Apple iPad? How about a little German innovation instead
by Markus Goebel
on March 19, 2010

WePadWhile every man and his dog is waiting for their preordered iPad to arrive, some Germans went their own way and yesterday presented a Slate that appears to have, well, better features.

The Neofonie WePad has similar form and function as the wet dreams of our Crunchgear editors, but facts are that the German Android device has a bigger multitouch screen and a faster CPU than the iPad. Also it runs Flash, has USB ports, an inbuilt card reader and expandable memory. Additionally it allows complete multitasking and has a webcam. Beat that baby.

WePad from Berlin
The WePad is set to arrive sooner to German stores than its Apple counterpart and will be significantly cheaper than the iPad, says Neofonie CEO Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen. Preorders and deliveries are planned for next month and that’s no April Fool’s joke, he insisted in a small chat on the WePad’s Facebook site. At first I thought it was a fake, because some specs feel too great and the choice of OS sounds just weird: a Linux derivate with Android on top. That’s Linux with Linux inside, which makes it possible to install apps from the Android Market as well as special Adobe Air software from Neofonie.

  WePad iPad
Display 11.6-inch (1,366 x 768 pixels) 9.7-inch (1,024 x 768 pixels)
Processor 1,66 GHz Intel Atom N450 Pineview-M 1,0 GHz Apple A4
Memory 16 GB NAND Flash (optional 32 GB internal + 32 GB SDcard) 16 / 32 / 64 GB
Webcam 1,3 Megapixel None
Ports 2 USB ports, card reader, audio out, SIM card slot, multi pin connector Apple connector for camera or card reader as peripherals
Flash / Adobe AIR Yes / Yes No / No
App Store WePad AppStore + Google Android Marketplace iTunes App Store
Multitasking Yes Restricted, allowed only for Apple apps
Battery life 6 hours 10 hours
eBook format All open standards Proprietary Apple format from iBooks store
Wireless connect Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi N, 3G optional Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, WiFi N, 3G optional
Body Magnesium-Aluminium Aluminium
Size 288 x 190 x 13 mm 242.8 x 189.7 x 13,4 mm
Weight 800 g (850 g with 3G) 680 g

The company from Berlin, although unknown, is no newcomer. The 12 years old Neofonie GmbH is a software company that also runs a search enginge called WeFind and sells an epublishing platform by the name of WeMagazine. It makes newspapers and magazines readable on computers and smartphones, and that’s also where they see the real business for their WePad tablet PC.

The WePad provides elderly users in the core target group of newspaper and magazine publishing houses, who generally have little to no experience with PCs with intuitive and fast access to the digital world of their children and grandchildren (Internet, e-mail, social media, etc.).

For publishing houses, every reader gained with the WePad represents a direct and long-term customer relationship, the foundation for paid content, extensive customer knowledge and new forms of customer communication. While platforms like Apple iTunes and Amazon Kindle force publishing houses into the role of a simply a content supplier, the WePad allows publishing houses to retain access to and knowledge of their audience.

So the WePad doesn’t want to do away only with Apple’s iPad but also with the Amazon Kindle, reveals the latest factsheet. That’s a tall order. Publishing houses should acquire the device and brand it with their own labels to “move traditional print readers into the digital world in a targeted manner. Print brands can then become online brands, thus minimising the contact with established Internet players like Google Amazon and Apple.”

First commenters do already suspect an alliance between the WePad and Germany’s biggest publisher, Springer, which is also based in Berlin. The many screenshots with Springer’s Hamburger Abendblatt on the WePad would be a hint.

Springer is the strongest proponent of paid content in Europe. Since November, the company blocks users with iPhones and Android devices from reading most of their newspapers’ websites with the phones’ browsers. Instead they shall buy the apps for newspapers like Europe’s biggest daily, BILD, or Springer’s B.Z. Maybe we just saw the birth of a German newspaper tablet. A working prototype was on show at the world’s largest computer expo, CeBIT, two weeks ago.

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  • furi

    Nice try, but no hype? That’s the part where Europe lags behind really.

  • http://baja-bob.com bob

    there tons of new ‘slates’ coming out around the arrival of the iPad. Almost every one has better features than the one Apple will offer.

    Adobe Air? That is really cool. I love tweetdeck.

    I still think I am going to wait for the oversized phone Dell is going to offer, nicknamed the Mini 5. Great specs, amazing screen, and still portable.

  • Chris C

    Are they taking orders? I want one of these! It’s 100 times better than the iPad! and if the OS sucks I guess it will not be a major problem to install Vista on this device =)

  • kartik

    Amazing!!

  • Andy

    I was at the Cebit stand and it did look pretty neat. My first thought was the crunchpad.

  • kartik

    I Wonder where do they intend to manufacture this so as to make it cheaper than the iPad with all this hardware inside.

  • Damon

    Looks great, good specs, but that name, “WePad” is no better than “iPad.” Instead of feminine hygiene products it makes me think it’s for infant or pet potty time.

  • knitz1

    How about WiiPad?

  • SFTitan

    Very nice. When can we get it in the US?

  • http://kryptiva.com Karim Yaghmour

    I actually like the looks of this. It might turn out to be easier to replace my laptop with this than the iPad. Just give me a 100GB HD and I’m all set :)

  • KM

    Sounds Awesome. When can we get it in US and what is the price?

  • http://.... dev

    it will be obviously at low price….but my vote is for ipad only !!!

  • mark

    I’m betting that’s half the battery life, real world.

  • http://www.mockup2psd.com Daniel

    Let the PAD wars begin!!

    Hopefully apple will adopt these cool features (usb port, camera, etc.,) for their next edition of the iPad.

  • http://chromeoslounge.com Chrome OS Lounge

    very nice. add on a few more months of development to it. We’ll see it end of year :(

  • jj

    very nice…. but I already feel sorry for them; they’ll probably get a call from Apple Legal on Monday.

  • http://www.twitter.com/captaink99 suresh Kumar

    since when did the ePub format (used in the iPad) become proprietary?

  • http://overheardinprovidence.com EERac

    It’s kind of telling that the screenshots included in this post basically looks like a jumbled mess. I’m not saying this isn’t a solid product, the UI, hardware and OS may be terrific, but it’s important to appreciate that the iPad’s limitations are a big part of why it will be successful. Like the iPhone it will be reliable and super easy to use, as such many users will purchase iPad apps, and as a result, plenty of great iPad software will get written. At that point, you have a self perpetuating cycle that already started with the iPhone (and arguably the iPod before that)

    Admittedly the iPad’s lack of a webcam is a bummer, and I kind of feel like this is tied to a lack of support for background apps (if you have say, iChat, don’t you want that to be able run in the background). I’m less concerned about the lack of USB, since it seems like there may be accessories for that, plus how often do you really want to connect USB peripherals to your ultra portable tablet. Meanwhile, it seems all but inevitable that Apple will add both a webcam and some level of background app support, at which point ease of use and price become what 90% of consumers care about.

  • http://mashpedia.com Juan Sosa

    Very neat specially for the cards reader! When will it be at Amazon?

  • http://www.computegeeken.blogspot.com madhu

    great competent for iPad

  • Josh

    The specs are great. The interface…not so much. It’s not that I dislike competition, but why doesn’t anyone get it?

    All those widgets!!! Ahhh! Pointless! It’s a cluttered mess and TC is hailing this as fierce competition. Good reporting, bad prognosticating.

    Android maybe more prevalent in the future based on sheer numbers, but it sure isn’t helping Symbian. You have to remember Apple is the Porsche, BMW to Android/Symbian’s Toyota. They sell more units, but that doesn’t mean its better.

  • aynrand

    This is way cool. I use a Flash based productivity app Zahood.com designed for touchscreen devices. I am waiting on HP slate but now I have changed my mind and will get the WePad.

  • mpmchugh

    Your spec about the ebook format for iPad is incorrect. It is not a “Proprietary Apple format from iBooks store.” All books in the iBooks store will be in the open ePub format, though some or all will have Apple’s Fairplay DRM if the publisher chooses. However Apple has said that any open ePub book from other sources can be synced into iBooks via iTunes.

  • monsterofNone

    “Proprietary Apple format from iBooks store”

    yes. ePub is a proprietary Apple format.

    and the only eReader app available is Apple’s.

    please. do some fact checking.

  • Andrew

    If you don’t like widgets… don’t install/use them? It’s better to have the option for people who want them no?

  • Ron

    Pancake day at MySpace today…why didn’t u write about that TechCrunch ????

  • Matt

    I actually like the interface.

  • Southpaw

    Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen? That simply cannot be a real name.

  • jp

    any bookstore with this? weBooks maybe?

  • Pete

    UI looks very very bad

  • Henning

    Looks great from the specs. The UI and available software will make it or break it.

  • John

    I am still looking for Adam which has this amazing 16 hours (With Backlight) to 160 Hours (Backlight off) battery power. With all the required features!
    http://gizmodo.com/5471559/notion-ink-adam-tablet-caught-on-video-specs-finalized

  • beans

    Where exactly did TC hail this as “fierce competition” for the Ipad? To the contrary, while hailing the specs of the WePad, the article suggests that defeating the Ipad and the Kindle would be a tall order for the WePad. Therefore the problem isn’t one of “bad prognosticating” by TC but rather poor reading comprehension by an Apple fanboy.

  • iPad-youPad-wePad

    let’s see now who comes up with youPad or uPad !

