We’ve seen Chinese tablets that look like phones before. But the folks at Shanzhaiben have spotted something a bit different: a netbook that thinks it’s a phone. On paper the computer looks like a typical netbook with a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 processor, 10 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, and a 3700mAh…

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The Apple iPad 2 may have been unveiled just yesterday, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early for Chinese knockoff artists to start producing iPad 2 clones. In fact, one of the first is a tablet that many news sites were reporting on before Apple’s new tablet launched… under the impression that it could actually be the iPad 2. It…

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You know you have a successful product on your launch when Chinese companies take it upon themselves to mimic your design. We’ve seen plenty of Apple iPad clones, but the APAD IMX515 G10 is one of the first Samsung Galaxy Tab clones to hit the market… the market, being China. The case design is pretty clearly inspired by the Galaxy…

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Lenovo ThinkPad products are known for their premium specs and no-nonsense case design. But a Chinese company is apparently adding a bit of nonsense by releasing a knockoff that looks like the Lenovo ThinkPad X200, complete with ThinkPad branding. But the processing power has been seriously dialed back with the inclusion of a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor and integrated…

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The last mini-laptop I saw from Chinese PC builder Vayee was an 11.6 inch laptop designed to look like a MacBook Air (before Apple had an 11.6 inch MacBook Air). Now the company is back with a 10 inch netbook designed to look like a Nokia Booklet 3G. The Vayee netbook has 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, 1GB of RAM,…

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Over the past year or so we’ve seen a number of cheap Chinese tablets running Windows and designed to look like an oversized iPhone. In fact, these iPhone-clonesque tablets were coming out even before Apple officially unveiled the iPad — which looks a bit like an iPhone, but which has its own distinctive design elements. So it was really only…

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What happens if you take the Asus UL30, scoop out the insides and replace the Intel CULV processor with an Atom chip and NVDIIA IOn graphics? I have no idea, but the folks at Phecda have done the next best thing by producing a UL30 clone called the Phecda P13. The notebook has a 13.3 inch, 1366  x 768 pixel…

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The HP Mini 5103 may seem like the netbook that has it all — an all-metal case, 7200RPM hard drive, optional HD and touchscreen displays, an optional dual core CPU, hard drive sensor to prevent damage, and even a battery indicator built right into the battery. But you know what it doesn’t have? NVIDIA ION graphics. Fortunately there’s always a…

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You’d be forgiven if you took one look at the new Laser One Chinese laptop and thought it was yet another variation of Acer’s Aspire One 10 inch netbook series. I’m pretty sure that’s what the manufacturer wants you to think after all. But als, it’s just another cheap knockoff. Shanzhaiben reports that the Laser One is also both cheaper…

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The Dell Adamo laptop is a high priced, high powered thin and light machine, with prices starting at $999. The Shenzhen Zingzheng Yu N98 isn’t. But it steals many design cues from Dell’s high end notebook. The difference is that on the inside, the N98 is all netbook — and it has the low $209 price tag to match. The…

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The Nokia Booklet 3G made a pretty big splash when it hit the water last year. And then it kind of sunk. I’m not sure I’ve ever actually seen one in the wild unless you count a Best Buy retail display as wild. And aside from a high price tag and rather unorthadox case design, Nokia didn’t really bring that…

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We’ve seen dozens of netbooks come out of Shanzai shops in China which look like exact replicas (or at least distant cousins) of name brand computers. But one company is taking things to a new level by not just cloning the look and feel of the HP Mini 5102 netbook — but also cloning HP’s packaging… sort of. Tenda’s HP…

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