By Chris Chang, posted Jun 4, 2010 at 6:24 AM, 12,162 views,

The Badass iPad Knockoff That’s Powered by Android 2.1

After the magical iPad’s first 60 days of availability on Earth, the knockoff makers have finally built the truly remarkable iPad wannabe which looks pretty awesome in many ways. It’s gonna be the next big thing, with its powerful Android OS.

The first thing you need to know is that this is not a crappy iPad knockoff. It’s a 10-inch Android tablet and got the same power as Apple’s iPad. The 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor in this badass got what it takes to compete with iPad’s 1GHz A4 CPU. Just like the original, there’s no right way or wrong way on using it. With it’s built-in accelerometer, you can rotate in any way you like. Next, it’s equipped with an USB standard port and a mini-USB port. As a bonus, the mini-USB port supports direct connections between OTG (on-the-go) devices. That means you can navigate through files and folders on the device while it’s connected to the computer.

Speakers are located on the sides while we see Apple put them on the bottom of the iPad. They sound as good as the ones on the original.

Volume up/down buttons are available on the sides, and here includes a micro-SD card slot and a special mini-Ethernet port. This particular mini-Ethernet port let you plug in the standard Ethernet cable through a converter. It looks like this feature is somehow useless.

On the back, it’s so clean that you might want to stick your lovable Apple sticker on it. Not sure if it’s made of aluminum or plastic for the outer-casing.

It’s great to know that this device comes with Android 2.1, which brings many features and probably the best alternative option in comparing to the software we have seen on Apple’s iPad. Yup, you get plenty of apps too.

With Wifi included, all the world’s websites are in your hands. The web browsing experience is not bad on this thing, and you can either browse the web in landscape mode or portrait mode. However, you can’t use it to compete with iPad’s blazing speed of going through tabs to tabs.

It comes with a 10-inch display, with the resolution of 1024×600 pixels. It is slightly thicker than an iPad, but with its thinness of 0.7 inch, you won’t mind about it. What’s more, it plays all kinds of video files including MKV and it’s capable of playing all types of 720p high definition videos too. If you are thinking to try 1080p, maybe it’s still not powerful enough to handle yet.

Of course, it includes Google Maps too. The manufacturer of this iPad knockoff is thinking to include GPS function in it to attract drivers to buy the device and install to their cars.

This is the motherboard inside the machine. Rocking a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor and Samsung RAM chips, it seems like the knockoff makers have put much effort to build this awesome device. Also, you get a promised five hours of battery life with WiFi on. At the moment, we are still waiting for its official announcement for the price tag and when it’s going to be available for sale. We will keep you updated as fast as possible.

Source: Shanzhaiben

P.S. This is the same device with the one we introduced previously.