  • Dave Hanna

    time for a change- Apple’s iPad is absolutely lame. At least this offers some glimmer of hope of a normal pad

    Apple cannot offer the simplest of things:
    Cannot listen to music while you read a book.

    Yet, there will tons of them sold- stupid

  • Aces

    While the interface does look weird I think youll most likely be able to tweak it the you want it to look. However, the logo (its even bigger on the backside) looks horrible. Being a PC-user with many apple-friends Im sure none of them would even think of buying a device sporting all these funny yellow colored logos on the front and backside. So whatever company will buy and brand this: make it subtle!

  • stevej

    have you ever used an iphone? you can listen to music and do everything on it.

  • Dave H.

    You can read and listen at the same time, do your homework.

  • http://twitter.com/AlexTrup Alex Tryo

    I agree with Josh.

    I own an Android phone. Like this tablet, on paper it sounds better than an iPhone: Physical keyboard, multi-tasking, microSD for expanded storage etc. but it just isn’t as good because of the software it runs.

    Android is definitely getting better all the time, but the things people complain about the iPhone (and probably iPad) are actually it’s strengths. Multi-tasking slows down devices like this a lot and also are a huge drain on battery and make the whole thing more unstable. The closed iTunes Store means that all apps are vetted before they get onto your phone. I’ve had to factory reset my Android phone 3 or 4 times because I’ve downloaded and tried too many unstable apps that have broken some level of my phone’s functionality.

    The WePad on paper already has 4 hours less battery life than an iPad, I’m sure that’s before you have an SD card in, your webcam on, some device plugged into USB and lots of background apps running.

    I’ll still be getting an iPad…

  • AverageCanadian

    See here’s the thing with Android, if you don’t want the widgets you simply just don’t add them. You can have the same boring screen after screen of icons if you really want, but everybody I know with Android has widgets on their main screen because they are useful. It’s nice to have that option. It’s also nice to know this product will allow flash.

  • http://www.theallareequal.com Chris

    This is a worthy alternative to iPad. I hope the Germans release it here soon.

  • agraham999

    Actually you can read a book and listen to music at the same time. Plus…what constitutes a “normal pad” in a yet unproven marketplace? I’m not sure you can state normalcy when this is really a new segment with little traction.

  • gallop

    WePad does not have GPS.
    It is slightly bigger and heavier.
    There will be two marketplace without clear details on what to expect for the WePad bigger screen.
    The company has not made any product for mass markets to assess the quality of this one.
    They have no distribution or maintenance agreement in place.
    It’s not going to compete with the iPad in April 2010.
    I’m pretty sure iPad 2G is already designed waiting the market reception and user’s feedback to get it finalized.

  • http://www.gear.com Brig

    I am so glad it runs Flash and Air. I love my iPod Touch, but it’s so obvious that the reason Apple doesn’t want Flash is that they don’t want developers building free web apps. For any rich internet apps they want to force you to buy the app from their App Store so that Apple can keep 30% of the purchase price. As a result, you’re surfing the web and there are huge holes in web pages. The web on the iPad is not the real web — just the ‘kinda sorta looks like the web’ web.

  • http://www.myerfi.com Nitram

    Woow, I hope this makes it to the market. I like the fact that it is open and has many connection options.

  • Etrigan

    I think a 12 inch screen is the minium required if any tablet is going to be a netbook replacement, so this is good.

    But why doesn;t anybody realise these things need a kick stand so you don’t have to hold them in one hand all the time? And where is the digitizer pen for handwriting and drawing?

    Lastly, sad to say, but if it doesn’t run Windows, this will never catch on with the mass market.

  • tomvons

    An exciting looking device, but one nit pick:

    > The iPad will support the popular ePub format and authors will be able to embed multimedia such as photos, videos, and audio files directly into books.

    - http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/27/apple-announces-e-book-store/

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=516859481 Andrew MacDonald

    That looks like a really stunning device. I would seriously buy that over the iPad if it interacted with iTunes in the same way an iPad would.

    For example, give me the ability to buy movies, tv shows and music. But since it’s not an Apple device, i suppose it won’t be able to do that.

    But i don’t know about these sort’s of tablet devices, so i really wouldn’t know. Can anybody help???

  • tomvons

    > Lastly, sad to say, but if it doesn’t run Windows, this will never catch on with the mass market.

    Why? Lots of popular consumer devices don’t run windows, why would it be a requirement of a tablet/slate/pad thing?

  • Another Voice

    @Etrigan

    “And where is the digitizer pen for handwriting and drawing?”

    I think capacitive touchscreens are capable of handling finger and multi-finger only. (At least at present)

  • joey

    Any word on cost?

  • Ri

    I am sure it will be able to interact with the apple store, just not as closely as the ipad will. Think of a PC, I have itunes in my PC and I can still buy whatever I want from the apple store, except well, apps.

  • scott

    It’s the software and user experience that matters most. Granted, lack of flash is a big minus for the iPad (being unable to browse 90% of the restaurant sites in existence, for example), but the device itself will be a pleasure to use and others will feel a bit clunky (for time time being). Let’s talk about apps (because that is what matters most)… is Electronic Arts developing games specifically for this tablet? Is the Wall Street Journal developing a version of their newspaper specifically for this tablet? In the end it’s sort-of like mobile phones… there are plenty that are more feature laden than the iPhone from a hardware perspective, but that doesn’t matter because the iPhone is more feature-laden from a software perspective.

  • Kopfgeldjaeger

    Kind of OT: Springer is an awful publisher. IMHO most of their newspapers are dull (especially BILD). It’s a really sad story.

  • Dekz

    Uhhhh, of course you can listen to music while you read a book.

  • http://ow.ly/1nguZ OLPC design

    the WePad is BETTER than iPad since 90% of the iPad/TabletPC users want a MULTITASKING OS as shown in this international POLL: http://alt-pad.blogspot.com/

  • tomvons

    Maybe Amazon can convince the studios/networks to provide content the same way they were able to convince them to provide DRM-free MP3s…

    Graned, you would have Hulu and Netflix, not sure how well they would work on such a device though.

  • http://overheardinprovidence.com EERac

    I think it’s pretty much a given that iTunes (like on an iPhone) will be able to play music in the background while you’re using other apps.

  • tomvons

    Curious, did you get your hands on a physical device?

  • markus

    Don’t make the naive mistake of thinking that clock speed is everything that matters for a processor’s performance. Today’s ARM cores can at half the clock speed outperform the Atom cores.

  • http://overheardinprovidence.com EERac

    People, including apple, have already announced stands for the iPad. I’m sure someone will happy to sell you a case with a kickstand. Also I think any stylus with an appropriate tip would work (i.e. google “iphone stylus”)

  • Adam I.

    THIS.

    Exterminate features!

  • http://teleread.org Chris Meadows

    Sorry, since nobody else has yet I just can’t resist.

    “Yo dawg, we know you like Linux. So we put Linux in your Linux so you can compute while you compute.”

  • http://blueringmobile.com Matthew Chiu

    Any word on the price? Isn’t that the key stat missing from the iPad comparison. Apple could have done a high-end iPad that costs the same as a Macbook, but it wouldn’t have sold.

  • Vern

    Actually, you can listen to music while reading a book on the iPad. The music app can run simultaneously to other apps, just like on the iPhone or iPod touch.

  • Dashiell Menard

    This is apple, you know… They aren’t exactly cool with other people’s hardware interacting with their software — see the Palm Pre.

  • Eyal Nevo

    Where did you see that you can’t listen to music while reading a book? I do it on my iPhone every day.

  • JN

    It looks as a rip off. Come on, there are no more industrial designers other than Apple´s ? Even not enough imagination for an original name (wePad)

    You have to consider the whole echosystem and not just the hardware. The complete (dummy) user experience. There is where Apple products shine.

  • steveH

    “Apple cannot offer the simplest of things:
    Cannot listen to music while you read a book.”

    Odd, I’ve been able to do exactly that for as long as I’ve had a first-generation iPod touch.

    Out of the box, never jail-broken.

  • steveH

    “For example, give me the ability to buy movies, tv shows and music. But since it’s not an Apple device, i suppose it won’t be able to do that.”

    Ask Blackberry how they manage to sync music from iTunes to their own devices. Adhering to the published guidelines for doing exactly that.

    Don’t bother asking Palm, however, how not to do it.

  • Mike

    I don’t know, Dave, but I listen to music while surfing the web or using using my other iPhone /iPod Touch apps on my iPod Touch all the time.

    Stating that the iPad won’t play music while reading an ebook is just a wrong statement. (Since the iPad runs a modified version of the iPhone OS)

    BTW .. I have my iPad pre-ordered but the WePad seems to be a good concept. Hope you enjoy the product.

  • JKS

    EPUB is a “Proprietary Apple format”? what? I mean I know books you BUY from apple will be EPUBs with FairPlay wrappers — but they explicitly say you can download any old EPUB and sync it through iTunes.

  • http://www.chicfloral.com brandon

    “While every man and his dog is waiting for their preordered iPad to arrive”

    Thanks for the laugh. :)

  • Dave Hanna

    Michael- how about partnering up with these guys for the new crunchpad? Be the crunchpad app store to run all the products your team writes about

    You know you want to:)

  • zrgiu

    i’d buy that

  • Ciaran

    I’m still not sure this is an elaborate hoax. But if it isn’t, I say kudos to the German company. Good to see a company not rolling over and having its tummy rubbed by its Apple overlord. Love to see this piece of tech in action. Totally agree that they should team up with publishers.

