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3Q (Trikyyu)

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Trikyyu LLC is the Russian company making the computer equipment and the accompanying accessories under brand 3Q.

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Number of employees
2014 year
50

Profile

The Trikyyu LLC company (brand 3Q) founded in 2006 is a producer of tablet computers, mediaplayers, external hard drives and optical drives, nettop and computer accessories.

Assets

Assembly of tablet computers 3Q is performed on own production capacities located Moscow area. The CEO of Trikyyu LLC Maxim Belousov in an interview of CNews[1] explained of 4/11/2011 that such placement of production is caused, generally the logistic reasons: component parts for brought together technicians are bought from the Russian distributors whose warehouses are located in Moscow. Besides, he speaks, from Moscow the main sales of the IT equipment in Russia are performed. Economic calculation of the company showed, Belousov says that economy on logistics and also a possibility of independent assembly and software testings block benefits from low cost of the Chinese assembly. Besides, the head of the Russian office 3Q notes, local assembly allows to diversify production, using one batch of the devices of several different types completing in production that would be impossible at remote work with the Chinese collectors.

The main retail channels of the company are networks "Svyaznoy", "Mediamarkt", "Mvideo", "Auchan", "E5", "Online trade", "ION", "Tehnosila".

Performance Indicators

The company does not open data on sales volumes of the devices out of special agreements, however in some directions there are quite certain digits. For example, on external hard drives the stable picture is for many years observed: the share 3Q varies from 8 to 12% depending on a year — the company takes the leading positions in nettopa in the computer CRN/RE market[2].

History

2006

On September 29, 2006 — date foundation of Trikyyu LLC. The first products in steel market external drives are external hard drives and external optical drives.

2007

Significant growth in sales of drives is noted;

2008

The company expands business and shows the first models of stationary mediaplayers and self-produced nettop;

2009

The new commodity direction — "Notebooks/netbooks" opens;

2010

In December, 2010 Trikyyu joined an action Intel on an output to the Russian market of the equipment under management OS MeeGo, a distribution kit Linux for mobile devices. According to the source in the company, sales of MeeGo-devices under brand 3Q made 3-4 thousand copies since then.

2011

In April, 2011, sales of the first line of tablet computers of Trikyyu company began. All three tablet PCs work at the Android platform, are constructed around a dual core chipset of NVIDIA Tegra 2 and will appear in the market under brand 3Q Qoo Surf. Two of three tablet PCs are equipped with 10-inch capacity displays (the third - 9.7 inches), and have, depending on a complete set solid state drive 8 up to 32 GB and RAM from 512 MB to 1 GB. The 3G-modem is built in devices. All tablet PCs of a line work running Android 2.2 (Froyo) OS, and the producer promises users to provide updating of OS at least to Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). Atop Android'a is installed in tablets the graphical user interface Tap UI of development of Tap'N'Tap company.

The battery life of devices, according to the statement of the producer, is 8 hours in the web surfing mode that is comparable to indicators of iPad which in the same mode can hold on, on average, 10 hours.

Producers carry the devices to a bonus segment. The price level on tablets 3Q is in the minimum complete set for different models at the level of 14,999 - 16,999 rub.

Unavailability of app store of Android Market will become unpleasant feature for users of domestic tablets. According to the head of notebooks and tablet PCs 3Q Imran Suleymanov, this feature is caused by the policy of Google. To official release of the "tablet" version of Android 3.0 the main Android developer does not license access to Market for devices with diagonal more than 7 inches (than and the commitment to this size of the screen of Samsung in its first Galaxy Tab tablet speaks).

According to the same Suleymanov, Android Honeycomb will be available to tablet PCs 3Q to summer of 2011. Till this time their owners should address for applications in alternative shops of programs for Android.

Despite this apparent defect, 3Q is going to occupy in 2011 with the devices 15% of the Russian market of tablet PCs, estimating the volume of this market at 500 thousand pieces.

The representative of the Russian division of NVIDIA Irina Shekhovtsova says that, by own assessment of the Moscow office of the company, in 2011 in Russia about 1 million tablet PCs can be sold, and about a half of this volume will fall to the share of products of Apple, "that enough place for other producers will leave in the market". According to Shekhovtsova, plans 3Q to sell in Russia in 2011 75 thousand devices look quite achievable.

According to CNews, soon Trikyyu will announce release of the tablet PC working for MeeGo.

2012

On March 23, 2012 the announcement of a line of batteries under own QEnerGO brand took place!, which first representatives were AA/AAA accumulators and chargers for them. On April 5, 2012 the large-scale press conference 3Q during which the new leader of TS1010C — the first Russian tablet computer on NVIDIA Tegra 3 was provided to journalists took place. In July, 2012 3Q offers the widest line of tablets in the world.

2013

At the beginning of 2013 3Q becomes the leader in quantity of different models of tablet computers on the Qualcomm platform. At the end of 2013 tablets 3Q with diagonal 7.85 inches were presented at the Russian market.

2014

January, 2014 was marked by the announcement of the thinnest RC7804F tablet computer in the world (6.44 mm).[3]

RC7804F is the thinnest tablet in the world

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