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Chinese outfit announces $99 iPad mini knockoff ‘GooPad mini’ coming in November (with video)

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 · 5:37 pm · 28 Comments

“The makers of the GooPhone I5 seem to be back and this time they’re ripping off Apple’s new smaller tablet,” Brad Reed reports for BGR.

“According to GizmoChina, Chinese Apple knockoff company GooPhone has already announced plans to sell the GooPad mini, a new eight-inch tablet that bears a striking resemblance to the just-announced iPad mini,” Reed reports. “The GooPad mini will reportedly sell for just $99 and will be released sometime in November.”

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Joe Architect" for the heads up.]

Categories: News

Tags: China, GooPad mini, GooPhone, iPad mini, iPad mini knockoff

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28 Comments

Alcancun

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 5:44 pm · Reply

Well that proves it… The Mini will be huge!!!!
- GM
  
  Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 11:45 pm · Reply
  
  I wonder if Derek Currie will say that the Goo Pad Mini won’t happen either? Just like he said the iPad mini won’t arrive. Remember?
RLB

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 5:49 pm · Reply

Almost-President Romney needs to get into office. He had a very clear and good working with China.
- Howard Bacaaaeo
  
  Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 11:18 pm · Reply
  
  Hang on to that dream, Bubba.
  Mittens is not going to be the next president. God doesn’t hate us enough to allow that to happen. As for working with China, you’re right about that. He facilitated the sending of enough jobs there.
  LOL.
  - devfr
    
    Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 10:53 am · Reply
    
    Take the politics elsewhere.
R2

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 5:54 pm · Reply

At least they give their customers 1GB RAM. The iPad mini is probably still stuck on 512K.
- 3l3c7ro
  
  Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 11:11 pm · Reply
  
  And you know that it makes a difference because you have detailed performance test data? Just because something has ‘more’ specs doesn’t mean it is better. You must be a very recent Apple user who still is stuck in a Microsoft world.
  - R2
    
    Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 5:10 am · Reply
    
    Know that what makes a difference? Oh yeah, the RAM in the iPad mini you said would never be created. Lol.
    
    And anybody with a brain knows that it makes a big damn difference.
danilko1

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 5:57 pm · Reply

This is stupid. They took the mini iPad photo and released a statement. There is no such thing. They are basically advertising their intent to kerf, it doesn’t mater what Apple released.
- MBBM
  
  Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 11:27 pm · Reply
  
  That’s the first thing I noticed. I went to the Apple site just to make a comparison. It’s an exact copy of what’s on the Apple site. It’s very telling of how terrible a product is going to be if you need to copy the photo from a different product.
Mr Peabody

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 5:58 pm · Reply

Craptacular.
Zisou

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 6:11 pm · Reply

More future landfill contents.
Now, Now...

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 6:18 pm · Reply

GooPad.. Goo?… Goo?… Eww! Sounds like a ‘porn’ description.
- 3l3c7ro
  
  Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 11:12 pm · Reply
  
  I don’t have enough exposure to know these sort of things.
Adam

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 6:30 pm · Reply

You had me at “may of known”…
Petey

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 6:42 pm · Reply

Lol that is so funny!

The world has gone crazy.

I really can’t take that seriously at all.

Are people that pathetic in china that they think they can copy the image from the apple website homepage and do a amateurish movie to sell that crap.

It’s pretty sad really, very sad that a country and its people are that desperate.
Buster

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 6:42 pm · Reply

English is the ONLY language in the world where two positives make a negative…….yeah right.
iBagwan

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 6:52 pm · Reply

WAIT! Samdung has a subsidiary in China?????
tomL

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 7:24 pm · Reply

I can only imagine the quality of the fit and finish, assuming they actually make any.
The Other Steve

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 7:35 pm · Reply

I think I’ll copy a flux capacitor photo from Universal Pictures and ask people to send me money to my P.O. box in China.

Don’t worry, I’ll send something back to you. It may not look like anything in the photo, but you’ll get something.

Don’t forget Rules of Acquisition #1 (and #239)
botvinnik

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 9:15 pm · Reply

that was worse than a blind date with Ellen.
Steve

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 9:48 pm · Reply

Goo…? Goo? First the Goo Phone. Now the Goo Pad! Where is the Goo Pod?

GOO GOO GOO! Sounds grotesque! I gotta vomit now
Bob

Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 3:59 am · Reply

Fire up the photocopy machines Samsung and China. Heaven forbid you actually design something yourselves!!!
Swissclock

Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 9:06 am · Reply

Will the Swiss railway require the chinese company pays something ?

http://www.gizmochina.com/2012/10/23/goopad-mini-the-ipad-mini-knock-off-will-launch-in-november/

http://www.sbb.ch/sbb-konzern/medien/medienmitteilungen.newsdetail.2012-10-1210_1.html
riffraff111

Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 11:03 am · Reply

Android – why does Google allow this rip off company to use their system?
- Red
  
  Friday, October 26, 2012 - 10:17 am · Reply
  
  Google doesn’t care who uses Android. They’re making money off the users no matter what, and the poor fools don’t even realize it.
KarlV

Friday, October 26, 2012 - 7:45 am · Reply

Companies and people like these give Asia and China in particular a very bad reputation in many people’s eyes. “China crap” is a common term and probably it own word in some sense. Any nation should despises people like this.
Crystal

Monday, December 10, 2012 - 3:47 am · Reply

I heard that there is selling for Goopad Mini on website Orientdeal. I bought one for Christmas with paypal payment and the item is good. If you need, you can also try it on orientdeal for goopad mini