Chinese company pre-emptively clones iPad

Message-Id: <20100130063009.0BF1B3072340@node2.byetcluster.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:30:09 -0500 (EST) From: root@admin2.byetcluster.com (root) SHANGHAI: The unveiling of Apple''s iPad paper computer was digit of the most expected profession events in past years, but a kindred hunting figure has been on sale in China for nearly sextet months. The touchscreen iPad look-alike marks a newborn mark by Asiatic manufacturers: cloning a creation before it had even been announced, mused a Shanghai municipality journal website. But Shenzhen Great Loong monastic Industrial Co. -- makers of the Asiatic device, which resembles an over-sized iPhone -- said Apple appeared to be the copycats. "We don''t understand. Why did they make the aforementioned abstract as us?" Huang Xiaofang, an executive at the company, said. The iPad-like "P88" was launched in August and was on show last assemblage at the Internationale Funkausstellung consumer electronics clean in Berlin, she said. "We launched it earlier," she said. Although thicker and heavier than the iPad, the P88''s specifications boasts a slightly large screen, faster processor, large memory and, different the iPad, has USB ports, according to the manufacturer. But its battery life is exclusive 1.5 hours compared to the iPad''s 10 hours. Apple''s prototypal iPads module board worldwide at an entry-level price of 499 dollars in digit months. But for gadget fanatics who cannot wait, Huang said the P88 is available now on Great Loong Brother''s web site.
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