Eken M003 “iPad inspired” Android tablet at an “iPad uninsipired” price

10:25 AM, Apr 21st, 2010 9 Comments

It you want to be nice, you could call Eken’s new M003 tablet “iPad inspired.” If you wanted to be truthful you could call it a Shenzhen clone of an iPad — a highly reflective one at that.

This is Eken’s second Android tablet. The first is the M001 7-inch Android tablet which was first shown under the name Haleron iLet Mini HAL tablet last month. Unlike the unique look of the M001, Eken’s M003 forgoes all that and targets a familiar design — even down to its near square shape and iconic menu button. The M003 is slightly smaller than Apple’s iPad with a screen of 8-inches. It uses an VIA ARM 600MHz processor (or Prizm platform) and runs Android 1.6. Judging by the video it clearly has a resistive touchscreen, SIM slot for possible 3G, USB and SD card slot.

However, for the quoted price of $104 U.S. per unit (if buying more than 100) it might not matter that it’s a poor-man’s iPad clone. In this economy, there are a lot of poor men.

Source: Shanzai

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9 Responses to “Eken M003 “iPad inspired” Android tablet at an “iPad uninsipired” price”

  1. Yur4a Reply 1:28 PM, Apr 21st, 2010 at 1:28 pm

    + Very slim

    - A bit slow, and i dont like the frame around screen.

  2. Phil Reply 10:55 AM, Apr 30th, 2010 at 10:55 am

    Aw come on!!!

    At $104 there’s really no room to complain.

    I keep hearing people comment that 600mhz is slow… wrong! It’s only slow with a full-fledged OS, but can be a real speed demon on PDA-inspired devices such as this. (My little 400mhz PDA can blow any computer out of the water on certain tasks.)

  3. GloriousMall Reply 2:02 PM, May 2nd, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    You can get this product from our website.

  4. Haider Abbas Reply 5:48 AM, May 18th, 2010 at 5:48 am

    This is an excellent product. I tested the 7 inch EKEN M001 for Virginia Theological University for several weeks and its the best alternative to the Apple tablet. Virginia Theological University is deploying the M001 in 2011 for by that time the second generation will have a better battery life compared to current 2 hours on full charge.

  5. aihd Reply 1:42 PM, May 21st, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    This is the same? Here just $ 150 http://www.mart-shopping.com/eken-m003-mini-ipad8-inch-android1-6-ebook-tablet-pc-umpc-mid-netbook-black.html

  6. octavius Reply 2:12 PM, Nov 13th, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    people seems to forget that just about everything that is made is made in china and the eken m003 is not no clone or knock off its something unique and thats why it was create and probably was create way before apple decided to do a ipad and there are so many tablet out there so why complain.

  7. ahmad Reply 11:27 AM, Jan 14th, 2011 at 11:27 am

    from where i get the power adapter

  8. Mario Reply 3:03 AM, Mar 26th, 2011 at 3:03 am

    DOES THE M003 HAVE BLUETOOTH COMPATIBILITY?

  9. Armando Reply 2:24 PM, Nov 8th, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    can anybody tell me if there is a camera on the m003