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.
While the Iped is from China, the video is from Japan. The ¥ 9600 price is in yen not yuan. It costs about a hundred bucks.
I’m in Hong Kong and go across the boundary to mainland China sometimes. ¥ is used to represent Chinese Yuan there, although it’s more often seen representing Japanese Yen elsewhere.
Argey
Amesome – USB support & ‘supports tons of filetypes’ puts it head & shoulders above the iPad!
If they churn one out with more memory & a faster processor for a little bit more cash it would sell like crazy.
Hell, if this one can run Google maps decently it would make a pretty good big screen sat-nav.
“Look… me and the McDonald’s people got this little misunderstanding. See, they’re McDonald’s… I’m McDowell’s. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.”
LOL, classic film right there!
I love this, but looking at it, it’s so underpowered.