We’ve seen plenty of iPad clones, but Moonse’s new E-7001 tablet will sell for as little as 900 Chinese yuan (or about $130) if it is ever available. For that price you get a 7-inch touchscreen, a 600MHz Rockchip RK2808 processor (which might be upgraded to a Cortex-A8 before launch), Android 1.5, an SD card slot, built-in WiFi, and five hours of battery life.
It’s a bit thicker than an iPad, and supposedly weighs just 0.7 pounds, which is about half the iPad’s weight. There’s also a front-facing camera and a USB port.
Hopefully it will be available soon.
[Engadget]
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Android, clone, iPad, knockoff, Moonse
Want.
Apple would patent electrons if they thought they could get away with it. These “knockoffs” are just competing devices which would be perfectly legal and certainly not called knockoffs in a world with sane intellectual property laws. An iPad is just a giant PDA. Pretending like it’s anything other than a refinement of old ideas is insulting and ignorant.
I’ve been wondering my whole adult life why no one released PDAs with nothing different except bigger screens and bigger batteries. I still don’t understand it really.