Most of the
Android based
tablets coming out of China have a very
iPad look to them. Some of the tablets are just unfortunate enough to be coming after the
iPad and as such get labeled as ‘
knock offs’, but others well and truly deserve the title.
This Shenzhen made
tablet is almost a 1:1
clone of the
iPad. The screen is a
9.7 inch resistive unit with a large black bezel and home button, like the
iPad. The casing is
alloy look, rounded on the back just like the
iPad. And the sides of the unit house a single mono speaker, volume rocker, rotate lock switch, and power/standby button, again just like the iPad! There’s even a 30 pin dock connector!
Even the outdated
Android 1.5 O.S has been totally revamped to give it an
iPad iOS look.
But there are a few areas where this
clone differs from the the original such as the micro SD card slot on the same edge as speaker, oh and there isn’t an
Apple logo on the back! That’s it! from the outside you’d really be hard pressed to tell this
clone from the real thing.
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Under the hood we can see some big differences such as the O.S being very outdated (as mentioned above) and a very modest 400MHZ CPU running things. There is also 2Gb of built in
storage and 256mb of
RAM.
These very modest
specs aren’t going to set the world a light, but they’re more than up to the job of running Skype, flicking through an e-book, or sending some emails. Another plus of the low
specs is the price. Expect to pay around 850 Yuan for this little tab once it’s released which is roughly $130!