BQ (company)

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BQ
Company typeSociedad Limitada
Founded2009 in Madrid, Spain
Defunct2021
FateCeased operations
Headquarters
Las Rozas de Madrid (Community of Madrid)
,
Spain
Products Smartphones, Tablets, e-readers and 3D printers
Number of employees
1,028 (2014)
Website www.bq.com
BQ's Witbox 2 FDM-3D printer Imprimante 3D Witbox 2 dans un lycee de Bourg-en-Bresse (decembre 2023).JPG
BQ's Witbox 2 FDM-3D printer

BQ (former name: Mundo Reader) was a Spanish company brand of user electronics devices, such as smartphones, tablets, e-readers and 3D printers among other products.

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Among BQ's most notable products are the first AndroidOne mobile phone in Europe (the BQ Aquaris A4.5), [1] [2] [3] as well as both the world's first mobile phone and tablet running the Ubuntu Phone operating system, (the BQ Aquaris E4.5 and BQ Aquaris M10). [4] [5] [6] [7] In 2018, the Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup acquired 51% share of BQ and active in Vietnam under the name of VinSmart. [8]

History

The company started its business in 2009 importing e-readers from Asia. [9] In 2010 it started to produce its own tablets and e-readers. [9]

In 2013, the company had 600 employees and it produced 400,000 tablets and 100,000 e-readers. [10]

In 2014, the company entered the Portuguese market. [11]

In 2015, the company produced a smartphone (BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition) that runs the Ubuntu operating system. [12]

In 2016, the company released the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. [13]

In August 2016, the Spanish company BQ, about which this article is written, filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court against the Russian smartphone manufacturer Antares LLC for the use of the BQ trademark. The Spanish company demanded three million rubles, but the Russian company claimed that it was using the brand legally. The court sided with the Russian company. [14]

Revenue, by year:

Mobile phones and tablets

AndroidOne:

Android high-end:

Android mid-range:

Android Cyanogen:

Ubuntu Phone:

Other:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Android One Enters Europe With BQ Aquaris A4.5". GadgetsNDTV. Retrieved 18 Sep 2015.
  2. ↑ "Google is launching Android One in Spain and it's going to be way more expensive than expected". BusinessInsider. Retrieved 21 Sep 2015.
  3. ↑ "Android One-Powered BQ Aquaris A4.5 Gets Two Years Of Google Support". TomsHardware. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 18 Sep 2015.
  4. ↑ "First Ubuntu Phone with 'Convergence' Is Being Made by Bq". OmgUbuntu. June 2015. Retrieved 1 Jun 2015.
  5. ↑ "First Ubuntu smartphone, Aquaris E4.5, launches into cluttered mobile market". ZdNet. Retrieved 6 Feb 2015.
  6. ↑ "Canonical Launches First Ubuntu Phone With Spain's BQ". GadgetsNDTV. Retrieved 9 Feb 2015.
  7. ↑ "BQ And Canonical Launch The Second Ubuntu Phone". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2 Jun 2015.
  8. ↑ "Vingroup bất ngờ công bố đã mua 51% công ty smartphone Tây Ban Nha, sẽ ra mắt 4 mẫu máy vào 14/12 tới". 3 December 2018.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 E. Arrieta (December 12, 2013). "El fabricante de tabletas BQ contratará a 400 personas, Empresas y Finanzas". Expansion.com. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  10. 1 2 Marimar Jimenez (November 27, 2014). "La española BQ presume de sus ventas millonarias de 'smartphones'". Cincodias.com. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Spain's bq expects to sell 100,000 smartphones in Portugal - Telecompaper". Telecompaper.com. May 23, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps". BBC News. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  13. ↑ "Canonical fulfills its Linux convergence vision". betanews. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  14. ↑ "ispanskii-rossiiskii-proizvoditeli-smartfonov-sporyat-brenda-bq". vedomosti. 29 July 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  15. ↑ Ramón Muñóz (25 May 2015). "BQ: Móviles con la marca España". El Pais. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  16. ↑ "BQ Aquaris X Pro - Full Spec - GsmArena". GsmArena.
  17. ↑ "BQ Aquaris X - Full Spec - GsmArena". GsmArena.
  18. ↑ "BQ Aquaris X5 Plus - Full Spec - GsmArena". GsmArena.
  19. 1 2 "BQ Aquaris X5 - Full Spec - GsmArena". GsmArena.
  20. 1 2 "BQ Aquaris M5 - Full Spec - GsmArena". GsmArena.
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