A contender steps into the tablet PC ring with heavyweight, Apple Inc

BEIJING - Apple's iPad may have met its first serious Chinese challenger in the tablet PC market in China: Beijing ErenEben Information Technology Co

The Chinese "dark horse" sells portable wireless products like the iPad in China, and their sales performance is almost on par with the iPad in the Chinese mainland now.

Established in 2009, Beijing ErenEben (which roughly translates to "everybody gets one") is very different from Chinese iPad copycat makers. Beijing ErenEben built its own tablet PC research and development (R&D) team in 2004, and launched its first portable PC on Jan 7 this year - three months before iPad launched in the United States.