  • http://frankschmitt.org/ Frank Schmitt

    It’s nice to see that Apple getting some credible competition in this space, as it’s probably the only thing that might snap them out of control freak mode.

    That said, the iPad does support any book in the ePub standard (free and open):

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100312/bs_nf/72165

    as well as any others that indie app developers decide to support.

    Also keep in mind that competitors with products that win in a bullet-point fight against Apple products don’t always win in the marketplace (cf. “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.”)

  • http://www.greenstreet.net PaulH

    “Cannot listen to music while you read a book.” – I thought you would be able to do that, as you would be able to multitask selected Apple apps at once?

  • CB

    It’s bigger but they couldn’t manage to leverage that extra space to build a longer-lasting battery? Considering that most companies usually overestimate their battery-life and Apple usually underestimates their battery-life, it’s almost half the battery life of the iPad.

  • Fred

    People just don’t get it… everyone wants Apple to release a keyboardless notebook… this is NOT A NOTEBOOK, NOR IS IT A NETBOOK! It is a complete paradigm shift… for those that say it is closer to a large iPod touch they are more accurate. This is not supposed to be a replacement for a laptop so stop comparing it to one…

  • Ericson

    I’m glad it exists. When they do it in China it’s called ripping off. When they do it in Germany it’s called “German Innovation” ha ha :)

  • http://ericbetts.org Eric Betts

    I love the point by point comparison, but I believe the row about eBooks to be incorrect. According to Apple’s website, the iPad will support ePub format eBooks, which is an open standard. I haven’t seen any mention of PDF, DOC, MOBI, etc format support though, so the WePad is still a willing in format choice.

  • Chozen

    That analogy isn’t working, Toyota owns the market….

    The simple fact that it supports Flash makes it that much better, no need to go through all the other specs.

  • CalmQuiet

    The company is *that* innovative and yet hasn’t figured out how to get inself in Crunchbase?
    Or could you just not be bothered?

  • Lucas Brasil

    How much will it cost???

  • vitriolix

    Try doing that with Pandora or Last.fm. I do this all the time on my Nexus One and it is really great.

  • Gaurang Khetan

    I believe two entries in the iPad column in the chart are wrong:

    It says: “Proprietary Apple format from iBooks store” — no they are using ePub standard, which is an open standard, and the most popular format. You could even sync ePub books bought from other stores like Amazon to the iPad, and read it in iBooks.

    in the ports section, the WePad mentions audio out, sim card slot, multi-pin connector — these 3 should also be in the iPad column.

  • foodie

    hmmm

    Will the Ipad be able to run a blueray and output to a tv? I don’t think so. But maybe apple will sell you another $100 dongle that will let you…

    Go the linux tablet. Run osx on it if you want :P ~ still get more features and capability than the ipad.

  • Brad

    there is another Alternative in Germany: IntelliBook.com

  • http://www.ttag.me Jeff

    Excuse me?! “Beat that baby”? I hope you meant “Beat that, baby.”

  • Dru Richman

    Re: eBook format

    From Apple’s specs on the iPad—
    The iBooks app uses the ePub format — the most popular open book format in the world.

  • bill

    more like

    ipad=lexus
    android=bmw
    windows mobile=hyundai
    symbian=mercedes

    no porche or bentley, sorry.

  • tomvons

    You can listen to music and read a book if the music is from iTunes. I assume parent is talking about apps like Pandora which (currently) cannot run in the background along with other apps.

    The iPhone has plenty of multitasking, when it comes to the bundled apps, the problem is with 3rd party apps.

  • Chris

    Does anybody want to bet that the Apple iPad actually has like 4-5 hours and not 10 hours of battery life?

    Apple is not the best product, just the best marketed and hyped one.

  • Michael

    Ooo, Linux with Linux inside!

  • cak

    you can tell when someone has to lie, that they don’t have a point.

    you can listen to music no matter what you do, on the ipad, just as you can on the iphone and touch.

  • http://www.neofonie.de Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen

    Dear Techchrunch,

    congratulations for the research.

    There will be a Tech+Media Alliance to be announced soon.

    We will keep you posted on our Facebook Fanpage (http://www.facebook.com/WePad).

    I ADORE Steve Jobs, but sorry, we are the tech and we are strategy, there will be a way out ;-)

    Best Regards

    Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen (CEO neofonie, WeFind, WePad and such ;-)

  • http://trnunes.com T.R. Nunes

    Impressive device! It does weigh more than the iPad, though (and the iPad’s lesser weight has already been criticized by current eReader users). Also, the comparison wasn’t entirely accurate, as the comment “Proprietary Apple format from iBooks store” shows (Apple having announced support for the ePub standard as well).

  • Michael Roberts

    I am by no means an early adopter (I did grudgingly get a cell phone a couple years ago) but I would seriously buy this in a heartbeat if it were marketed in the States, and will probably buy one in Europe this summer.

    Apple pulled this “we own you” crap in the 80′s and languished for a couple of decades, and now the iPhone has gone to their heads. They’ll lose again if they don’t start supporting the market.

  • http://www.neofonie.de Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen

    … regarding chrunchpad: just call, resp. email to hhhva-assistenz-l@neofonie.de

    We would love to provide you WePad powered by Crunchpad including all the tech we have over here ;-)

    Regards, Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen (CEO)

  • http://www.neofonie.de Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen

    Correction: hhva-assistenz-l@neofonie.de

    // sorry for the spam …

  • Wally

    The six hour battery life? Mama, I’m hungry.

    Odd that there’s no video of this marvel in action.

    No price announced, only that it will be “significantly cheaper.” Right.

  • morgen

    Is it a surprise that Herr Goeb(b)el(s) finds a German product better than everything else?

  • BonVoyage

    Great specs! The 16:9 screen, usb-ports, multitasking and flash (yes without flash Web is still lame) makes me happy. I hope it is reliable an easy in handling and than there is no reasonable way for me to not buy anyone.

  • http://www.thepadrino.com The Padrino

    It does seems better then the Ipad if the price is cheaper definally.

  • Mike

    On the iPod Touch, I have been able to listen to music while reading Shakespeare in an ebook format (Just as a test, mind you) and have verified that this is possible.

    Select Apple apps using the iPhone OS (which the iPad uses) can “multitask”. For example, the mail, music, web browser, iCal and Address book apps, to name a few, can perform their functions in the background while the user uses a different application in the forground. (Note: The iPhone OS doesn’t use a “desktop with windows” metaphor for multitasking. In other words, you don’t have a separate “music program” window open on the screen at the same time with other app windows. (There are no windows … only one app is displayed at a time.) That doesn’t mean that other processes in “the background” are inactive.

    Switching between the apps is not done by a “mouse click” between windows .. there is no mouse .. but rather by using a finger touch on another app icon.

    Really .. just play with an iPod Touch for a few minutes and you will know how the iPad will work.

  • http://rockiger.com Marco

    Interesting that a product from old Germany is competing with the iPad on TC. When was the last time a company from Europe could compete with a product from the Bay Area?

  • Mike

    Hello Etrigan. Remember that the content for tablets are mostly “Windows agnostic”. One doesn’t require Windows for viewing the internet, reading ebooks or magazines, viewing mail or calendar appointments, listening to music or watching a movie or performing specialized apps. Whether its the WePad, iPad, HP Slate or any other tablet device, persons wishing to perform these functions can do so without using Windows as an OS backbone. Remember that the iPod doesn’t use Windows and it caught on with the mass market population.

    As for a “built in kickstand” (which would be nice), the iPad, as an example, has an optional protective cover that functions a kickstand. I suspect the WePad could have a similar option for it when it launches.

    Adding an optional inexpensive pen digitizer should not be a problem for the WePad since both the iPad (and iPod Touch) have the ability to utilize an optional digitizer pen for apps that require that type of input.

  • DavidK

    “multitask selected Apple apps at once?”

    That is correct. Certain Apple apps can run in the background, so you can use iTunes for any music listening.

    The other side of the coin is that you HAVE to use iTunes, and not any other program. It’d be nice to be able to pick another player, especially since I don’t think iTunes mobile supports web radio…

  • kyle

    “But why doesn;t anybody realise these things need a kick stand so you don’t have to hold them in one hand all the time?”

    AMEN!

    On top of that… How much fun will be to watch a video with the thing sitting on your lap and it’s laying 90 degrees off the correct viewing angle (at least if you recline like I do) Or how will you reply to messages effectively when most of the screen is taken up by the keyboard.

    I’m weird I guess, I love my netbook (U100 w/ Ubuntu and Windows XP). Tablets seem like ‘cool’ content consumption devices, but not really productivity tools.

  • Steppenwolf

    What a stupid, insulting thing to say. How long did it take you to think that up?

  • retlaw7

    Um, yes you will. I bet you $1000

  • Jim Hawkins

    iPhone doesn’t run Windows and seems to be doing ok in the mass market. People don’t give a flying f what OS is running on the device – they just want it to do what they want.

  • Jim Hawkins

    “Time for a change”? What the hell are you talking about? The iPad isn’t even out!

  • Jim Hawkins

    Correction to the table is needed. According to Apple’s website the iPad iBooks app will display epub format books; and you can use iTunes to manage your existing epub books. You do not have to buy your books through Apple.

  • JM

    Is it any surprise that someone named “morgen” would misread the writers article? I don’t recall the writer stating anywhere that this product was better or worse than anything else, but quotes what Neofonie GmbH has stated. You comment just wreaks of racial bias. Take it to one of the hate sites out there, it doesn’t belong here.

