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

[MacRumors]

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.

Article Link: Tablet Bezel Images Revealed to Be From TESO iPad 'Clone'

 

[Xavier]

When do you think China will sue Apple again for patent infringement?

 

[WestonHarvey1]

What a POS.

 

[SkippyThorson]

What a POS.

+1

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!

 

[ppdix]

Better aspect ratio

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.

 

[Friscohoya]

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.

 

[WestonHarvey1]

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.

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.

 

[ppdix]

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

 

[MiniMark]

Gps...

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)

 

[goobot]

china needs to stop with all these bull products

 

[ChazUK]

Archos are the kings of the Bezel now.

WTF is that thing?

 

[BeyondtheTech]

I think Shaq will finally be able to appreciate "his" iPhone.

 

[pmjoe]

How exactly would this be a "clone" if its pics were leaked before the iPad was announced?

 

[bilibug]

Isn't that just one of those huge "iPhones-on-a-stick" that they use as displays in the Apple stores? I want me one of them!!

 

[Thex1138]

When I was in Shanghai last year, pretty much every electronics shopping centre, meaning that every floor sells mobiles... sold dodgy copies.
When you walk through, the shop people all spout 'iPhone', 'iPhone here' to all the tourists to crack some attention... If you look at them they pick up the FAKE bling... iPhone Mini, a large iPhone and the iPhone copy with TV [folding aerial], dual Sim, stylus & cranky looking OS... If you ignore them they simply stay waiting and do nothing... if you catch the eye of an assistant by mistake they scurry across to show you the fake iPhones... 'you buy you buy, nice phone good iPhone...'
That was pretty much every place that sold phones...
It is something I would expect in Japan but it was completely opposite when we got there... In Osaka and Tokyo they weren't scrambling over the counter for your attention...and everything was neat, tidy and well looked after...
One thing stood out in Japan... all the chemists/pharmacies competing against each other was kind of weird.

 

[SteveSparks]

What a POS.

The idea of making a clone like this is lame.

 

[batchtaster]

It is something I would expect in Japan but it was completely opposite when we got there... In Osaka and Tokyo they weren't scrambling over the counter for your attention...and everything was neat, tidy and well looked after...

Japan is home of the legitimate electronics companies, and they're more corporatized. That is, sure, they'll cram something down your throat, but they'll do it from a big faceless corporation level (Sony, Nintendo, etc), not a one-on-one person-in-the-street basis.

It's the environment in the World's Factory where the real items are outnumbered by the fakes, where forgeries are not policed properly, and they're not sold in legitimate stores where you get chased down the street by someone trying to offload their garbage.

Japan also tends to skew more sterile and dignified.

 

[Stetrain]

And GPS will make it better than the iPad.

That's a great point, except that the 3G iPad does include GPS.

 

[kiljoy616]

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

No this is not better than the MaxiPad from Apple but having had GPS built in for the non 3G would have been move in the right directions. GPS is so important considering how much you can do with it. Most of the time 3G means nothing to people its the GPS that they really get to use all the time.

So we are stuck with either no GPS, a hyped book reader or getting the more expensive one which we have to pay for service.

We can only hope they will upgrade it in next revision with GPS and Camera, but if the Fanboys eat the pad up, I don't see that happening for a long time.

 

[kiljoy616]

china needs to stop with all these bull products

Why should they stop, is apple going to pull out of china, i don't think so.

china will be china and we will be outsourcing it to them more and more.

can't wait till we start seen our missiles outsourced to china.

Oh wait they are already doing this, never mind nothing new.

 

[chocolaterabbit]

if anything it showed how unimaginative apple's ipad design was, as this was a copy of the iphone bezel scaled up, yet turned out to be almost identical to the real thing.

 

[Stetrain]

No this is not better than the MaxiPad from Apple but having had GPS built in for the non 3G would have been move in the right directions. GPS is so important considering how much you can do with it. Most of the time 3G means nothing to people its the GPS that they really get to use all the time.

So we are stuck with either no GPS, a hyped book reader or getting the more expensive one which we have to pay for service.

We can only hope they will upgrade it in next revision with GPS and Camera, but if the Fanboys eat the pad up, I don't see that happening for a long time.

1) GPS would be pretty useless without 3G, you would open Google Maps and the screen would be blank because you couldn't load map data.

2) You don't have to pay for service on the 3G model. It is unlocked and does not have a contract.

 

[Ca$hflow]

What's with the "speaker" on the top of this thing? Is it really a mono speaker?

 

[SpookTheHamster]

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.

If anything, I'd say the iPad is much more of a niche item than a tablet computer. A tablet computer could appeal to people looking for both a computer or a tablet, while the iPad can only appeal to those looking for a more basic tablet.

1) GPS would be pretty useless without 3G, you would open Google Maps and the screen would be blank because you couldn't load map data.

The map data would already be on your tablet, which would free you from only having GPS in areas where 3G is present.

 

[kernkraft]

Hey, that thing looks exactly like a giant iPod Touch! Are you sure that it's not a real iPad?