Are the folks over at Huadian nuts or what? They ought to have some sort of super lawyer to defend them, especially after stepping forward to promise that they will roll out an iPad 2 clone. Yes, you heard/read that right – giving the Chinese public a solemn promise that they intend to cross Cupertino’s legal eagles and ruffle their feathers by taking one of the hottest tablet devices in the market today, and churning out a clone while announcing such intention to the whole world.
Huadian’s effort will see plenty of design features and characteristics in the hugely popular iPad 2 make an appearance, ranging from the alloy contstruction to a 9.7″ capacitive touchscreen display and a thickness (or should we say, thin-ness) of 8.8mm. GizChina claims that the clone will be far inferior when you take it apart, since it runs off a much slower 800MHz AMLogic CPU compared to Apple’s 1GHz dual core A5 processor.
Other hardware specifications would be 512MB RAM (similar to the iPad 2), but it loses out where flash memory is concerned, maxing out at a paltry 8GB when the iPad 2 comes in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities. No idea on the operating system, but you can be sure that it won’t be iOS – will we see Android on it? How much are you willing to pay for something like this?