  • http://www.modernimagestudios.com Wes Craft

    I can listen to music on my iphone while using apps, I don’t know why the ipad would be any different. When an app opens immediately and runs flawlessly why do you need 12 apps open on one small screen?

  • Tom B

    I’ll give them a few points for effort, but this ain’t a winner. Key disadvantages:
    1) cheezy OS
    2) short battery life
    3) no iTunes– could seriously limit content
    4) Runs flash.

  • rand

    Actually about the ebook format, apple has stated that it’s epub and that you can sync epub books from other sources onto your iPad.

    Sources :

    http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/ibooks.html

    http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/ipad-ebook-features/

    Few seconds of searching.

  • Steven McCormick

    Correct, music can play the entire time other apps are running.

  • dedos

    ??? Runs Flash???? with the amount of sites that use flash you need it…… maybe not in two years but today or next month is a must have….. btw you can always block flash or uninstall……….

  • Eldon Hoke

    Sweet, a useful tablet that I could run FreeBSD on instead of some crappy bugged-by-china linux!

  • OliY

    “Proprietary Apple format from iBooks store” – you didn’t even bother fact checking do you? Because it’s so ridiculously hard to go to http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/ibooks.html

    “The iBooks app uses the ePub format — the most popular open book format in the world. That makes it easy for publishers to create iBooks versions of your favorite reads. And you can add free ePub titles to iTunes and sync them to the iBooks app on your iPad.”

  • Floffe

    Say what you will about the iPad, but it does use an open ebook format (e-pub) unlike your table of specs say.

  • http://www.rimron.co.uk/ D. Rimron

    eeeer, the iPad supports ePub formats for digital books, both with and without DRM….

    And “Android Marketplace”, will this be the phone market place, or a special “non-phone” one, since Android Marketplace apps are designed for phones, and make expectations for things like microphones, etc. Will be interested to see how a small formfactor app scales to 11″, or if google even lets them on the “Their Marketplace” in the first instance….

  • human

    @morgen: What’s wrong with you? Is the nazi comparison part of of a serious discussion? Since I’ve been a punkrocker twenty five years ago I fought for respect, tolerance and acceptance. Since ca. ten years I’m working and travelling through Europe and I can calim compared to the German democracy there’s nothing comparable in any other country regarding to stability tolerance etc.! Yes the second world war and the nazi time is and was the most tremendous crime humans ever did on earth. We never should forget to avoid any retry. But if I watch my doughters growing up, having a respectfull relation with any kind of religion or skin colours we can do better! Just visit Europe and Germany and you’ll see and learn…..

  • seh

    uh-oh not appearing

  • Simon

    Name them. YouTube? HTML5 tag supported and there’s and app. Vimeo? HTML5 tag supported. Google Finance? Fair point, but there are extremely good native apps. Ah, you must be referring to games. Meh. Native is better.

  • Wende

    @ morgen

    “Is it a surprise that Herr Goeb(b)el(s) finds a German product better than everything else?”

    wtf? u cant get more impudent! absolutely. refer to goebbels on nazi websites, but not here. typical mossback, not a spark of decency…

    this device kicks ass! at least apples ass :P they limit everything, for instance flash (flash = kinda backdoor to appstore for free) and even USB oO
    neofonie doesnt and thats awesome.

    (i hope my sense of grammar fits your demands :P dont know if everything is right…)

  • http://www.jbmetrics.com James Wallis Martin

    @Tom B
    1) cheezy OS, what is cheezy about Android, that it does true multi-tasking, that it is open-source, that is isn’t a half castrated version of OSX? Enlighten us!
    2) if you need all 10 hours of battery life in one go, you might want to consider getting a life and interacting with real people
    3) no iTunes? Melodeo runs your iTunes library with no problem, so what is the big deal?
    4) Runs flash. Well there is a great thing about flash, you don’t like it, use a blocker (there are plenty around), but to block it not for technical reasons, but rather for financial and monopolistic reasons (not wanting to open the development of Flash or Silverlight for iPhones or iPad) Now that is a bit to fascist for my liking. So a hardware company can tell me what I can and cannot run on it? I don’t think so, sorry Apple.

    WePad, you can have my business…

  • http://cimota.com/blog mj

    Flash isn’t going to be the be-all and end-all. You have to remember that 95% of Flash out there is not optimised for a ‘touch’ interface with a most of them relying on hover and mouseOver events. You can’t do that with a finger that isn’t touching the screen.

    Running Flash will help. I am having trouble believing this will actually come to market however at any price deemed reasonable.

    And ‘coming to stores before the iPad? Sure about that?

  • Scott

    Are you sure about access to the Android Market? So far as I know, Google has not allowed *any* non-smartphone devices to use the Market app. (The Dell Streak has telephony built-in, which seems a bit awkward for a 5″ device, but that’s apparently how they got Google’s blessing.)

  • sehn

    uh-oh!

  • sehn

    Perhaps, there’s some truth to this ‘wepad’ but me? I prefer something that’s for real. I’m talking about the notion ink adam.

  • http://www.muchosmedia.com Stefan Richter

    “95% of Flash out there is not optimised for a ‘touch’ interface”

    Umm no. And you are saying that HTML based sites are? Ever used an AJAX interface before? Jeez…

    As far as the device itself goes, I think it’s great to see some competition and I can see myself buying one of these babies, or an HP slate for that matter.
    iPad? Thanks uncle Steve, but the only thing that sounds magic about this device is that it’s magically crippled in features.

  • Tom B

    Engineering is about trade-offs. Flash is going away in the long term. I’m willing to sacrifice it now to avoid the slow-downs and power usage.

    I like Farmville as much as the next man, on a home computer running off my wall outlets. But, on a fast computer switching from one “neighbor’s” farm to another can take 30-120 seconds on a fast computer, with much fan noise and power use. This is ludicrously bad. Maybe Zynga needs more servers; maybe it’s the Flash. I can’t say for sure, but given that Flash OFTEN gets seriously bogged down on desktop computers, Windows and Mac, leads me to believe it’s the Flash.

    If you want a portable that does “everything” you might be better served with a full-speed laptop that can better cope with these demands than an iPad.

  • Wayne B

    I think you meant “No, iTunes could seriously limit content.” which would be a Pro not a Con.

    The iPhone OS is a gimmick compared to Linux/Android.

  • http://www.neofonie.de Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen

    We will announce what WeOS can do and it will be astounding … It was a 3 Years Development, and Germans can do Tech ;-)

    … 6 Hours is enough. iPad can’t have 10 hours depending on use …

    There will be Music ;-)

    I love Flash, Media loves Flash too

  • http://www.neofonie.de Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen

    WePad powered by Techchrunch. We love the idea … You will get an official response soon!

  • http://www.alphapicture.com Gerhard Maertterer

    Whow! I am brooding, whether we’ll stop developping our new iPad Apps for personalized videos and then focus on Android …
    Hope, we’ll soon get a WePad to check usability.
    http://www.youtube.com/user/AlphaPictureTV

  • http://www.neofonie.de Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen

    Is it a surprise that US loves the iPad ;-)

  • http://www.neofonie.de Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen

    … and btw:

    We run Flash in our Webkit based browser.

    And we run Adobe AIR including touch ;-)

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  • Tom B

    ” if you need all 10 hours of battery life in one go, you might want to consider getting a life ”

    Travelers. International business flights. I bet the iPad will be GREAT for Keynote.

  • http://www.neofonie.de Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen

    There is a kick stand of course…

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  • http://brazilbrat.blogspot.com/ James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil

    Well, there’s not much innovation in the name, but it does have all the features Apple should have put on there. Apple will probably upgrade the iPad very quickly or lose out to these better-featured competitors.

    If I were to choose right now, the iPad wouldn’t even be on the list of possibilities. Any notebook or tablet, even one several years old, beats the iPad.

    This one, I like. I’d be very interested in seeing how well the OS actually works, though. For that matter, how long will it be before someone hacks one to run OSX? Then, that would be a big winner.

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  • vv

    6 hours of what? watching video? browsing flash sites?
    Usual netbook with atom cpu lives 2-3 hours on average load, this tablet obviously has a worse battery

  • sehn

    Yes nice try, but like most of the people here, they want something more than a hype… IMO, I’m going for the Microsoft’s Courier Tablet

  • Constable Odo

    You’ll jump to whatever tablet has the best specs at the moment which means you may not get one at all. You may not even want to pay what this company’s asking price is which is hard to say since they’re not telling you it’s price. While the geeks change their loyalty from device to device based on the number of features, the iPad will be selling in the millions of units and low-tech consumers will be more than satisfied.

    Unfinished products don’t make money no matter how many features they’ll have. The Nexus One out-hardwares the iPhone, but Google can hardly give them away. It’s a known fact that geeks do not drive product sales. They’re in a little world of their own and they don’t represent the vast majority of users.

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  • youngluck

    The Courier will never ship. Here’s why: Microsoft will never go head on with Apple in the Consumer tablet market with a product that doesn’t play movies. It’s viewable size is split in half by “the pocket”… It won’t ship in it’s current form. I still want one, cause I’m a creative, but I represent a very small slice of the whole pie.

  • youngluck

    delayed. Real deal FAIL.

  • Elliot

    different business model. perhaps they can afford to subsidize this more. plus apple over-charges to begin with.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1061022770 Elliot

    As windows has demonstrated over the years, a jumbled mess is the best way to build and to maintain market share, because it forces the development of a supply chain of endless layers of tech support. The average person is more comfortable buying a broken product than a functioning product, when you consider that the former is supported by an industry of umpteen hand-holding paradigms, each one customized to the particular needs of this or that average person, (and business) whereas the latter doesn’t come with as many flavors of hand-holding… A product that works is great, but you still need half a brain to get much use out of a product that works… And that’s asking too much of 95% of the population. A product that works simply won’t push hard enough for the development of an entire industry of hand-holders.

