By Desire Athow
Chinese vendors are flooding the market with a lot of tech products, some of them more innovative than others. Most of them tend to replicate existing products and try to make them cheaper rather than better.
There are a number of reasons why this is the case: tapping into an existing market means that there’s often no marketing to be done. The supply chain is also generally set up to deliver solutions similar to what is already present on the market. Which brings us to our third reason – there’s little, if any, research and development money going into these products.
This rather convoluted introduction brings us to the Chuwi Hi12, the bigger brother of the Chuwi Hi10 which we reviewed earlier this year. While the latter makes no bones about its target, the Microsoft Surface 3, a product that is far more expensive (£419 with 2GB of RAM, or $499 in the US – which is around AU$650), the Hi12 finds itself in a rather different situation.
It is essentially a Hi10 with a bigger display (12-inch, 2160 x 1440 pixels versus 10-inch, 1920 x 1200 pixels), a different aspect ratio (3:2 as opposed …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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