Even before it was put on sale, the iPad Mini has already been cloned! A Chinese company that goes by the name GooPhone announced the launch of its newest tablet, the GooPad Mini, which will be sold at the “absurd” price of 99$, costing 230 $ less than the iPad Mini, which will be sold at 329 $ (cheaper version).
Let's see some specs of the GooPad Mini:
- Screen. 8 inches (such as the iPad Mini)
- Resolution of 1024 * 768 Screen (such as iPad Mini)
- Processor Dual-core, 1.4Ghz
- 1GB de RAM
- Chamber rear 2MP and front of 0.3MP
- System Android 4.1, with iLouch (iOS theme)
- Coating in aluminum
Doing a cost / benefit analysis GooPad is at least a marvel, but given the poor quality of Chinese hardware (which we already know very well, right?) Obviously GooPad will not become a forte competitor for the iPad Mini.
And there's more ...
The GooPhone novel and Apple has had other chapters, as previously published. The Chinese manufacturer has already released cloned versions of the iPhones 4 and 5, which it called the GooPhone Y5 and i5. Through published images published even before the launch of the iPhone 5, GooPhone “stole” the design and launched the i5 in advance, registering the product's patents in China thus gaining design rights (in China) and already threatening to sue Apple for “plagiarism” (only this one was missing, isn't Samsung enough?).
See the image below published by the blog Kuwaitiful.com, making a very interesting comparison between the GooPhone i5 and the iPhone 5.
CONCLUSION
On the one hand, the GooPad Mini it came to give us the opportunity to feel the sensation of having an iPad Mini in our hands (even if it is a clone), on the other hand it is still a “theft” to our beloved Apple.
And technological warfare is still far from over, I just hope it's not us (consumers) being harmed! And you reader? What did you think of this article?
[Source]: GizmoChina.com
