Sunday, October 20, 2013

Zinox makes another first with Z-Pad


Proudly Nigerian Zinox Technologies group has scored another first with the launch of its Z-Pad into the nation’s Information Technology (IT) market space.

Disclosing this to DigitalSENSE Business News at the weekend at Zinox headquarters, chairman of the group, Dr. Leo-Stan Ekeh said that they are partnering with FoxConn, the company behind most of the world production of renowned Pads and Tablets.

He noted with this kind of partnership with FoxConn, Zinox is not coming to the market place, especially in Nigeria with anything short of global standard in its Z-Pad.

“We cannot afford to give Nigerians anything less, so we are partnering with FoxConn,” he declared.

This is coming as he confirmed that Zinox would commence shipping into the market by November, which means that Nigeria who desire this world class product could pre-order at any Zinox offices nationwide.

Ekeh who was supported at the media launch by erudite scholar, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe and chief operating officer of the group, Mr. Emmanuel Onyeje, pointed out that Zinox Z-Pad comes to town with Third and Fourth Generation compatibility respectively in various versions with either Windows Operating System or Android, assured, Z-Pad series, would be cost effective.

“So, we have been working with Foxconn because we wanted to go with the best and we got through a few months ago, due to technology changes very often. We call ours Z-Pad just to resound that Zinox identity,” he asserted.

We shall start shipping into the marekts in November, but when people see this Z-Pad it may look very simple, but it came with a lot of contents. We have the 7", 10" and multiple flexible that you can pull-out use as a laptop or as a pad. We went through all the relevant international certifications, but the strength that differentiates us from others, iPad , Dell or HP is our local content. When you power it, you will see that we have already embedded with it the Nigerian centenary history.

“So, we came up with this, we are not yet shipping, it has 3G, Wireless Fiderlity (WiFi) and uses SIM card and 4G,”

According to him, this is what Zinox has been working on for sometimes now, explaining that Z-Pad is on Android.

“The 7 and 10 inches Z-Pad we are running on the Andriod, but the bigger platform, 11” is running on Microsoft’s Windows because of its compatibility challenges for some people, so we have options,” he elucidated.

As Nigerians, he said, Zinox appreciates cultural heritage and nobody can do it more than Zinox can only do it for Nigeria.

Z-Pad, he further said, gives Zinox an opportunity to showcase Nigerian former leaders, prominent Nigerians, soccer stars and advice on business needs, and technology trends, among others.

“All these we can advice from a local content point of view and foreign brands would not be able to deliver on this perfectly as we in Zinox would do.

DigitalSENSE Business News gathered that for an entry, Zinox is hitting the market with three versions of its Z-Pad in version 5, 6 and 7 respectively as entry point in the interim.

For Z-Pad version 5 which is the 7" with a dual core processor, memory, flash drive access point, while the version 6 is a 10" tablet with a dual core processor, memory, harddrive and all differentiating factor of Zinox brand.

The third one, DigitalSENSE Business News gathered is the version 7 is 11" which comes with core 3 processor, memory, harddrive in addition to Windows 8 Operating System with Office already embedded in it, even as it could be used as a laptop or tablet.


DigitalSENSE Business News recalls that Zinox sees its intervention as a spiritual mustard seed that is destined to challenge capitalist structures of the 20th century by promoting a knowledge economy through digital democracy.

This is why Zinox prides as the pioneer manufacturer of Nigeria's first internationally certified branded computers, institutionalized high end ICT solutions by moving the sector to the next level.

Zinox, therefore, has flourished into one of the leading ICT ecosystem on the continent of Africa, with strong interests in computer hardware manufacturing, distribution, critical ICT solution, telecoms, and world-class after sales support.

... Making SENSE of digital revolution!

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