iPed: The Chinese Knock-off iPad Running Android

So the Chinese can't innovate, but they can copy?

They've been doing it for years. However, they did invent gunpowder

For some reason, for $105, this seems far more useful than the iPad, esp. considering this is running Android.

we taught them well how to mass produce and do it quite cheaply... so go figure... is anyone really surprised by this though? im only surprised how fast it made it lol

So they can't be sued for having such a similar looking product with an obviously similar name? or is it because they're safe behind the great firewall of china?

Ha, ha!
Indeed, the OS is the most attractive feature.

Bahahaha and it runs Flash XD

It wont be long before I start seeing these flood eBay in mass.

rounder edge, thicker boarder. No need to look twice to see its not an ipad.

Sure Apple can sue... winning is another matter. Considering how many clones come out of China of other products that can't be stopped (womens designer handbags being a prime example) how much success do you think Apple would have? Personally, I think it would be a waste of money trying.

As for innovation... the ipad isn't innovative... it's a big itouch. Apple is known as a company that takes every day technology, wraps it in pretty consumer friendly packaging then markets the hell out of it.

No we didn't wow is everyoine really like this in the US!

Can't innovate? And the iPad isn't just a fancier version of tablet PC's and such that have been around for a while now? Nobody innovates anymore, they just take ideas and make small changes. For some reason people think apple innovates, they haven't innovated, they just play to morons who follow like lemmings.

Funny, I thought the Chinese didn't need Google and pretty much told them they could care less if they stayed in China but they sure are happy to use the Android OS. Hypocrites!

Actually is more attractive to me then an ipad, mainly because of android though.

While I don't copying a product as closely as possible is the greatest idea, Being from a country that tends to get things last, If a company chooses to halt the delivery of a product in a country after the release in another then every other company should have free rein to copy it until such point as it is actually available on the market. If they cant make enough of them to release then they shouldn't be releasing it yet. Same thing with under-stocking.

Dont confuse government with population!!


As for the iPed! simply awesome, costs 1/5th and performs 90% of the iPad!

Ekk...It looks like it lags a lot and the touch screen isn't very responsive.

Don't worry, The All Mighty Steve Jobs will stop the Chinese

The quality of the iPed is the same as the quality of this article...lame.

Its all business, there is no need to innovate if it makes money. We the west taught them the core basics of capitalism and they are out playing our game.

The minute you start production in China, you can kiss your technology and Intellectual Properties goodbye. They learn and copy fast, and will come back at you in a very short time.

Apple can't Innovate? What other 9.7ish inch screen devices run for 10hrs? And get away with 4 buttons and a switch to do all that an ipad does?

And no the ipad isn't a fancier version of a tablet pc, it's a cell phone stretched out.

Also lemmings don't run off cliffs, they make it look like they do so the predator following them only think they did, meanwhile the lemming is chilling on a ledge just off the side of the cliff safely waiting predator to pass.

People that think lemmings actually run off cliffs, are just morons that were tricked into believing a false myth.

They ha ha did it, ha ha, but I'm surprised ha ha gunpowder, hanna mass production, ha ha, prefer the OS. There; did I capture all of the stuff discussed in the thread?

-It supports Flash and uses an open OS such as Android
-Has USB support among other card reading capabilities
-It costs less

It's a sad day when a knockoff is so much more better...

Actually, the Chinese did not invent gunpowder on purpose, they accidentally invented it. They just got lucky.

If you'll check the Youtube video from which the picture is taken, the product is called APad, the iPed is the name "replacement" of the iPod software, as seen on the box of the product.

So... double check and correct the title to "APad". Cheers!

Ive done my reseach into this thing, its battery is absolutely awful.. Around 5 hours.. But still, 100 bucks, you get what you pay for.

@nukemaster it's an iPed not an iPad and the price point is good compared to Apple..

It's cheaper than the ipad , and it runs android.
That's the kind of ipad i love. it's more useful too.

Actually it seems not to be the Android latest version on the video, so no flash from now on ...

Touch screen fkn blows... I'd take a better touch screen over a decent OS anyday... cuz the whole pt of the device is to give a enjoyable experience that a good quality touch screen, makes possible.

Besides, the Apple OS ain't that bad..

"So the Chinese can't innovate, but they can copy?"

I think you have a good assessment of Mr Jobs in general. He has shown a complete inability to innovate and a great ability to copy. With the unconditional support of the US media and the market capitalization that his company has secured as a consequence of it, Mr Jobs can put out in nice packaging and with cheap hardware, anything that has already been developed by someone else and claim it as Apple's invention. The average American is sooo dumbed-down both technologically and analytically that they just believe whatever they are told and rush to buy the work of the propaganda conartist Mr Jobs, the US media poster boy and "genus".

I see nothing wrong with China capitalizing on the propaganda and hype created around the iPad. Historically the Chinese have displayed an uncanny mastery at packaging, and it is precisely here that the con-artist and propagandist Mr Jobs excels. He is a great packager of other people's technology in nice casing.

Enjoy it until it explodes in your hands.