I’m sorry, but there is absolutely no stolen IP here. It sure sounds and looks like a publicity stunt for a company that isn’t going to go far in the US market. You see, they are threatening to sue Apple, but lets compare products to see why I called the P88 Tablet the “Fat Bastard” of the iPad. Here is a visual representation:
So, what is the P88? Here are some specs compared to the Apple iPad. The P88 uses an Intel Atom 1.6GHz apparently, while the iPad uses a custom designed 1GHz Apple A4 system on a chip. The P88 requires conventional RAM starting at 1GB and no word as to what is goes up to. I don’t think anyone will care. The P88 is supposed to weigh in at 1.03kg which is a lot more than the .73kg for the iPad that is decked out. When it comes to storage, you have a battery sucking 160GB HDD in the P88 and not the 16, 32, or 64 gigs of Flash the iPad has. Then the screen; the P88 has a 10.2 inch screen while the iPad has a 9.7 incher. Connections on the P88? A lot for a “slate” with 3 USB ports, VGA, LAN, Microphone and Headphone ports, Card Reader, and the charging plug. The iPad has the headphone jack and a thirty-pin connector for myriad functions. Now here is the kicker, the battery life is 1.5 hours on the P88 and 10 hours on the iPad.
The thing is about 3 times as thick as the iPad, and short of the chrome surround, it is nothing like the iPad. I enjoy a good troll feeding every once in awhile, but this is just crazy. Someone thought that laughter was good marketing for their company.
GizChina has a post about it, The Register does too, CrunchGear picked it up, as did Shangaiist. As Shangaiist put it, the clone arrived 3 months before the iPad did. Which is great, if it weren’t for the painfully run-of-the-mill materials that make up the device features. I could probably build one of these out of anything I have in the office right now. I think I might have a Mac Mini I could convert into a tablet and it will have the same thickness.
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