Hot Link: Move over iPad, All Hail the “RedPad”

The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report has a post citing a recent Chinese media report on the “ideologically Communist” RedPad, an Android tablet that is tailored towards “China’s Communist platforms such as the website of the party’s People’s Daily mouthpiece” and a princely pricetag of RMB 9,999.

Like many other electronic tablets, the Red Pad features swipe control of apps, a touchscreen, an A9 dual-core processor, 16GB of flash storage. WiFi and 3G connectivity. But unlike more proletariat tablets that tout the ability to run Angry Birds, the Red Pad comes loaded with apps that tap into the latest in Party Thought, like “E-Politics Square.” Others track the Weibo postings of senior leaders as well as their movements.

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