Oh! Look! It's an iPed!

[Num3]

Costs around 100 Dollars...

It's a China made iPad clone, running on Android...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q599sQ41 ... r_embedded

You gotta admit, they are getting better and faster in making clones

I personally have a sciphone I68++ (aka iphone clone) and i'm happy with it...

Of course it's not perfect and has some flaws, but i got exactly what i was buying for 50 bucks....

[SFSxOI]

I think its a real iPed physically, they just put Android on it.

[Num3]

I don't think it's an iPad.

It's a clone... The hardware components have to be cheaper and less robust... For 100 bucks, don't expect the same quality.

Has i said above i can't complain about my iPhone clone, it works and has not failed me yet!

Hmmm... Come to think about it, iPed has some advantages over iPad...

Costs less... And it runs flash !!!

[GWarner]

And I'll bet if they use the cell phone network you won't be restricted just one carrier. Or they chose to use Wi-Fi and avoid the issue entirely.

[yoxola]

I have a chinese "Hackintosh", well it actually works BETTER than original Mac.

As Apple only use "closed hardware structure" and sells over 5x price as the real price the components cost, can't see a reason why it can't be done cheaper.

>It's a clone... The hardware components have to be cheaper and less robust... For 100 bucks, don't expect the same quality.

Must admit there're nearly no proper support or future expansion on the product itself but the hardware isn't bad due to the hardware is damn cheap in China.

Overall, unable to be any competitor, but is nice for personal use.

[the.weavster]

Costs around 100 Dollars...

It's a China made iPad clone, running on Android...

Cool. Personally I think it would be more useful with Ubuntu/Hildon but I guess Android is more hip and trendy.

[jamba]

any idea where to buy one of these?

I see lots of Apad and Archos type android tablets, but I have not seen this one for sale

what kind of hardware is in this iPed? the APad's tend to have slower cpu's and such than the real iPad (but have other goodies like usb ports, etc)

[Num3]

any idea where to buy one of these?

I see lots of Apad and Archos type android tablets, but I have not seen this one for sale

what kind of hardware is in this iPed? the APad's tend to have slower cpu's and such than the real iPad (but have other goodies like usb ports, etc)

Google is your friend

http://www.apad.tv/

[the.weavster]

any idea where to buy one of these?

http://www.diytrade.com/china/4/product ... c=prd&ns=1
http://www.eletroworld.cn

[Little John]

I'll wait until the release of an iPet.

[Num3]

I'll wait until the release of an iPet.

Shhhhh... That's apple's next big thing!!!

[SFSxOI]

I wonder if they got a license from Apple to steal their IP technology? A lawsuit, or other legal action, could force an injunction or order which would prevent the clone (if thats what it really is) from being allowed for import to countries to which such an injunction or order applies. This would make posession of the clone illegal in those countries after the injunction/order goes into effect. Apple did it to PsyStar, a MAC Clone producer (filed for bankruptcy I think due to the Apple lawsuit against them in 2009).

I wonder also if this is the same Apple chineese manufacturer partner that treated its employees so badly in terms of basic human rights violations that several of them comitted died (by suicide)?

[GWarner]

Last night I saw a news bite about Steve Jobs showing off the new "iPhone 4" and that his demonstration got derailed because the wireless network had all the users it could handle and wouldn't accept any more users until the nuber of active users went down. I thought it was hilariously funny.

But durring that same news bite they said that Android was now ahead of Apple in market share of smart phone OSes. They showed that Android had a 24% market share while Apple had only 21%.

I think the iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches (only because it's an iPhone without the phone) will eventually suffer the same fate as the Macintosh. It makes a big initial splash, rides the "wave" for a few years, then slowly sinks to a minimal market share because consumers realize their choice are being limited by Apple. They want the ability to make their own choices so they reject Apple and its imposed choice limitation, and switch to something else that gives them back their ability to choose.

[the.weavster]

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Somehow I got a double post.

[the.weavster]

I wonder if they got a license from Apple to steal their IP technology? A lawsuit, or other legal action, could force an injunction or order which would prevent the clone (if thats what it really is) from being allowed for import to countries to which such an injunction or order applies.

Devices like these have been available in China for quite a long while, it looks like they have just altered the appearance of some to make them look more like the iPad, I doubt they've got any Apple DNA in them. Search YouTube for 'Smart Q7' for example and see how old the reviews are.

But during that same news bite they said that Android was now ahead of Apple in market share of mobile device OSes. They showed that Android had a 24% market share while Apple had only 21%.

That's 24% and 21% of 'smart-phones' not 'mobile devices', Apples market share of 'mobile devices' is around 2.7%.

Also, the smart-phone statistics should be taken with a very large pinch of salt as there is no industry standard definition of what constitutes a smart-phone. Most statistics regarding smart-phones found on the Internet originate from either Gartners or IDC, these have both come up with their own criteria for what makes a smart-phone (and btw they are different from each other), these criteria serve to exclude many of the most powerful and popular handsets from major companies like Samsung and LG (some have suggested possibly by design) making Apple and RIM seem much bigger players than they really are. If Samsung and LG were so minded they could give their handsets a few minor tweaks to fit the criteria and you would very quickly see the RIM/Apple market share figure plummet (by that I don't mean because their sales were going down but because they would be smaller fish in a bigger pond). Some of the criteria are not about the functions available but how those functions are implemented - if it runs locally on the device it's smart, if it uses the network it's not even if the latter is actually more logical and more efficient.

I think you're probably right about how Apples place in the market will eventually shake down.