iPed Launches For $105 in China, Runs On Android
Sounding more like a banned iPhone app than a tablet, the iPed is exactly what you’re probably thinking: a Chinese knockoff. Now available (!!!) in Shenzhen, China, the iPed is an Intel-driven, Android-based copycat packaged like an Apple product, and, to be honest… it doesn’t look half bad. An Android device for ¥9,600 ($105)? Yes, please.
However, this device isn’t without its shortcomings. From the looks of this video, it’s mighty, mighty slow. Though allegedly powered by an Intel chip, the device apparently only sports up to 16gigs of space and runs on 128MB of RAM – in this technological climate, barely enough to power a calculator.
Whatever the case, this is by and large the most impressive ripoff from China I’ve ever seen – much better than, say, the KenSingTon ‘Chintendo Vii’ (which I swear is also a real product) – and proves one thing, if nothing else: they’re getting better (and faster) at this. Give ’em another decade, and Apple may consider taking this copycat business a bit more seriously.
Behold, as bewildered Japanese newscasters weigh in on the iPed’s sudden appearance on the Chinese market.
@Der Jon, you’re mixing it up with the Japanese YEN and Chinese YUEN.
Where did you find it Ivan?
If its like any knockoff in china they start at 9,000 Yuan and you wind up getting it for something like 600…. 9000 yuan is closer to 1000 USD though, not 100.
That’s Yen, not Yuan.
I found it for $250, so it’s not that appealing anymore.
er… so does this device cost ¥9,600 (which is $1,405) or $150 (which is ¥1,024)?
Which is it?
¥9,600 at the current conversion rate of about $0.0109US per Yen is about $105US. Don’t know where you got your figures there, but they are wrong 🙂
¥9600 is $105…
$1405 works out at ¥127960
$150 = ¥13661
Where did you get $150 from? The article says $105.
Plus whatever currency converter you’re using just doesn’t work… lol
Try this one http://www.xe.com
I think the problem is that some people are using Chinese yuan and some are using Japanese yen, which have the same symbol.
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