JooJoo enters production, ships this month

By on Feb 5, 2010 at 6:19 AM
Hardware February 5, 2010

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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.

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  • Joe

    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

    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

    I love Flash.

    No wait.

    I love HTML5.

    No wait.

    I love Flash.

    No wait.

    I love HTML5.

  • Bloobo

    i want a joojoo!!!!

  • Jeremiah

    4 gig SSD? non- expandable? meh.

    • Randy J

      USB slot means it is infinitely expandable – and can swap files and have backups unlike iPad

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    Other than blindness from the Cupertino hype machine.

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    there are more people that will take a chance on that device because of Apple name alone.

  • Jay

    I was just thinking that Mr. Arrington better get his lawyers to work quickly and get that money before this thing flops and bankrupts the company. As much as people think the iPad is a failure waiting to happen, there are more people that will take a chance on that device because of Apple name alone.

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