It’s the same trouble all “for Linux” mobile products seem to have. Underpowered, outdated and massively overpriced tech, they never seem to be actually suitable for modern daily driving. I know they’re all “niche” products, and it’s hard to charge a reasonable price for low manufacturing run stuff. I had a look at the pictures and the HPad6, and if it’s not literally the same item (different screen aside) I’ll eat my grungy work boot. I get needing to turn a profit, but $733 plus taxes/shipping/etc for something that they’re absolutely getting for less than the $200 you’d pay for a single unit off AliExpress, badging inclusive. They’ll be ordering in bulk, and getting a healthy discount.

Actually, I was nosing around, and it looks like the HPad6 is probably a rebranded Alldocube iplay 60 pro, which is about £50ish if you buy 100. Don’t really want to jump to conclusions and blow things out of proportion…buuuuuut… I’ve got all these pitchforks and torches…and it’d be a pain to return them…

Edit: I made an error, the Alldocube that’s £50ish for 100 is the lower spec one, for same spec as the one in the article it’s actually around £80-130 on orders of >1000 units