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.
LOL. idiots.
Actually, at 1:52 you see the price. It is 9600 JPY (Japanese Yen, they are the ones reporting the story) and 730 CNY (Chinese Yuan, conversion just to the right of the Japanese price). Both of those figures are $106.00 american.
The currency conversion cited in the post is from Japanese Yen to USD; it should be from Chinese Yuan to USD. Although they use the same currency symbol, the conversion rates are quite different. Google “9600 RMB in USD” to get today’s conversion, approximately 1,406 USD. Hardly a compelling deal.
Watch the video, it’s 9600 JAPANESE DOLLARS, which is 730 RMB. Retard.
Yeah just got back from HK/Shenzhen area and saw them in the local market with the cell phones. I saw many people lined up to buy them and though man these chinese have a lot of money to be buying black market Ipads. Upon a closer look I saw the Apad/Iped device and they are right it’s slow and doesn’t last more than a few hours on battery. But for the price of 750 yuan it would be a good ebook reader for sure.
BTW the exchange rate is around 6.81 yuan per Dollar.
Dear Der Jon,
This is a Japanese newscast. In the newscast the woman states, in Japanese yen the iPed cost 9,600 yen ($105). next to the price in in Japanese yen is the price in Chinese yuan (730 yuan). It is also stated quite clearly in the article.
So the cost is 730 yuan, 9,600 Japanese yen or $105… not $1,405