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Tablet Bezel Images Revealed to Be From TESO iPad 'Clone'

In mid-January, The Mac Observer posted several images apparently of a front bezel that its source claimed was for Apple's forthcoming tablet device. We were skeptical of the images, which appeared almost identical to a stretched iPhone, and they did in fact turn out to be false.


Cloned in China today reports (via Engadget) on a new "iPad clone" from Chinese manufacturer TESO offering Windows 7, a 10.1-inch multi-touch screen, GPS and 3G connectivity. While TESO's offering is one of what will undoubtedly be many tablet devices mimicking the iPad, 9 to 5 Mac notes that this device appears to contain a front bezel nearly identical to the one previously touted as being for the iPad. The only exception is that small off-center hole near the "top" of the device is on the opposite side of the bezel from previous images. Consequently, it appears that The Mac Observer's source for the images was mistaken about the device for which the part was destined.

The confusion over the devices is similar to events that occurred in mid-2009, when a claimed bezel from a forthcoming iPhone was later found to actually be from a Creative Zii Egg.

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26 months ago
When do you think China will sue Apple again for patent infringement?
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26 months ago
What a POS.
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26 months ago

What a POS.


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They even stole the Home button. Not just copied it... Used it. (Given theirs is the device's top, and the giant useless earpiece is on the bottom.) Well, hey! That makes it totally different!
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26 months ago
I like this aspect ratio better than the iPad's... Especially as a professional photographer, where the proportions of the photos won't match the screen of the iPad.
And GPS will make it better than the iPad. Imagine how nice replacing your TomTom with a big iPad GPS on your dashboard. :rolleyes:
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26 months ago
The more I look at it, the more I realize that the aspect ration for the ipad is the right one. 16:9 makes it look straqnge and is only really appropriate for video viewing.
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26 months ago

I like this aspect ratio better than the iPad's... Especially as a professional photographer, where the proportions of the photos won't match the screen of the iPad.
And GPS will make it better than the iPad. Imagine how nice replacing your TomTom with a big iPad GPS on your dashboard. :rolleyes:


GPS isn't going to make this better than anything. It runs Windows 7, which makes it a desktop computer missing a keyboard.

A "tablet computer" that runs a desktop OS is a niche item. People in that niche won't want a consumer oriented device. They want it rugged and covered in every type of connector imaginable.

We'll see a lot of things like this after the iPad launches, and they all will fail, the same way the original competitors to the iPhone all failed. It took the industry 2 years to even figure out what the iPhone really was, and it's going to be the same for the iPad before it has any serious competition.
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26 months ago

The more I look at it, the more I realize that the aspect ration for the ipad is the right one. 16:9 makes it look straqnge and is only really appropriate for video viewing.


Not really just video. More so for the 2:3 aspect ratio of photos
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26 months ago
The iPad does have GPS...if you get the 3G model

Location:
Wi-Fi
Digital compass
Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
Cellular (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
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26 months ago
china needs to stop with all these bull products
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26 months ago
Archos are the kings of the Bezel now.


WTF is that thing?
:eek::p
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