 So we're here at the Compitex 2015 and You're making this product. So who are you? We are a company called Jite. We have based our headquarters in Beijing China So we make these tablets. So it's a tablet that's Let's let's try it out on the table over there. Okay. Let's try it there. So Can you open? It looks pretty nice. Two angle. Yeah, nice. So you can sit on the table or sit on your lap. All right Right there So what is this UI that we're looking at? Is it Android? It's based on Android 5.0. It's called Remix OS. So you make the Remix OS? Yes, our software team make the Remix OS. It's modified based on Android We modified Android so that we put the PC experience into It looks like a tray bar here with some bunch of icons. Is this apps that you can just open? This is the apps that are already open. So it's kind of like a taskbar on Windows. And they open like windows? Yes, so for apps because a lot of the apps are designed for cell phones So we provide a switch between the phone mode and the full screen mode So for example, this is Skype. I can change it to full screen if I want to Whoa We have a full screen Skype. That's awesome. So you just click on your logo down there Yeah, and this is a special functionality. Nobody's ever done this before. No, it's a special function We come up with. So you either do this or you go full screen mode Yeah, this is full screen already and you want to switch back to phone mode It'll be a phone mode. Ah phone mode it so it looks like if it was on a phone Yes, because it's actually a window because a lot of the apps are designed for phone So if you switch it to phone mode it actually behaves like as if it's running on a phone So, can you make everything as small windows or only some apps? Almost all the apps. For example, this is Skype, this is ReChat Nice Cool This is really awesome. So you actually have three running windows right now? Yep, and just next to each other you have different apps running at the same time. What's the processor? The processor, this one is using a media Tegra 4 So Tegra 4, not K1, no? No K1 No K1, Tegra 4. Tegra 4. So it's a quad core, ARM Quartex A9, no? Yeah, and but you can do all this on the Tegra 4. Yeah, let me play a video. So I can play a video in a window and actually I can play multiple videos at the same time. Whoa That's a really powerful multi-window experience. I mean some people have been trying to do multi-window a little bit So how do you compare with the other multi-windows from Samsung and some other ones on Android? So I think the difference is first of all we invented this phone mode because we wanted the app to behave as they are on the phone Yeah Also, I think we also put a lot of work into multi-windows to make sure that 100% of the Android apps will behave well on this multi-window 100% of the apps just behave well. Well, we, that's our goal. Now it's currently at 99 something. Okay, which one doesn't work good? We constantly try, so we will try to go through the list of the top apps on Google Play and wherever we find an app problem we try to fix it. So We constantly try to improve the multi-window experience. So when it goes from this small window to the big It has to restart. There's no way to just make it. At this moment, yes For the next version, we allow them to automatically restart. So where is your design? Guys, the engineers, where are the base? They are all based in Beijing. All in Beijing. Nobody is in Shenzhen? For Shenzhen is our hardware manufacturing team. So the people making the hardware is made in Foscon Whoa It's manufactured by Foscon. All right. This is a high quality material, right? It's not gonna break. Yep It's aluminum So are you selling this already, you know? Yes We were on Kickstarter in March for a month and we raised a total of 250,000 USD And we are currently selling it on Amazon. So what was the price for each of them on Kickstarter? On Kickstarter, I think we give them a discount. So it ranges from 40, which is a heavy discount to 350 Did you say 40? Yes. The first ones, they go back to 40. First 200, we give out a promotion price. Cool And so what's the retail price? The retail price on Amazon now is 399 USD 399? So are you making a version with a faster ARM processor? Yes, we're actually making one with Qualcomm 8994 Likely by the end of this year with also 4G LTE capability. So 8994, did you say? Yes. Which one is that? Is that the? Qualcomm It's like the Snapdragon 805? 810 I think. 810. It's like the 810. So it's a big little 64-bit octa-core Yes. All right, this is gonna be really powerful. How about all the ports? Are they gonna be the same? So can we do this one? This is a speaker. This is a volume control and we have a marker USB here But we also give users a OTG connector so that you can actually connect this to a USB drive or USB TV Like this So this is just a standard OTG. So do you have a USB host? Yeah But you don't have full-size USB host on the actual? No, we don't Next generation hopefully we haven't added because There are a lot of users who actually wants that. How soon you will make the next generation Do you have enough funds to go quickly now? You can do next things. Yeah. Yeah. So how soon? Probably by the end of this year. So there will be also USB Type-C or What are the features maybe you're considering USB Type-C we're considering and also with a standard USB a So this this this version of Android is really really nice Are you considering maybe letting other people use your solution? Yes We actually work with a lot of other chipset companies and also IDH design houses OEMs to preload these Version of Android into their devices. So we work with also other chip companies like all-winner Qualcomm MTK to try to preload these OS into the other is anybody using it yet or not yet Yes, there are already people using