ConveGenius, an educational tech company, has teamed up with Lenovo to launch a new education tablet – the Lenovo CG Slate in India. The Android tablet is available exclusively from Flipkart for a price tag of Rs. 8499 (US$ 126) and there is a Rs. 1000 discount off for those who purchase early.
The company describes the Lenovo CG Slate as an NCERT curriculum-mapped, self-learning tablet for kids. It comes pre-loaded with contents previously limited to Convegenius’ B2B clients, which are State Governments, learning centres and large NGOs in Indonesia, India, Singapore and Malaysia.
Commenting on the launch of the tablet, MD, Convegenius Group, Jairaj Bhattacharya said;
“CG Slate is an affordable and comprehensive mobile learning solution, which uses the immense potential of gamification to personalise learning for kids, and supplements regular curricula taught in school with NCERT-mapped content. We are positive that CG Slate’s interactive lessons, games, videos and movies will enrich the overall learning experience of the young generation, and would be a real aid for parents.”
The Lenovo CG Slate is very similar to the Lenovo Tab 2 A7-20; it sports a 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) IPS display and runs Android 5.0 Lollipop OS. It relies on a quad-core MediaTek MT8127 processor along with 1GB of RAM and either 8GB or 16GB built-in expandable storage space.
The rest of the specs include – front 0.3MP camera, rear 2MP camera, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and Bluetooth 4.0. It measures 105 x 9.3 x 189 mm in dimensions, weighs 269 grams and is backed by a 3450mAh battery.