    Apple made the GUI popular, but it took Microsoft’s incompetence to make any money off of it. Why should the smart phone or the pad be any different? As much money as Apple is making now off of these new paradigms, you can rest assured that it’s a small fraction of the money that people will throw at these devices once the appropriately jumbled-mess versions hit the shelves and build up their sales and support eco-systems.

    Microsoft may not even be a contender in these new paradigms either… with this many years of experience hacking away at Windows, Microsoft may now be saddled with the burden of having become half-ways competent at GUI and OS design and implementation. Genius like the long line of optimally jumbled mess of Windows operating systems doesn’t happen on purpose, sometimes it takes just plain dumb luck. Bill Gates / Steve Ballmer = Forrest Gump.

  • http://www.binfire.com david Robins

    I guess the only thing that this device does not have is real applications!!!!

  • Jarvis

    ePub, the international E-book standard, is HTML (XHTML 1.1 with minor exclusions).

    http://www.openebook.org/specs.htm

    You need to do some fact checking.

  • Stranger527

    Just a note about tweetdeck… There is an iPhone app for that. It supports multiple columns and syncs with the tweetdeck service. I imagine that the iPad version of tweetdeck will allow multiple columns displayed on screen.

    Development platforms like Air necessary when you have a strong SDK platform. Even WIRED is developing their e-mag in Air and converting to iPhone OS app so that they can develop for multiple platforms.

  • Tony

    This is just history and Darwinism repeating itself for the third time. In the late 90′s, there were so many different portable music players, but it took Apple and its iPod with its dead simple interface in 2001 to really popularize portable music patterns (and eliminate most of the competition). In the early to mid part of this decade, there were several different smart phones with different interfaces made by several companies, but it took the iPhone and its simpler interface to wipe most of them out. Similarly, tablet PCs have been out for almost a decade with their Windows XP interfaces, but very few people paid attention and purchased them until Apple announced its iPad, and now they are rushing to put out tablets with GUIs that superficially mimic the iPad. Sure, some people will buy them, but eventually Apple’s iPad and its simpler, uncluttered GUI will again wipe them out. Part of the reason why Apple has been successful is because of its ability to tie all three products to the iTunes Music Store, something that other competitors have yet failed to duplicate.

  • Matt

    Intellibook = VW

  • Matthew Frederick

    Exactly. “Proprietary Apple format from iBooks store” is completely inaccurate.

  • Matthew Frederick

    He was, um, being sarcastic.

  • Hamranhansenhansen

    > want something more than a hype… IMO,
    > I’m going for the Microsoft’s Courier Tablet

    Courier is 100% hype. If that’s what you want, you already have it. It’s concept videos. Steve Ballmer himself said so. These are a form of internal Microsoft cheerleading and a externally it is FUD to keep you from buying an existing product.

  • Hamranhansenhansen

    The book format line in the table is wrong. Apple’s iBookStore uses ePub, not a proprietary format. And iBooks is just one of many readers in App Store. You can use Stanza, Eucalyptus, Classics, Kobo, many others. iBooks does not even ship on the device.

    The line should read: open formats, plus Kindle and Audible.

    To a gadget hound, this spec sheet seems to favor the WePad, but not to most consumers. They will choose App Store over Air, iTunes Store over DIY, iTunes admin (auto backup, easy restore) over DIY, Apple Store support over who knows, 10 hours over 6 hours, tons of accessories over none, shipping over vapor, the biggest computer hardware company in the world over one they haven’t heard of, the incredibly responsive and fast Apple UI over another clunky misfiring touch UI, and years of product maturity (leveraging iPhone, iPod, OS X) over just getting started. These are the key data points for consumers whose eyes literally glaze over at the sight of this spec table.

    Probably the 3 most important details for consumers are: price, availability, and 3G data plan price, bandwidth, and contract terms. iPad is reasonably priced, available now, and offers truly unlimited 3G bandwidth (not a 5GB cap) for a dollar a day. If the WePad ships in 2011 with these specs it is not as impressive. If it costs $2 per day for 5GB/month cap it is not as impressive. And there are no hit Android devices with the possible exception of Verizon Droid, where there is no competition on the proprietary Verizon network from open phones.

    Where are the real photos of it (these are mock-ups)? Basically there is nothing on this page that separates WePad from a hoax. Even the name is derivative. So it’s a pretty poor comparison at this point. If this ships in 6 months it will enter a world with 10 million iPads, all running iPhone OS 4.0 or 4.1. Mobile moves quicky so talking about a product with no ship date and price is really speculative.

  • stevej

    is that a joke? if the OS sucks you’ll install VIsta? which what? doesn’t suck?

  • Hamranhansenhansen

    > I am so glad it runs Flash and Air

    On paper you are, but in real life they will eat up the battery. The Nexus One can play 7 hours of video without Flash. With Flash, it plays 3. iPad and iPhone can play 10. Basically, playing 1 movie in Flash wipes out half your battery, of you start with a full charge. You have to plug into AC to use Flash in any practical way.

  • stevej

    did you read your comment before posting?

    apple doesnt want flash because it doesnt want free apps???

    MOST APPS IN THE APP STORE ARE FREEE!!!!!!!

    flash wont make it to the ipad OR ANY OTHER touch device properly for one reason.

    NO MOUSEOVER!!!

    this means most flash apps will be somewhat busted.

  • stevej

    flash wont make it to the ipad OR ANY OTHER touch device properly for one reason.

    NO MOUSEOVER!!!

    this means most flash apps will be somewhat busted.

  • Snitzelglobin in liederhozen

    The ipad doesn’t need to support flash, flash just needs to fuck off and die.

  • Hamranhansenhansen

    > I think a 12 inch screen is the minium

    The difference between 10 and 12 is negligible, especially if your OS can zoom and scale arbitrarily like OS X and its browser core.

    > But why doesn’t anybody realise these things
    > need a kick stand

    Apple’s iPhone case has a kickstand. The iPhone and iPad are essentially naked, you customize them with one of thousands of cases and stands as appropriate.

    > where is the digitizer pen for handwriting and
    > drawing?

    There are accessory pens for $10 that conduct electricity from you hand to the screen. At Apple Stores, you are offered one to sign your name on an iPod touch if you use a credit card. However, they are not strictly necessary on Apple devices. The touchscreen is so accurate you can draw 1 pixel lines with a finger. Try a drawing app like Brushes or Sketches for iPhone and see for yourself.

    > Lastly, sad to say, but if it doesn’t run Windows,
    > this will never catch on with the mass market.

    In mobiles, iPhone OS has the leadership position that Windows has in portables and desktops. 70% of the I-T departments in Fortune 500 deploy iPhone OS. It’s the US Military’s favorite OS for soldiers. So the WePad will suffer because it doesn’t run iPhone OS, or something else that is just as good. Android is built more like Windows (complexity, malware, no hardware integration) so it is a long way off. Mobiles is very different from portables and desktops. That was proven by iPhone.

  • Hamranhansenhansen

    > This is apple, you know… They aren’t
    > exactly cool with other people’s hardware
    > interacting with their software — see the
    > Palm Pre.

    You’re 100% wrong, just like Palm.

    iTunes stores its library as XML, a vendor neutral format specifically designed for applications to share data. Blackberry syncs with an iTunes library, Nokia syncs, there are even shareware apps that sync with iTunes libraries. iTunes stores its media in ISO standard format which is why any device can play it, the exception being video bought from iTunes which has DRM at the demand of movie publishers. But your own homemade video or indie video from iTunes can sync with your Blackberry.

    What Palm did was spoof Apple’s vendor ID to pretend to be an iPod. Very different, and nobody in their right mind blames anyone but Palm for that.

    Apple doesn’t need crutches like vendor lock-in. They make the most desirable devices. People choose them willingly, and they provide the best software and support so customers literally get spoiled for other vendors. No lock-in necessary. Even though their native iPhone apps are insanely popular, iPhone OS also has the best HTML5 Web app platform. They don’t sabotage the Web like Microsoft in order to make their native apps more desirable, they already are desirable based on features that the Web doesn’t have yet.

  • Hamranhansenhansen

    > 90% of iPad … users want multitasking

    This is a great case of statistics lying. Yes, every iPhone OS user has been occasionally inconvenienced by the way only one 3rd party app can run at a time. But if you follow up your question with the consequences, like so:

    - how much battery life are you willing to lose?
    - how much responsiveness are you willing to lose?
    - are you willing to manually manage processes?
    - are you willing to put up with the device stalling because it’s busy with background tasks?

    Then iPhone OS users say no, no, no, no, no.

    A key feature of iPhone is that all of the apps appear to be running at all times, and you just switch between them. You can literally run 50 apps in an hour and never have to quit one. That’s why users buy and use so many apps. There’s no real penalty to installing more apps except a cluttered home screen and a little more storage lost.

    On this WePad, many iPhone OS workflows will not work. You won’t be able to run enough apps at once. That is the irony of iPhone multitasking. Booting 3rd party apps out of resources aggressively enables the user to run more apps, not less. The user multitasks more with an iPhone than other systems. This suits mobile use, where no matter what you’re doing, you may have to make a call NOW. You may need to look up a map NOW. You may be interrupted by any number of things. The device had to stay responsive.

