Bangalore: Bharat Electronics Limited and PicoPeta Simputers today (March 26, 2004) unveiled the innovations-packed, much-awaited Amida Simputer, including one with a price tag of below Rs 10,000, at a launch ceremony here.

The product, to be promoted as a global brand, is ready for the market 18 months after BEL and PicoPeta signed an agreement to jointly productionise and market the Simputer platform developed by technology company PicoPeta.

"It has been a long wait. But I am sure, and everyone will agree, after experiencing the product, that the Amida Simputer is worth the wait," CMD of the Rs 2,000 crore BEL, Y Gopal Rao, said.

Stating that BEL is committed to the success of this innovative product, he said the company would bring its quality manufacturing expertise and technical support experience to Amida Simputer.

Several innovations are packed in the Amida Simputer.

Handwriting (in any language) and decoding on every screen, mailing these scribbles with a single tap, gesture technologies that allow changing a page or zooming of an image by a hanKd gesture are some examples, BEL officials said.

Several versions of the Amida Simputer are on offer to cater to a broad spectrum of people, including the much-awaited under Rs 10,000 Simputer, BEL said.