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Can’t wait for the iPad to come to your region or can’t afford the real thing? The Naked Surfer discovers a lookalike originating from China, which costs much less.
With the frenzy over the recent global release of Apple’s iPad, the must-have gadget for millions of people worldwide, it is thus not surprising that a similar product, with an almost similar name, is on sale in China - the iPed.
This clone looks very similar to the iPad and even functions as it does. It runs on Google's Android operating system and powered by an Intel chip.
According to reports on tech sites you can buy the iPed in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen for US$105, about a fifth of the price of iPad, which retails for US$499 (the lowest end model).
The video above was filmed by a Japanese TV news crew and posted on Youtube. It shows the iPed being sold in a Shenzhen computer mall in packaging that even looks like an iPad box. (The video is in Japanese, but no words are necessary to understand what it is about).
Tech website, TECHi, in reviewing the iPed describes it as "an Intel-driven, Android-based copycat packaged like an Apple product and, to be honest - it doesn't look half bad."
