Apple iPad tablet design is copied from Chinese P-88 tablet PC: A silly publicity stunt

A Chinese company, named Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Company, claimed that the design Apple iPad tablet is a copy of its P88 tablet PC which was released in China six months ago. In an interview with Spanish National newspaper, El Mundo, Xiaolong Wu, President, Shenzhen Great Loong Borther Company, said that if the Apple iPad comes to China then he would not have any choice but to sue Apple on the ground of “plagiarism” as Apple iPad would affect his product sales. Wired.com reports:

Wu says that Apple has not only copied the concept of a multitouch tablet, but also the design of the case and screen bezel. And pre-empting our obvious criticism, that the P88 is just a large-scale iPhone or iPod Touch rip-off, Wu says that “they have nothing to do with it, as they have completely different functions.”

I am not tech savvy person but looking at the two pictures, it does not appear to me that the design of the two devices are identical. The P-88 tablet PC has a 10.2 inch resistive touch screen, a 250 GB HDD, 1.3 mp webcam and Intel 945GSE chipset and 1GB RAM. The device runs on Windows OS. The P-88 also has a very poor battery life; 1.5 hours. Compared to Apple tablet PC, the P-88 is a poor quality machine. Mr. Wu is just got into a disgusting publicity stunt.

UK techsite- Register compared the specs of the two devices:

P88 OS: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Linux

Apple iPad OS: iPhone OS

P88 processor: 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor

Apple iPad processor: 1GHz Apple A4 SoC

P88 display: 10.2-inch, 1024x600 touchscreen display

Apple iPad display: 9.7-inch, 1024x768 multi-touch display

P88 memory: 160 or 250GB hard drive

Apple iPad memory: 16, 32, or 64GB flash storage

P88 battery life: 1.5 hours

Apple iPad battery life: 10 hours with a standby time of more than a month.

P88: weight of 1.03 kilograms

Apple iPad weight: 1.5 pounds (Wi-Fi model); 1.6 pounds (Wi-Fi + 3G model)

P88: three USB 2.0 ports

Apple iPad I/O port: single 30-pin iPhonesque USB connector

P88: VGA, Ethernet (10/100BASE-T), and dual Mini PCI-E connectors; expandable RAM, 1.3-megapixel camera, 3-in-1 card reader

Apple iPad: N/A

P88: Base price starts from $525

Apple iPad: Base price starts from $499