amit Bhawani
• Review by GadgetGeek 
• Review by Generation Next Gadgets
• Review by Abhishek Basumallick 
• Review by TechBangalore 
• Review 1 by CallingAllGeeks (Images)
• Review 2 by CallingAllGeeks
• Review by Hari Kotharee

Showcasing InfiBeam Pi at Unpluggd

We had the opportunity recently to showcase the Pi at the first Unpluggd event on Saturday, March 06, 2010.

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A view of the hall at the Unpluggd entrepreneurship event

We were blown away by the response! After the demo, three of us were answering questions for more than two hours. It was heartening to see the interest from other entrepreneurs, from avid book readers, from potential customers, and generally curious folks.

We got lots of questions regarding the state of e-ink technology and regarding the future versions of Pi. Two questions were oft-repeated, and we thought of putting it here for reference:

Q: How many Pis have you sold so far?

A: While we do not publicly disclose the exact number, what we can tell you is that we plan to sell 20-30K Pis in the initial few months and we are on target.  To date, we have already sold several thousand.

Q: Future releases/features?

A: We are evaluating the requirements of our customers and making the right design choices on behalf of our customers.  Of course, including wireless connectivity is high on priority and we are also closely following 3G rollout.  You can expect the subsequent versions will have connectivity and more applications that can utilize fast downloads.  Of course, we are working on a large repository of content and making  it available on the device. Today, we have more than 1 lakh ebooks from most major publishers and we are working with many publishers in India so you will see more local language content available.

Great response for Pi

There is excitement all around our office because of the great response we have been seeing for Pi, for example, see the hands-on review by our customer Chirag Patnaik which has real nice snaps of the Pi displaying India Today magazine!

In fact, the response has been so good that our first batch of Pis are sold out, and we have started shipping the second batch (as seen below)!

Delivering the first Pis ourselves

One of the biggest pluses in a startup is that you get to experience, first-hand, the delight of the customer - after all, that's the foundation of any business.

The downside of being an online startup is that we do not see our customer at all.

To remedy this, we have a tradition of everyone taking turns to interact with customers.

This time, we delivered the first Pis ourselves.

That moment of wow expressed by the customer after opening the packaging was worth it :)

 

 

Photos of Pi ready to be shipped to you!

Today marks a milestone in our company's history, and hopefully for your reading as well - Here are the Pis in our office about to be delivered to our eager customers!

 

  

 

Pi in a box

If you're curious on how Pi will be delivered to you, here's a sneak peek into the nice little packaging that Pi will be wrapped in:

The front of the packaging:

 

The back of the packaging:

We hope you will like the Indian touch we have given to the packaging, as well as the clear description on the capabilities of the device.

The Pi on the NDTV Gadget Guru Show

The NDTV Gadget Guru Show reviewed our Pi ebook reader recently and they loved it.

They covered a broad range of aspects, so check out this video to get a good overview of the Pi:

At the World Book Fair, Delhi

We're at the 19th World Book Fair at Pragati Maidan, Delhi. We are located at stalls 274-275 in Hall 1, and we are showcasing Pi, the ebook reader and our eBook store.

 

Demonstrating the Pi

  

Crowds browsing the collection and getting to know about eBooks!

  

Om Puri, the famous actor, checking out the Pi ebook reader 

Om Puri showing off the Pi to others!

  

Star status of Om Puri... and of Pi 

Please do give us a shout if you have visited our stall at the Delhi World Book Fair and let us know your thoughts, comments and inputs.

The Monk and the Pi

Many people have been asking us about why they should consider an ebook reader rather than carrying printed books, so we decided to creatively explain it with the help of a monk :)

Here it is:

Infibeam Pi: India's First eBook Reader

You can also view the same as a single page or as a video.

Now, if you ever get into a debate about ebook readers, you will have sufficient ammunition to explain the advantages!