The $100 iPad: China’s Android-based ePad

Sep 23, 2010

Forget Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy, the future is cut-rate Android products!

I recently purchased this Android-based ePad from China for 800RMB (roughly US$100).

The main upside is the price and how people might mistake it for being an iPad. The ePad is slow, does not have a two-finger touch screen, but it does have space for an SD memory chip and USB.

The version of Android is designed for phones, so it is not optimized at all for a tablet.

I am not interested in whether the ePad will compete with the iPad (it will not), but the ePad does show the growing market for a second tier of consumer electronics.

This is the kind of “bottom of the pyramid” product that we will to see coming out of Indonesia, India, China and other large markets.

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Nice information, but the Samsung Galaxy Tab is much better than this china tablet because its features and function are great which is also much better than other.
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There are lots of "Pads" from China - ePad, aPad, etc. But still iPad is a king of the market of tablets.
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how much is it?
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Samsung Galaxy Tab is also running Android. And it doesn't copy the iPad. Well, of course it's much more expensive, but maybe you'd better paid your attention to it?
P Clarke Thomas

if it is running Froyo (Android 2.2) than the 2-finger operation will work. Optimally a large Nexus One or Motorola/HTC Droid(X-Incredible) would be a great iPad competitor. As they're 1Ghz CPU & loads of memory would not have you seeing the performance degradation as compared to the iPad
Trey

I'm guessing it has a resistive touch screen instead of capacitive. Smart software can't always overcome bad hardware.