IGB Eletrônica S.A. (

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for ''IGB Electronics''), doing business as Gradiente, is a Brazilian

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company based in Manaus, and with offices in

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. The company designs and markets many product lines, including video (e.g. televisions, DVD players), audio, home theater, high end acoustics, office and mobile stereo, wireless, mobile/smart phones, and tablets for the Brazilian market.

History

The company was founded in 1964. In 1993 they founded Playtronic, a fully owned subsidiary who licensed the manufacturing of Nintendo consoles in Brazil, and while publishing games for various systems they also provided

translations of some games (among them, '' South Park'' and '' Shadow Man'' for the

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). However, they stopped the partnership with Nintendo in 2003 because of the high price of the dollar at the time. In 1997, Gradiente established a

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with Finland-based telecommunications manufacturing firm

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, where they were granted the license to manufacture variants of Nokia mobile phones locally under the Nokia and Gradiente brand names.

The Gradiente iPhone case

In 2000, Gradiente, now legally known as IGB Eletrônica SA, filed for the brand name "iphone" in Brazil's INPI (National Institute of Industrial Property, the trademark authority). Only by 2008 the Brazilian government granted full brand ownership for Gradiente, and currently (since January 2012), the company is selling Android-based smartphones under this name. Until 2008 that trademark is fully owned by IGB Eletrônica SA, which released its Android-powered ''iphone neo one'' under the Gradiente brand. The ''iphone neo one'' is sold for R$ 599 (about US$287), a dual-SIM handset running Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread. It has a 3.7-inch, 320 x 480 display, a 700 MHz CPU, 2GB of expandable storage, Bluetooth, 3G, WiFi and 5 / 0.3-megapixel camera.

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History

The Gradiente iPhone case

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