That’s sexy, I’m getting excited just looking at it.
I was just reading an article in the paper about people lining up to get the iPad from some store, and all I could think was “you’re getting ripped off.” But this, THIS is wicked. Quick, somebody get the Linux!

heat pipes!!! wow, i bet steve jobs is crying.

There’s no way I would give this company a penny of my hard earned cash. Fusion Garage effectively stole the Crunchpad (now JooJoo) from TechCrunch. It was originally meant to be $199 and is now $499. Mind you, the JooJoo will probably go the way of the dodo pretty soon considering that they only received 90 pre-orders for the device and 15 of those have either been cancelled or returned as of the end of March.

@phil i was about to post the same thing

> Fusion Garage effectively stole the Crunchpad (now JooJoo) from TechCrunch.
Not really, Michael Arrington is just an idiot.

@Maave
An LED screen is still an LCD. It’s just backlit by LEDs instead of a CCFL. Perhaps you mean an OLED screen?

I’d be interested in the JooJoo as soon as someone figures out how to hack a real OS on there (Ubuntu, XP/7, Hackintosh).

@Brett
Maybe Maave prefers displays comprised entirely of discrete LEDs?
aka “lite brite computing”

I love the losers here saying that ipad buyers are getting ripped off yet this Piece of crap is getting high praise and nobody but a few journalists have touched one.

Plus, if you whiners would simply learn to use google, someone has ALREADY JAILBROKE the iPad and has it running apps that anger apple. (Apps that anger apple are ones that they wont let in the apple store.)

I honestly believe that ANY of these products that sell for more than $99.00 is a rip-off. but I’m biased against overpriced hype that people fawn all over for no real reason. This JOO JOO pad is a useless piece of crap as well. And those of you screaming “put linux on it” do you even know linux? Linux SUCKS for tablet use. I know, I have screwed with it in tablet form for over a decade, and I have used tablet pc’s for nearly 20 years. (Dauphin DTR1 was the first tablet pc, and I had one, suck it bitches!)

Linux has no useable tablet support. so quit spouting about “put linux on it, put linux on it” why? to make it unuseable? If all you kids in your mom’s basement want a linux tablet so bad, go on ebay and buy a old fujitsu for around $200.00 and put linux on it and maybe use your 7113 skillz to make it tablet ready… Oh wait, most of you dont have $20.00 to your name so $200.00 is way out of your reach…

sorry for the rant, but most of the losers here really piss me off. “Ipad sux!” from someone that has never touched one makes them a raging joke loser. I have touched one and used it for about 1 hour. It’s neat, but overpriced. JUST LIKE THIS JOO JOO pad. when the identical product has the same price comes out, it’s not impressive to anyone, yet the anti-apple-fanbois (typically dirt poor posers that wish they could afford apple hardware) shoot off their mouths.

Stuff it posers. This pad is crap, just like all the other ones that already exist and will ship over the next year or so.

“a screen boasting 1366×768 resolution”
If I had the money, this would be an instant purchase.

fartface,

Android is linux and it has a good touch interface. Also, i stand against apple for overcharging for stuff that dosnt work well and is intentionally locked down, not just cause i cant afford it. The complaints are about the price for a crippled device, not just cause they cant afford it. I think that the JooJoo has nice hardware, and hope that android will be running on it sometime soon. if that happens, ill buy it

it looks like the ipad

Where is the camera on this? It could be pretty good for skype. I know that 1 detail doesn’t justify $500 but I would get something like this over a netbook just for little crap like that if they cut $100-150 off the price tag.

ps. I can’t wait til those iPads start showing up on ebay, broken. A good screen would be a killer mouse alternative.. and the battery pack is PRIME for other projects.

DO NOT BUY JOOJOO!!!! It is a stolen product and we should not support thieves!!

Late last year Chandra Rathakrishnan completely screwed over his American partners and stole the crunchpad (now the JooJoo) from Michael Arrington & company. Check out techcrunch for the whole story.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/

props to Phil

Looks cool but so flawed.
1. Lacks a standard App store. This is a huge problem. Sure you can hack it but there is no easy way to add apps to it.
2. Lacks content. No real easy way to get content.
It does have Flash so you can watch Hulu and other sites like that which is a plus.
For the same price as an iPad you will get a machine that while more hackable offers less off the self functionality.
Too bad really because it could be so cool. Well if the hit the Surplus market I may get one to hack.

@onlywhenprovoked

Rushed? Non-standard hardware? It’s running an Atom (just like every netbook out there) and Nvidia Ion graphics – that’s as standard as it gets. That’s not “barely compatible” – did you even read the post?

Based only on the hardware, it shouldn’t be hard to install a real OS on there as long as there are drivers available.

@mark429

I’ll support anything that fucks over Michael Arrington. He’s one of the biggest self-serving douchebags of the tech industry.

Personally, I wished he got a worse deal out of it.

oh the junkjoo. 4gb solid state storage and an unconventional os? unless it has an intel atom then it’s really no better then a cell phone with a big screen. at least the ipad has enough memory to hold a few videos and already has good apps to make it communicate with your computer wirelessly

Having just thrown down money on two DROIDs i’m wondering how massivly sucky android would be on this for some basic things like opening the program window you’d have to drag your finger across the whole thing. yuck.

Wired did a story about it. I wish we could get someone to review it that doesn’t suck Steve Jobs off every 5 minutes though.

Not that I don’t totally believe them on this review, it’s just that they really pumped that iPad and never criticized a single little thing on it.

http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_joojoo_tablet

Bookmarked :-)