Fusion Garage unveils $499 Grid 10 tablet, $399 Grid 4 smartphone

By on Aug 15, 2011 at 12:40 PM
mobile August 15, 2011

After teasing a new tablet under the parody brand “TabCo” for the past several months, Fusion Garage took the wraps off of the Grid 10 tablet and a new Grid 4 smartphone on Monday. The Grid 10 offers a custom “GridOS” operating system, is equipped with a 10.1-inch 1366 x 768-pixel display and is powered by a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset presumably clocked at 1GHz. The GridOS supports Android applications as well, and users can purchase and download new apps from the “Grid Shop” or from Amazon’s App Store. In addition, GridOS has a unique home screen that allows users to create “clusters” of applications that span over an infinite amount of space. Fusion Garage also announced a GridOS-powered smartphone — the $399 Grid 4, which will ship in the fourth quarter — that will be powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The Grid 10 Wi-Fi tablet will launch on September 15th for $499, and a 3G-capable version will follow for $599. Amazon will carry the tablet and pre-orders are open now. Also of note, all existing JooJoo owners will receive a free Grid 10 in the coming months.

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  • Anonymous

    Wow. FAIL.

  • http://profiles.google.com/austinhuff520 Austin Huff

    LOL.

  • Chuck

    Still calling it the Joo Joo.

  • Adam Beutler

    Well done on giving the early adopters a free one.  HPalm should pay attention to that.

    • Anonymous

      How many early adopters of the JooJoo do you really think there was after the Debacle that launch was ? . . . they know they aren’t losing money at all donig it lol

      • Adam Beutler

        All the money that went into the first JooJoo is lost and now they are loosing more by giving those people free ones.  I think it shows good faith that they are giving out new ones no matter how many were bought in the first round.  People are so down on these guys.  It would be hard as hell to start a new product line with a new os.  Look how hard it is for WebOS and they have HP behind them.

  • BH

    Grid is a joke…. they are using Android kernel and the “CEO the big
    fan of Apple” claims it’s not an Android… i believe the Tablet will
    not last long in the market so let’s wait and see who’s gonna get it…

  • Anonymous

    … not to mention the utter FAIL of launching a Tegra2 product…at the end of Tegra2′s lifecycle !!!

  • http://twitter.com/turkudellinger Misha Dellinger

    The laugh factory in full swing. What we all needed right now is a craptablet with an OS with all the failings of Android and none of the perks. If you hype things up like the big boys you better be one of the big boys or you end up with an Edsel on your hands.

  • serpentor

    the servers couldn’t handle extra space for a pic of the Grid 4?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Bell/100001788867831 Mike Bell

    DOA = Dead On Arrival

    • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

      What’s wrong with it? It’s an Android tablet running the standard hardware set, just with some nifty designy stuff thrown on top. At worst, it can probably still outsell the Xoom.

      • Toby

        Why do all of you think it’s an android OS tablet? The OS is open source so you can make API’s that perform the same functions as the android OS… And whats with all the f’ing hate. Mad you’re mind can’t build crap all? is it hard sweeping the floors all day? The Tegra 2′s a damn good processor too. Great visuals and can decode HD video very well… I’m not going to buy one but I’m interested in seeing what it’s capable of.

      • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

        When it comes to mobile platforms, the biggest thing people worry about is which app store they get access to. Of course Android is open so anyone can skin it however they want and even call it their own OS.

        My first question was NOT rhetorical. I fully support this tablet and any other upstarts that are bold enough to do hardware. I was simply pointing out that if it runs Android on standard hardware, then it can’t possibly be DoA.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5HSF7K6WH3MOY3WOLI6C52M3LM Lily Rice

    I just paìd $22.85 for an ìPad 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.78 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $625 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHub.còm

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