by Michael Bettiol on February 5th, 2010 at 6:19am
Filed under: Hardware 52 Comments
It might have legal issues galore thanks to Chandra Rathakrishnan’s legendary row with Michael Arrington, but the internet tablet formerly known as the CrunchPad has finally entered into production and should begin shipping later this month. To retail for $499 USD, the JooJoo features a 12.1″ multi-touch capacitive display with native resolution of 1366 x 768, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, 4GB SSD, front-facing camera, accelerometer, support for Flash (HD Flash will be all systems go when 10.1 comes out of beta) as well as a bunch of givens like integrated speakers, a 3.5mm headphone jack and USB port. Also announced today is Fusion Garage’s intent to open an app web store in which JooJoo owners will be able to grab whatever developers can make using some proprietary “but standards driven” APIs. Rathakrishnan et al are rather confident that their device will be able to take on competitors such as the HP Slate and Apple iPad, even going so far as to say of the later that the JooJoo is bigger, fully supports Flash (the real internet) and will beat its major competitors to the market, but one has to wonder what it’s all for in a day and age where most people are brand-conscious to the point where they’ll often turn away from something far better. We guess you have to start somewhere.
Tags: Bluetooth, capacitive, Flash, Flash 10.1, Fusion Garage, HD Flash, JooJoo, multi-touch, SSD, tablet, Wi-Fi
52 Responses to “JooJoo enters production, ships this month”
eazid says:
Since a large amount of the website nowadays use flash.
+4
Your iPad? I didn’t know they were actually a shipping product yet. Where did you get yours from?
The whole flash-is-the-internet-or-not discussion has been had in many places already:
http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/blue_boxes
MobileGuru says:
Im guessing that your an apple fanboy? Which means ur the brand conscious type? which also means u have money to burn?
Joe says:
Boo Apple fanboys, the iPad is a GIANT miss for Apple. It is a giant iPhone and offers nothing new, I have absolutely no idea why anybody wouldn’t want this over that piece of junk. Other than blindness from the Cupertino hype machine.
iamajimm says:
The ipad is basicly a content consumer;it’s mission is to take you to the istore where you can buy surprise all of the goodies there. it’s an enterainment device (with potential, I grant you). all of the behind scenes lining up of the print media should have been a big clue. crApple is taking dead aim at Amazon/Kindle, period. after that, the rest of the wwworld.
Ekdizz says:
I love Flash.
No wait.
I love HTML5.
No wait.
I love Flash.
No wait.
I love HTML5.
Diabl0 says:
Maybe Joojoo feels the tablet-fever that’s why they’re still pursuing the production of this device. Either way, I support them, not that I’m hoping too much, but them bringing another tablet to the table brings a new type of competition, which in somehow the users might benefit.
,,JooJoo: Tablet for the who details: http://bit.ly/joojoo-who-tablet
Thanks victoria
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