CREO
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| Private | |
| Industry | Consumer electronics |
| Founded | July 2013 |
| Founders | Sai Srinivas, Shubham Malhotra |
| Headquarters | Bengaluru |
Area served | India |
Key people | Sai Srinivass, Kiran G, Shubham Malhotra |
| Products | Smartphones, Operating Systems, Wireless HDMI streaming devices |
Number of employees | 70 |
| Website | http://www.creosense.com |
CREO is an Indian technology company based in Bangalore that designs, develops and sells consumer electronics and operating systems.[1] Its hardware products include the streaming media dongle Teewe and the smartphone Mark 1 that operates on a proprietary Android based operating system called Fuel OS that updates itself every month by building features from ideas and suggestions given by its community of users.[2]
History
CREO, formerly known as Mango Man Consumer Electronics, was founded by Sai Srinivas, Kiran G and Shubham Malhotra in 2013. The first product they released was Teewe, a HDMI media streaming device. In 2016, the company raised $3 million from several investors - among them Sequoia India, Beenext Ventures and angel investors Kavin Bharti Mittal and Anand Chandrasekaran - to launch on the Indian market its smartphone Mark 1 and the Android-based operating system Fuel OS in the Indian market.[3][4][5] Also in 2016, the company opened 150 service centres and announced plans to open another 150 by the end of the year. CREO's products are available on the e-commerce website Flipkart and the company’s official website.[6]
Products
Teewe
The first product that the company released is the HDMI wireless media-streaming dongle Teewe which was relaunched as Teewe 2 in 2015. The dongle allows for a full HD quality streaming from the computer or phone to the television. The dedicated Teewe app for Android, iOS and Windows enables to watch YouTube; play stored videos, photos and music tracks; and universally search through all of the stored content.[1]
Mark 1
In 2016 the smartphone Mark 1 was launched which comes with a proprietary Android- based operating system called Fuel OS. Its operating system is also suitable to be used by other local Indian smartphone manufacturers to live up to the standards and expectations of the users in the smartphone market.[3] The phone comes with a 21 MP rear camera with Sony Exmor IMX 230 sensor and a Full HD 8MP front camera. In terms of performances, the phone is provided with 1.95 GHz True Octa-core processor, 32 GB storage expandable up to 128 GB and a 3GB LPDDR3 RAM.
Fuel OS
Fuel OS, the proprietary operating system of Mark 1, includes the Retriever system app that lets its user trace a lost phone without internet access.[7] Sense is a search engine that allows users to access the content of their phone.[8]
References
- 1 2 Rajmohan, Sooraj (7 May 2016). "Makers of the Mark". The Hindu. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ Kanwar, Tushar (24 May 2016). "Review: Creo Mark 1 Smartphone Is Purely Meant for Its Software". The Quint. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- 1 2 "Startup CREO launches its first phone, the Mark 1". GSM Arena. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ Shuh, Catherine (21 January 2016). "Indian Startup CREO Raises $3M To Build Its Own Android-based OS And Smartphones". TechCrunch. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ Shrutika, Verma (15 June 2016). "Angel investor Anand Chandrasekaran to focus on investee companies". Live Mint. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ "Creo Mark 1 QHD smartphone available on Flipkart at Rs 19,999". Zee News. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ Bhawani, Chetan (19 April 2016). "Deep Dive into Fuel OS of CREO Mark 1 – Features Included". Gizmo Times. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ Maxham, Alexander (1 June 2016). "Review: Creo Mark 1". Android Headlines. Retrieved 1 July 2016.