  • Hamranhansenhansen

    > Don’t make the naive mistake of thinking
    > that clock speed is everything

    Also, iPhone OS software is heavily optimized. An iPhone 3GS with 600MHz processor outperforms Nexus One with 1000MHz processor. Bulking up on a big CPU and slow software just drains battery and makes the device cost more. And OS X uses the GPU well, also.

    Everyone who has used an iPad — without exception — has described it as surprisingly fast. Every Atom device is described as slow.

  • Hamranhansenhansen

    > Come on, there are no more industrial designers
    > other than Apple´s?

    Unfortunately, no. Where Apple has product designers (creative people) and engineers, others have product managers (business people) and engineers. If they have designers at all, they’re just visual designers, who do colors and shapes.

    Design is really looked down upon in tech. That is why it’s considered to be OK in so many circles to rip off Apple. Business people tell engineers to make a tablet and the engineers have no design to use but Apple’s.

    It even used to be considered to be true that there was no other GUI apart from mouse and windows, until iPhone. Microsoft did 10 years of tablets without ever discovering this because they have no designers.

  • RJ7855

    I´m not planning on buying a tablet but if I have to choose from these two I will take the wePad just in order for NOT having iTunes. That damn program already made me sell my iPhone and as long as iTunes is mandatory (and as bad as it currently is) I will not buying any Apple anymore.

  • RJ7855

    Neither there is any hype for the iPad in Europe.

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  • RJ7855

    “choice of OS sounds just weird: a Linux derivate with Android on top. That’s Linux with Linux inside”

    The only thing weird about this statement is the statement itself. Android is not linux, all android devices run a version of linux with the Andoid framework on top (which is java based). So the wePad uses exactly the same system as for example the Droid or the Nexus One.

  • RJ7855

    I would describe the difference between Apple and windows more like a nice model car (Apple) and a model car made from (Technic) Lego (Windows). While out of the box the Apple may look beter, it may function better as toy car… but when you get bored of playing with the car you can’t change it in something new like with lego, if it breaks you will have to go to the manufacturer to get it fixed (instead of using just another of the shelf lego brick)
    I can understand that there are people perfectly happy with the model car but I´m personally more of a lego girl, building/modifying it is half the fun already and if you spend just a bit of time you can create things never possible with the prebuild model car.

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    I bought a PMG Quadpad (800×600 TFT touch screen, Windows XP) back in 2005. Clunky device, stylus driven, must weigh more than 1kg at least, and runs Windows – not surprising it didn’t take off.

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  • Evan

    First of all, as Hamranhansenhansen said, there is no such thing as a proprietary Apple ebook format, it uses the exact same open ePub format that is supported by the Sony and Bookeen ebook readers as well as Adobe Digital Editions and Calibre.

    I have concerns about the WePad’s ability to run all (or even most of) the software in the Android Market, because most Android devices (ie, phones) use ARM-design CPUs while the WePad uses an Intel Atom. Indeed, the WePad resembles a keyboard-less netbook more than a conventional android device.

    I wonder how the WePad stacks up against a more-similar device, the Dell Mini 5 (aka Streak).

  • Sam

    I really like the design for this product, but I’m still waiting for the Courier to make a decision. It definitely is way better than the iPad and I think it’s a worthy adversary. It definitely gives much more options to the interface, which is great and I love the option for widgets, it’s got Flash and Air which is a definite bonus and so much more. But at the same time, Apple’s proved that simplicity goes a long way, and it still has a lot backing it up with the app store and iTunes. I hope the WePad just not too pricey and it makes it’s way up here to Canada.

  • http://phandroid.com/2010/03/22/wepad-android-tablet-crushes-ipad-in-spec-battle/ WePad Android Tablet Crushes iPad In Spec Battle | Android Phone Fans

    [...] With an 11.6-inch screen, 1.66GHz processor, front-facing camera, 2 USB ports, SIM slot, MicroSD slot, Flash, Adobe AIR, and ability to use all open eBook standards, the WePad bests the iPad in all of those categories. You can see the full comparison at TechCrunch.com. [...]

  • Dave

    Call me crazy, but what I really want is for it to slide into a keyboard dock that makes it function as a laptop. Then you can choose how to use it for the best of both worlds.

  • http://planetandroid.vitaeblog.com/?p=8586 Planet Android » Blog Archive » WePad Android Tablet Crushes iPad In Spec Battle

    [...] With an 11.6-inch screen, 1.66GHz processor, front-facing camera, 2 USB ports, SIM slot, MicroSD slot, Flash, Adobe AIR, and ability to use all open eBook standards, the WePad bests the iPad in all of those categories. You can see the full comparison at TechCrunch.com. [...]

  • MyAbusa

    Yay… I’m not a sheep or lemming or whatever the “majority” is I think for myself & make my own decisions!! Anyone here ride motorcycles? If so, do Apple fanboys remind you of Hardly Davidson riders? Fashion of function?

  • http://www.droidsol.com/?p=1128 Android Solutions » Blog Archive » WePad Android Tablet Crushes iPad In Spec Battle

    [...] With an 11.6-inch screen, 1.66GHz processor, front-facing camera, 2 USB ports, SIM slot, MicroSD slot, Flash, Adobe AIR, and ability to use all open eBook standards, the WePad bests the iPad in all of those categories. You can see the full comparison at TechCrunch.com. [...]

  • http://www.androidjunkies.com/index.php/2010/03/22/wepad-android-tablet-crushes-ipad-in-spec-battle/ WePad Android Tablet Crushes iPad In Spec Battle « Android Junkies

    [...] With an 11.6-inch screen, 1.66GHz processor, front-facing camera, 2 USB ports, SIM slot, MicroSD slot, Flash, Adobe AIR, and ability to use all open eBook standards, the WePad bests the iPad in all of those categories. You can see the full comparison at TechCrunch.com. [...]

  • Jeff

    Sure, it does use ePub but with Apple’s own DRM.

    Therefore, you can’t view the books you bought without Apple programs and equipment.

    Using ePub doesn’t mean anything if you’re just going to use your own DRM.

  • Jeff

    It’s hard to praise a company for offering a lot less just because 90% of the consumer base is made up of incompetent and lazy people.

    Just make your product look shiny…

  • Jeff

    Statistics don’t lie; but, you can easily manipulate statistics.

    The only reason for your “consequences” with multitasking is because of the limitations with Apple’s hardware. They don’t use the best available. Heck, they even cut more costs by developing their own underpowered processor.

    “You can literally run 50 apps in an hour and never have to quit one.”

    Hrmm…? You have to quit one in order to open a new one… otherwise, we would call it “multitasking”.

  • Jeff

    “An iPhone 3GS with 600MHz processor outperforms Nexus One with 1000MHz processor.”

    I don’t own a Nexus One but youtube clips prove you wrong.

    Not saying the iPhone is slow but where the heck are you getting this from?

  • http://the-mobiler.com/the-neofonie-wepad-android-tablet The Neofonie WePad Android tablet

    [...] via TechCrunch EU [...]

  • http://www.uk-shoppingonline.com UK Shopping

    Great to see a bit of competition for the iPad, but without the hype most devices will get bulldozed by the iPad.

  • http://rub94fernandez.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/wepad-competencia-del-ipad/ WePad, competencia del iPad « NEWS OF INFORMATIC

    [...] con Axel Springer, el mayor grupo editorial alemán, algo que tiene sentido, tal y como apuntan en TechCrunch. Comments RSS [...]

  • sehn

    It could be nice, more about its features: http://bit.ly/wepad-tablet-impressions

  • DCullen

    Lenovo has a pretty cool new device that looks like what you mention here, Lenovo IdeaPad U1… Can’t imagine what it will cost, but all these new techno gadgets are fun! My latest hobby is just checking out the new products being unveiled online daily!

  • http://thepinkcrow.com Rachel Nabors

    Actually, Apple has consistently waited out those trends, watching what worked and what didn’t, then launched the products that exemplifies what they saw the market needed/wanted. This is the first time they’ve been the first in on a market, the tablet market.

    I think the iPad looks neat, but it has no pressure sensitivity. What I really want is a digital sketchpad. I will hold off on buying a tablet until one comes out with a pressure sensitive interface.

    Not everyone wants a digital sketchpad, I know, but others might be waiting for a web cam or Flash video support.

    In short, I don’t think the iPad is the end game of the tablet market. I think it’s a product that is going to kick off the game, but I expect someone else to release a much better, targetted device down the road, after everyone’s done making their mistakes and scrambling to copy each other.

  • RJ7855

    “his is the first time they’ve been the first in on a market, the tablet market.”

    What?? there we more tablets announced before Apple´s iPad and now there are more tables AVAILABLE before Apple´s iPad… so how you come by Apple being the first ??

  • RJ7855

    Entry of June last year: http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/

    If anything the iPad looks like a ripoff of this thing

  • http://renne.ro/it/tableta-wepad-android-zdrobeste-ipad-la-performante/ Tableta WePad Android zdrobeste iPad la performante | RENNE: Revista online

    [...] Compania germana Neofonie va lansa in aprilie o tableta care zdrobeste iPad la specificatiile tehnice. iPad va fi lansata pe 3 aprilie in SUA. Cu un ecran de 11,6 inci (29,5 cm), procesor de 1,66 GHz, camera in fata, doua porturi USB, slot pentru cartela SIM, slot pentru card MicroSD, suport Flash, Adobe AIR tableta WePad are si abilitatea de a deschide toate standardele de carti electronice. In plus are multitasking. WePad intrece iPad la aproape toate categoriile, potrivit unei comparatii facute de TechCrunch. [...]