that So which chipset is using MTK for example all-winner. Yeah, all right and Is it possible to have this kind of functionality based on the Basic Nexus kind of UI, but just adding the multi-window functionality that you have or maybe some other things We could but actually our like launcher actually works seamlessly with this So for example, like if I want to close an app This will actually close an app and also for I can drag an icon here to lock it here. Nice So that what you call it the tray the tray So the tray is pretty important for you UI and this this part is important Yep, but maybe the style of the icons could be more like a Nexus or is that totally up to yeah users can of course install other icon other apps But we try to make the UI consistent. This is just a normal tablet Just has only these two all the other stuff is you added right and how about the here? This is just a notification angel notification and switcher. So you have these kind of icons for the You can turn your Wi-Fi on and off then turn Bluetooth on and off So is it based on Android? What version? 5.0. So you are a lollipop. Yep 5.1 Maybe later. Maybe there. Yeah, is it stable from yep This is an internal version. So the current public version is based on 4.4 But we are going to launch this based on 5.0 version very soon. The backers on Kickstarter They already all got their device on. Yeah, they already all got a device So how many people were there about a thousand one thousand people everybody got it Everybody can go and order right now on Amazon. Yes, correct, and it's shipping Music is stock is there. Yep. Yep. So what is your background? How do you how are you able to do this? So three founders of giant all comes from Google so including myself I joined Google and work for Google for ten years before I quit and started my own for ten years You are one of the founders. Yes, kind of so you so three Googlers. Yep started this in Beijing Yes, correct. All right, and does it have The Play Store everything so the market is not China so much right mostly the rest of the world Yes, there's a China version and there's a global version for the global version with Google play with all the apps that users are used to and For China, of course, we have to have the China version of Google play So the reason you you spawn out of Google is because Google didn't want to do these functions or what? What's Google doing with the Android for they talk about Android for work But it's not really usable for like a laptop or something I think Google basically focused on the framework and also the underlying Security of the system, but we think that there's a lot we can do to make the UI more user friendly And also make it more PC like so the users can actually use it for work. Is it open source free? You don't you don't want to do that not at this moment because we are fast We were quickly iterating the UI and also building a lot of new features Would you consider doing something like that sometime in the future because maybe who would just take it and integrate into a real Android? Maybe in the future. Is there any business model that could work with that if people want to use your UI They have to pay a license. No, no, we actually working with power manufacturers. Give them the OS for free It's for them to use. So then how do you make money? I We believe that with enough user base We can profit by for example selling theme markets to users and also other promotions In the future you can make optimized apps for productivity correct and kind of like make money like that or something Yep, they just want as many people as possible to use your UI. Yes, you know in the short time frame we just want to push this out to users and to Produce a good experience for the user But is this this is just a home replacement or you modify the firmware a lot We modify the framework because in order to have all these apps running on it at the same time We have to modify the framework. That was the one thing I didn't show you. We actually We have very good keyboard and mouse support. So for example This is a trap head, but I can also use a mouse. I can do a right click to have a record menu So you can right-click. Yep, but now this is I should change it English. This is to hide them For example, and I also can enable the taskbar game. All right, and also in different Five and what we do this file manager app which allows you to have my documents my pictures and you can actually see that a bunch of files and then do a copy and Then paste it somewhere else This is really good to pace but and we need a lot more stuff like this right to become a real desktop Yeah, oh, I hope that more and more apps will support these and also the productivity for example, currently we have our own email app So do you provide API is or something for developers to do more desktop stuff or no need because they all They can already support these have a right click right click every app and Android can do stuff like that already They can support they can support right click and multi-window stuff multi-window and no need because we actually build the underlying framework And my who's off actually also have office on Android, which is a good thing So this actually brings the office experience into and into So my whole software document you can see that and you can control C2 copy. It seems really fast This is just next. This is a take reform. Yes. All right. So how long have you been working on this? That means it's been going on for a long time. We started building this early last year It's we build a software and hardware in about seven months and it's launched late last year Did you have to partner closely with the Nvidia to make it happen or we? Media we partner with force con who built the mechanical parts and also do the manufacturing for us