The long awaited (by some) JooJoo tablet from FusionGarage is now shipping. You may remember that this tablet features a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, Nvidia Ion graphics and a 12.1″ capacitive touchscreen display. It also runs on a custom OS that’s built mainly for web-browsing speed.
The JooJoo tablet is going to be coming to market here in a few weeks, and before this could happen it had to be approved by the FCC. Luckily they took alot of good pictures of their teardown and put them on their website for us to see. Apparently the JooJoo is going to feature an Nvidia Ion GPU (first generation) along with an N270 processor. This means it should be able to handle most HD video, but that battery life might not be all that great (try 2-4 hours).
Yesterday we received word how the former Crunchpad was rebranded as the JooJoo and was available for pre-order on Friday. Well Cnet has gotten their hands on one for a hands-on look at the new tablet. Video at the end of the post.
The JooJoo features a 12.1″ 720p 1366 x 768 capacitive touchscreen. It has a built in accelerometer, webcam, mic, speakers, 1 usb port, and a card reader. There’s a 4GB SSD drive but no other storage, it’s meant to all be stored on “the cloud”.
It uses a proprietary Linux based OS who’s only purpose is to boot into a browser (sounds exactly like Google Chrome doesn’t it).
There are no buttons except for the power button, and the device is under 3 pounds. The battery life is under 5 hours though, and the price of $499 might not go over too well with most consumers.
They said the device is very nice to handle, and if the price ever comes down these things might start selling like hotcakes. Would you spend $500 on the JooJoo?
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