  • http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/photographic-discussions/197844-apple-ipad-great-photographers.html#post1869683 Apple iPad great for photographers? – The Photo Forum – Photography Discussion Forum

    [...] Linkie – The HP Slate — Engadget Also there's another competitor, called the WePad. Linkie – Apple iPad? How about a little German innovation instead Now that I've looked, I think I'm actually going to be looking at the WePad. It has the same [...]

  • FjordPrefect

    I’m pretty sure you need to either correct the entry on the book format used by the iPad or publish a retraction. You should probably do this sooner than later.

    http://www.cultofmac.com/the-ipad-ibooks-app-uses-free-open-source-epub-format/28038

  • http://boycottnovell.com/2010/03/24/parted-magic-4-9/ Links 24/3/2010: Linux 2.6.34 Preview, Parted Magic 4.9 is Here | Boycott Novell

    [...] Apple iPad? How about a little German innovation instead The Neofonie WePad has similar form and function as the wet dreams of our Crunchgear editors, but facts are that the German Android device has a bigger multitouch screen and a faster CPU than the iPad. Also it runs Flash, has USB ports, an inbuilt card reader and expandable memory. Additionally it allows complete multitasking and has a webcam. Beat that baby. [...]

  • http://blog.mygazines.com/2010/03/24/wepad-specs-vs-ipad-ereader/ The WePad Hopes to be More Than the iPad | The Mygazines Blog

    [...] and photo credit: Techcrunch var addthis_language = 'en';var addthis_options = 'email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, [...]

  • Rumple

    Apple = simplicity. My grandma can’t figure out how to use a remote control – if Apple designed it she probably could. However this is not a good thing; to downgrade technology interfaces so the technologically challenged can use a device is not something that should be aspired to, especially at the high end of the market.

    People should not be looking to Apple as a saviour. The company is behaving in an economically fascist way, which is not good for anyone, and this is unfortunately praised by its fervent (almost religious) following. The fact that it is so prodigious in the market is because the Playstation generation can’t “understand” technology and certainly don’t want to be intellectually challenged by learning a new technology.

    The WePad looks great and I hope they find enough space in the market to be successful.

  • http://www.southerntechnologyleaders.com/news/hardware/wepad-may-be-to-royal-for-the-ipad/ WePad may be to royal for the Ipad | Southern Technology Leaders

    [...] With an 11.6-inch screen, 1.66GHz processor, front-facing camera, 2 USB ports, SIM slot, MicroSD slot, Flash, Adobe AIR, and ability to use all open eBook standards, the WePad bests the iPad in all of those categories. You can see the full comparison at TechCrunch.com. [...]

  • Alistair Dabbs

    Good points, although in Europe the Apple iPad is neither ‘here now’ nor is it ‘reasonably priced’. Rather, it is ‘no-one knows when’ and ‘extremely expensive’.

  • http://deansellsaz.com/2010/03/25/top-10-real-estate-posts-of-the-day-for-3252010/ Top 10 real estate posts of the day for 3/25/2010

    [...] Yahoo! app “sketches” the future of real estate search – With the iPad and the even cooler WePad devices coming this, things will changes. These will be a real game changer for real [...]

  • http://www.thewallworks.com Adam

    I’m so relieved to hear there is an Android tablet. Apple has really become unattractive because of their arrogance and control over their system. Unix systems are typicall “open source”, but Apple has become the Nazi of computers. No Flash or Air? No deal! Let alone the webcam and USB capabilities. Boycott the iPad!

  • applesux

    “Even not enough imagination for an original name (wePad)”

    to a ametuer to the wepad’s creators like i used to be, and u are. it would look like a name rip off and indeed it sucks in general, but, it appears they have many products named “we” and its a pad/tablet.. so “wepad” is pretty original/acceptable.

    this definately looks cool, cant wait till release so i can see it on youtube.. apple fails at delivering any glimpse of a reasonable price to their mid design products.

    @apple fannerds, apple products battery sucks bad w/o multitasking, and ur crying cause multitasking take a bit more? DUH IT TAKES MORE, 2 things running is obviously more expensive than one, but obviously multitasking OS has the option to multitask or not, in which apple doesnt.. if you dont wanna use ur battery up u can just stop multitaskin.. 1 of the huge list of customize features apple lacks.

    if u dont like all the widgets and “mess”, heres a idea… disable it! use whatever u want.. thats the awesome thing about this word thats not in apple’s dictionary “customization”

  • Mark

    Uhm, no they do not. First reason is that it is not secure.

  • http://netafrika.com/ereading/2010/03/29/wepad-un-serieux-concurrent-pour-lipad/ EreadingBlog » Blog Archive » WePad, un serieux concurrent pour l’iPad?

    [...] Techcrunch il pourrait être disponible avant l’iPad. Pour être informé des précommandes ici. Share [...]

  • http://thewaterrat.com/2010/03/29/europes-biggest-publisher-embraces-the-wepad/ Europe’s biggest publisher embraces the WePad « TheWaterRat

    [...] March 2010 As published on TechCrunch Europe [Germany] Billed as an iPad competitor, the WePad is not vaporware, but is in fact, The Chosen One. At least, that’s the view of some, who are [...]

  • http://www.popupbooster.com Scott Donovan

    The greatest thing about the iPad:
    Any vendor can make a better device at a lower price.

    is the iPad the next Lisa ?

  • http://vc-list.com/?p=2296 Europe’s Biggest Publisher Disses The iPad, Embraces The WePad | Venture Capital & Angel Investors Lists News and Jobs

    [...] as an iPad competitor, the WePad is not vaporware, but is in fact, The Chosen One. At least, that’s the view of some, who are [...]

  • http://bookbee.com.au/index.php/2010/03/30/europe%e2%80%99s-biggest-publisher-disses-the-ipad-embraces-the-wepad/ Europe’s Biggest Publisher Disses The iPad, Embraces The WePad | Bookbee

    [...] on 30. Mar, 2010 by JD in News Billed as an iPad competitor, the WePad is not vaporware, but is in fact, The Chosen One. At least, that's the view of some, who are [...]

  • AlfieJr

    exactly how many Android apps exist for the WePad’s big screen resolution/aspect ratio – 1366×768 @ 16:9? probably zero, or close to it. which is why the mock up shows what looks like multiple small Android apps scattered across the display (they could be pixel doubled and blown up like the iPad? ok, but not great).

    in other words, more Android fragmentation (while other proposed Android tablets also have varying display/resolution specs too). and a crummy user experience.

    whereas there will momentarily be thousands of new iPad apps designed to take full advantage of all its screen real estate in ways existing iPhone and Android apps can’t. now that is real “innovation.”

    except for gadget heads, it’s not about the bells and whistles. it’s about the user experience.

  • Steve

    LOLWUT!

    Are you one of those people that enjoys abuse?

  • Steve

    Wrong. You can view any of the free ePub books in the entire Gutenberg Project on an iPad.

  • Steve

    You’ve never used OSX then?

  • http://canhazblog.com/?p=7040 Europe’s Biggest Publisher Disses The iPad, Embraces The WePad | CanHazBlog.com

    [...] Uncategorized 30 Mar 2010 Billed as an iPad competitor, the WePad is not vaporware, but is in fact, The Chosen One. At least, that's the view of some, who are [...]

  • http://www.jbmetrics.com James Wallis Martin

    @Alfie

    All of our Flex cloud computing application automatically resize to the screen resolution of the browser. So the answer for the ability to take advantage of the 1366×768 is 100%, especially as it supports Flash 10.1 whereas the iPad does not (not for technical reasons, rather for monopolistic financial reasons).

    Over the next year we expect around 20 million users worldwide to use our cloud computing applications. If Jobs continues to block the use of Flash on the iPad, that is 20 million professionals who would otherwise be able to use the iPad.

    JB Metrics is just one company, multiply it by the thousands of Flex and Flash development companies building cloud computing applications, and it is clear to see this is a losing strategy for iPad and Apple.

  • Robin

    @AlfieJr,

    Android uses Scalable Drawables and containers and any (well written) app can scale perfectly to any screen size available, much like most programs on desktop computers. For non-scalable content (ej. icons) a developer can easily include various sizes of graphics and Android will use the most optimum version.
    The “multiple small Android apps scattered across the display” are widgets, Using a fixed resolution approach like iPad was innovation in 1980 .

    “Android fragmentation” is about having 4 different versions of the OS. Different screen sizes or device capabilities is called diversion and is a good thing (and Apple does the same thing with iPhone, iPod touch,iPad) not everybody wants exactly the same device as their neighbor, friends and family. Person A may prefer the 11″ tablet while person B may prefer a more portable 5″ tablet. One size does NOT fit all (Just like preferences of various people differ in choices of type and brand of car, size of their televisions, ect)
    And user experience for most people will be sub-optimal if they don’t have a choice that best fits their needs.

  • http://doong2appa.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/%ec%9c%a0%eb%9f%bd-%ec%b5%9c%eb%8c%80%ec%b6%9c%ed%8c%90%ec%82%ac%eb%93%a4-ipad-%eb%b2%84%eb%a6%ac%ea%b3%a0-wepad%eb%a1%9c-%ec%8a%b9%eb%b6%80/ 유럽 최대출판사들 ipad 버리고 Wepad로 승부! « Doong2appa's Social World

    [...] 말하고 있다.이것은 전의 본지 기사에 실린 성명과 완전히 같고, 그 후의 비판에 답하고 있지 [...]

