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 ($105)? Yes, please.
However, this device isn’t without its shortcomings. From the looks of this video, it’s mighty, mighty slow. Though allegedly powered by an Intel chip, the device apparently only sports up to 16gigs of space and runs on 128MB of RAM – in this technological climate, barely enough to power a calculator.
Whatever the case, this is by and large the most impressive ripoff from China I’ve ever seen – much better than, say, the KenSingTon ‘Chintendo Vii’ (which I swear is also a real product) – and proves one thing, if nothing else: they’re getting better (and faster) at this. Give ’em another decade, and Apple may consider taking this copycat business a bit more seriously.
Behold, as bewildered Japanese newscasters weigh in on the iPed’s sudden appearance on the Chinese market.
After reviewing the lack of intelligence (i.e. conversions) in this thread I now know why we are doomed as a race 😉
Maybe the guy is talking RMB 960 (Chinese yuan) which would be closer to that figure (US$ 105)
for just a few hundred bucks and with the things you can do with the iped, not bad,…it runs on android already..that alone should be considered as a jackpot already
can we have some intelligent discussion about the iped/apad/ipad instead of peurile arguments about currency conversions?
Yes,you’re right,it doesn’t matter about the conversion,this is all about Iped and Ipad…
you people really are stupid. why on earth can’t you figure out the conversions.