(By Americanfreak on Sat, Feb-06-2010 - 225 Reads)
According to Spanish site Elmundo, Shanzhai manufacturer 'Shenzhen Great Long Brother' are considering taking legal action against Apple for copying their tablet design. Featured on Shanzai.com back in October, its seems that the P88 tablet design is considered by its designers to be entirely original, the intellectual rights of which it intends to protect. Talk about the shoe being on the other foot!
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We’ve written several times in the past on the rumors and stories floating around about a possible Apple tablet device. Apple themselves on their recent fourth-quarter earnings call helped to fuel the rumors by suggesting that they expected to see abnormal increases in Q1 2010 air freight costs that have “nothing to do with iPhone or iPod”. So, if a tablet is in the wings, what does it look like? Perhaps a little like this device from one of the bigger shanzhai players.
The P88 from Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co. is quite a simple design featuring a 10.2” 1024x600 touch screen. In a country where rumors and word of mouth are king, has someone at Great Long Bro. got early word on what the Apple device will look like? It wouldn’t be the first time a “clone” has appeared in China before the launch of the real product.