  • http://211.232.128.122:8888/?p=94 유럽 최대출판사들 ipad 버리고 Wepad로 승부! « 쌍둥아빠의 쏘셜세상

    [...] 말하고 있다.이것은 전의 본지 기사에 실린 성명과 완전히 같고, 그 후의 비판에 답하고 있지 [...]

  • http://www.blutschwerter.de/f558-hardware-und-technik/t53948-apple-ipad-seite3.html#post1423322 Allgemein Apple iPad -Seite 3 – Blutschwerter

    [...] [...]

  • http://aitkener.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/competition-whats-all-the-hype/ Competition- What’s all the hype? « Taking a Bite into The iPad

    [...] a recent post by Markus Goebel Apple iPad? How about a little German innovation instead, Germany has come up with their own version of the tablet and they call it the WePad. Obviously a [...]

  • http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/stereo-electronics-electrical/101968-i-pad-8.html#post1633222 I-pad – Page 8 – Toyota FJ Cruiser Forum

    [...] iPad is cool but its totally lacking features IMO Im waiting to see what this ends up costing: Apple iPad? How about a little German innovation instead __________________ My Blog: Project FJ Special Thanks To:Brenthel Industries & Falken [...]

  • http://elearningstuff.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/dont-fancy-the-ipad-how-about-the-wepad/ Don’t fancy the iPad, how about the WePad? « e-Learning Stuff

    [...] reports on the WePad The Neofonie WePad has similar form and function to the iPad, but facts are that the [...]

  • http://www.itonmain.com/?p=36 What if I don’t want to Rock the iPad? » ITonMain

    [...] from Tech Crunchthat gives a nice overview of seven iPad competitors.  I am most intrigued by the WePad which runs on the Android OS.  Currently this device is not yet available outside of Germany, but [...]

  • mike

    hePad or shePad?

  • http://blog.citynetwork.se/teknik/magisk-och-revolutionerande/ Magisk och revolutionerande? | City|Network – Webbhotell och Serverdrift

    [...] heter WePad och jag tycker inte att jag behöver skriva mer. Läs mer om WePad och se om det inte är detta du är ute efter. Det är en fantastisk hype kring iPad men är det [...]

  • http://www.gustavogomez.me Gsquared

    While you can multi-task with a selected Apple created apps, what is nice about the WePad is that you can do whatever you want without Apple trying to control everything. This isn’t some no-name Operating system. It is Linux + Android (Google). Linus has been around for a really long time and is opened source, just like Android. What this means is that innovation happens much faster when anyone has access to the source code.

    Apple is supposed to represent the latest and greatest. However, they take advantage of most “low-tech” consumer’s ignorance about technology specs since they assume Apple is giving them the best (and for the price Apple charges for it’s products, it should). No web cam? Seriously? Wait, that might be an accessory and a way for Apple to get more of your hard earned money.

    The WePad represents a challenge to Apple. And for that, I salute you.

  • http://digitword.com/?p=984 DigitWord » Seven more iPad alternatives

    [...] WePad may be the most complete alternative to the iPad with Linux at the core and access to the Android [...]

  • http://www.bukv.net/%d0%b0%d0%bb%d1%8c%d1%82%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%b2%d1%8b-ipad-%d0%b8%d0%bb%d0%b8-%d0%b4%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b7%d0%b0-%d0%bf%d0%be-%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%bc%d1%8c-% Альтернативы iPad или Два Раза По Семь Самураев – Вторая Семерка | Хованка Кота Бегемота

    [...] вместе с таблицой сравнения WePad против iPad можно найти тут. Коротко о главном: процессор 1,66 GHz Intel Atom N450 Pineview-M, [...]

  • http://financegeek.com/i-really-hate-what-apple-is-trying-to-do-with-the-ipad/ Finance Geek » I Really Hate What Apple Is Trying To Do With The iPad

    [...] The iPad is purposely handicapped, but it doesn’t need to be. See the German WePad, which comes with USB port(s!), a camera, multitasking, and the more open Android operating system and [...]

  • http://thefastertimes.com/mediaandtech/2010/04/04/the-ipad-an-unhappy-return-to-the-past/ The iPad: An Unhappy Return to the Past | Media and Tech

    [...] The iPad is purposely handicapped, but it doesn’t need to be. See the German WePad, which comes with USB port(s!), a camera, multitasking, and the more open Android operating system and [...]

  • http://thefastertimes.com/tech/2010/04/04/the-ipad-an-unhappy-return-to-the-past/ The iPad: Where Creativity Goes to Die | Media and Tech

    [...] The iPad is purposely handicapped, but it doesn’t need to be. See the German WePad, which comes with USB port(s!), a camera, multitasking, and the more open Android operating system and [...]

  • http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archives/403 Two days with an iPad « Library Hat

    [...] on the lack of built-in camera, which is obviously an intentional omission. (For example, WePad runs Flash, comes with USB ports, a built-in web cam, an inbuilt card reader and expandable [...]

  • http://metafilm.com/wordpress/?p=56 I’m Really Worried About What Apple Is Trying To Do With The iPad | Metafilm

    [...] The iPad is purposely handicapped, but it doesn’t need to be. See the German WePad, which comes with USB port(s!), a camera, multitasking, and the more open Android operating system and [...]

  • http://keshoo.com/?p=732 iPad: Fazit nach vier Tagen – Keshoo? – Tomorrow? – Morgen?

    [...] iPad is purposely handicapped, but it doesn’t need to be. See the German WePad, which comes with USB port(s!), a camera, multitasking, and the more open Android operating system and [...]

  • http://pietrowski.info/2010/04/pedro-news-18-24-03-2010/ Pedro News 18-24.03.2010 « Pragmatic Programmer Issues – pietrowski.info

    [...] the German iPad competitor from hardware point of view it [...]

  • http://www.techalps.com/wireless/tablet-revolution.html Tablet Revolution! | Tech Alps

    [...] WePad [...]

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    [...] WePad [...]

  • http://www.blackhorsegeek.com/2010/04/the-wepad-gets-a-price-and-launch-date/ The WePad gets a price and launch date | BLACKHORSEGEEK

    [...] WePad made headlines a few weeks back when the tablet launched out of seemingly nowhere. It’s [...]

  • Ian

    Looks great from what I’ve seen so far – better than the iPad – and not having to suffer Apple’s crappy locked-in ecosystem is even better (and seeing how they are screwing the thousands of developers as of late by forcing them to code in only the languages/toolkits they approve of (quality not even being part of the equation), you will see even more developers bail on Apple).

    Android apps & device adoption are growing faster than Apple anyway, and suffer none of the authoritarian death-grip control of AppleCorp.

  • David

    Chill, Snitzelglobin in liederhozen

  • http://ohsohightech.se/alternativ-till-ipad/ Alternativ till iPad | Ohsohightech.se

    [...] Läs mer: WePad officiell hemsida, TechCrunch om WePad [...]

  • http://www.themaxnotes.com Max

    Hey Guys,

    maybe you realised that the FAQ is the only part of the WePad homepage which is not yet translated into english. So I sat down and translated it. It’s nothing official, but contains the same information the german FAQ does. Have fun: http://computerwissenschaft.blogspot.com/2010/04/we-asked-wepad-faq-english-version.html

    Dearest Max

  • meeka
  • Gustav

    @Hamranhansenhansen you should pull the apples out of your ass, little fanboy

  • http://digitaltablets.org/digital-tablets/wepad-is-now-called-wetab-%e2%80%93-under-pressure-from-apple-569/ PC Tablets – Apple, MicroSite, HP, Google, Lenovo, Nokia internet tablet news

    [...] the German company behind the much-hyped iPad rival WePad, has changed the name of its tablet computer to WeTab, in a surprise move. The company has announced the name change on its Facebook page, [...]

  • http://kimebn.com/2010/05/10/en-mulig-erstatter-for-de-som-ikke-fr-ipad/ En mulig erstatter for de som ikke får iPad | KimEBN – iTeknologi

    [...] TechCrunch satte sin lit til daværende WePad, nåværende WeTab(etter ‘push’ fra Apple, ref TC). For alle de som er skuffet over at iPad’n er forsinket til Norge kan jo kanskje dette være et alternativ? [...]

  • http://www.chicagopiattorney.com Jason Rubens

    Having a USB port is huge. This sounds much better than the ipad just because of this feature.

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  • http://gfxme.net/home/2010/06/tackling-rich-media-for-tablets-with-adobe-cs5-part-1/ Tackling Rich Media for Tablets with Adobe CS5: Part 1 – GFX Me

    [...] line up includes Notion Ink’s ADAM, but there are others as well, including the Marvell Moby, WePad and the Dell Mini 5, to mention a [...]

  • http://techglow.co.cc/tackling-rich-media-for-tablets-with-adobe-cs5-part-1 Tackling Rich Media for Tablets with Adobe CS5: Part 1 | techglow.co.cc

    [...] line up includes Notion Ink’s ADAM, but there are others as well, including the Marvell Moby, WePad and the Dell Mini 5, to mention a [...]

  • paul

    you have been able to read and lissen to music at the same time on a kindle since it first came out

  • Aria

    I’m going for the Microsoft’s Courier Tablet. There’s more than hype.

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  • krzystoff

    a more accurate analogy:

    Apple = Cadillac (ie. shiny, slick, over-hyped, over-priced, under-performing, trashy)

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