Thursday, October 14, 2010

VIA Wondermedia finds itself inside shrunken Apple iPad wanabe

When VIA's VP of marketing did the rounds earlier in the year to promote VIA Wondermedia's chips being used for sub-100 US dollar tablets, he didn't mention this one from ... who is it from? Like many Chinese manufacturers who release tablets that clearly resemble the iPad, when news and photos of them finally reaches English language media, their names are often absent from the picture.

This lovely looking tablet is a bit smaller than the Apple iPad, having a 7-inch screen and there are a few other glaring differences as well. Inside is the VIA 8505 chipset, 256MB memory and 2GB flash storage. It run a slightly older version of Android, v1.6.
I spotted this over at the English language shanzai.com site but traced it back (from their listed source) to this Chinese language site which interestingly, right at the very end lists a contact number for a Mr Li who can supply you with them! I wonder if he'll ship to Australia?

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