ArmInfo. ARMPHONE is a new step towards improvement of Armenia's economy, Vahan Shakaryan, President and Executive Officer at Technology and Science Dynamics (TSD) Company, said during the presentation of the first Armenian smartphone - ARMPHONE - today, on June 6.
He said the quality of the Armenian smartphone does not yield to the quality of popular analogues in the market of mobile technologies and the company is fully responsible for its product, starting from the production up to the service. Vahan Shakaryan said the Armenian technologies are promising and can compete on the international market, particularly, with Chinese developers. It is time to change the mode of thinking, he said.
As for the price policy, he said the price start from 50,000 AMD up to 150,000. The product will be available on the Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Kazakh and Belarusian markets so far. "We have studied the market. There is demand. At the current stage, the company is taking steps in the given direction," he said adding the export of the Armenian smartphones to Europe is a matter of time. Talking to ArmInfo's correspondent, a representative of TSD Cmpany Marina Aslanyan said five models of smartphones - 0502, 0505, 0508, 0509 Ё0520 - will come in retail, with some having 32GB built-in memory, operating on Android 5.1 or Android 6.0, 4G connections, and fingerprint identification. The phones can be purchased by installments through INECOBANK starting June 7.
ArmTab Technologies, L.L.C was founded in 2013 by the co-founder of Minno COmpaby Vahan Shakaryan on the basis tested at Minno. In January 2014, ArmTab Technologies and Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia signed a memorandum to introduced tablets at generation education system of Armenia. Robotics has become a new subjects at schools in 2015. ArmTab Technologies became the first company to be authorized to operate in the territory of MARS Plant's free economic zone created by the Russian Citronics Company in 2011.
ArmTab Technologies, L.L.C. provides assembly, quality control, packing, distribution, and service support for the ArmTab, the first Armenian designed Android tablet that provides users with high performance at an affordable cost. Founded by a consortium of IT professionals, ArmTab Technologies works in strategic partnership with Technology and Science Dynamics, Inc. ArmTab Technologies specializes in: engineering and technology, facility & process design/engineering, and forensic science.
Technology & Science Dynamics Inc. (TSD) is a Research and Development corporation located in Santa Barbara, CA, USA and Yerevan, Armenia with links to more than fifteen international research & development centers. The company was founded in 1998 and later renamed to TSD in 2013. The Armenian office of TSD was established in 2013 in a Free Economic Zone. TSD provides a vibrant, dynamic and multi-disciplinary research in the following fields: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Computer science and Artificial intelligence, Educational sciences, Electrical and Electronic engineering.