Remember the European tablet device WePad ? We reviewed it when the details of WePad came out publicly for the first time and now we have another news regarding WePad.

WePad is no more….No, no..don’t take it the same way you interpreted the news of HP Slate’s project shutdown or Microsoft Courier’s brutal slaughter. It’s just that the brand ‘WePad’ is no more.

WePad has now officially changed its product name to WeTab. Here is the official statement from Neofonie..

To clearly differentiate our products within the international market for tablet computers, as of today we have changed the product name of our tablet computer from WePad to WeTab. Similarly, the company formerly known as WePad GmbH will now trade under WeTab GmbH. This change only concerns the name of the product and company. All other particulars and pre-orders are not affected.

As we noted in our review of WePad, the brand name sounded like a cheap copycat of Apple iPad and that’s probably one strong reason why WePad is now WeTab.

Apart from that, another reason could also be Apple’s issues with the closely resembled name of WePad with iPad and everyone knows how fuzzy Apple is about all such things, even when iPad is cruising away and looking almost invincible in tablet space.

R.I.P. WePad !

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