The Crunchpad was a much anticipated 12.1″ capacitive touchscreen internet tablet that was supposed to sell for $200. It would store most of its data on the “cloud” Google Chromium style and would be used mainly for internet browsing because it had no keyboard.
After a big fight between the developer (Fusion garage) and the creator (Micheal Arrington from Techcrunch) the device was cancelled right before launch. Well Fusion Garage has announced that it will launch it anyway, but it will be called the JooJoo (who came up with this?) and will be priced at $499. As quoted by the founder of Fusion Garage, “We can take this to market without TechCrunch… TechCrunch is just a blog.” Now that’s funny stuff, and true.
It will feature a 4GB SSD drive and all of the usual ports. According to fusion garage this is a deal because nothing has touchscreens this large at this price. I won’t comment on this but to say that he should be comparing this to an e-reader instead of other touchscreen netbooks with Windows 7 and 250GB hard drives.
It does have some interesting parts such as a built in accelerometer and sub 10 second boot times, and the ability to output full HD videos.
We won’t have to wait long for the reviews because the device is going on sale this Friday at midnight, but they won’t ship for a couple of weeks.
via Engadget
