Amkette is a multinational

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and manufacturer of

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and

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, headquartered in

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, India. The company launched a smart TV product called

EvoTV EvoTV is a range of digital media players developed by Amkette that brings internet and web2.0 features to the television. EvoTV was envisioned to be a substitute to the growing range of Smart TVs in the market. Instead of replacing complete tele ...

in 2012. The company's manufacturing facility is in China while the software team is based in

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

, India.

History

Amkette was started by

Rajiv Bapna Rajiv Kumar Bapna is the founder of Amkette, first-ever domestic manufacturer of floppy diskettes in India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seve ...

in 1984. It became one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of

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diskettes from India, selling to Russia and other countries in Europe. The plant manufactured 8", 5.25" and 3.5" diskettes. At its peak it had a production capacity of 30 million floppies daily. The plant was shut down in Jan 2013 and completely converted into a R&D center. In November 2014, the company launched a headphone with a sharing jack, Trubeats Tango, that allows listeners to connect additional listening devices to the headphone. In December 2016, the company launched the successor of its flagship product Evo TV 2 4k capable of playing 4k content. In the subsequent year, the company launched the next generation of Evo TV, the Evo TV 3 4K with an upgraded 2GB of RAM. After a decade of the launch of Amkette TV Box which converted normal TVs into smart TVs, In 2021, the company introduced its flagship product, EvoFox Game box in the Indian market.

Timeline

Projects

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Gaming Evo

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–

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controller that allows console style gaming on mobile phones combined with the Android Evo Gaming app. *

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certified Mfi cable – launched in December 2014, certified with Apple in two variations, 8 pin (for

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5/5c/5s/6/6Plus) and 32 pin (for 3g/4/4s) * Trubeats Tango – launched in November 2014, a headphone with a sharing jack (aux out) *

– launched mid-2012; a range of connected TV devices that converge web and multimedia features onto a TV * Amkette Acoustix – a lab within the Amkette R&D wing focussing on developing new sound drivers for headphones and headsets *EvoFox Gaming – Amkette introduced the EvoFox Gaming Accessories with the launch of the EvoFox Fireblade TKL gaming keyboard in 2020. Amkette's flagship product Evo Game Box TV and Evo Gamepad Pro 4 falls under the same category.

Products

Peripherals

The company manufactures computer peripherals such as keyboards and mice,

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hubs,

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s, and

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cables. In early 2010, the company entered the wireless segment, comprising

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s and

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that run on either

or wireless spectrum technology.

Audio

The company makes

headphones Headphones are a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears. They are electroacoustic transducers, which convert an electrical signal to a corresponding sound. Headphones let a single user listen to an ...

and headsets that run on

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is li ...

and wireless spectrum technology such as Air Budz and Urban series.

Accessories

Amkette also makes smartphone

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Multimedia devices

The company manufactures multimedia devices that work on Android platforms and can be connected to a TV. Amkette began development and marketing of media players in late 2009, by introducing the Flash TV 720p media player. In early 2011 the company launched FlashTV HD 1080p, which was a

Full HD 1080p (1920 × 1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the scre ...

media player. In mid-2012, the company launched a new media player called Amkette EvoTV, which was again a Full HD mediapPlayer powered by

References

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