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CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo
adeelarshad82 writes to tell us that Fusion Garage seems to be ignoring the drama surrounding the "CrunchPad" and is planning to launch their "JooJoo" tablet this Friday at midnight. Unfortunately, the device will be a long way from the imagined $200 price point, weighing in at a hefty $499. "The JooJoo comes in black and has a capacitive touch screen, enough graphic power to deliver full high-definition video, offline capabilities, and a 4GB solid-state drive, though 'most of the storage is done in the cloud,' Rathakrishnan said. He promised 5 hours of battery life. In a demo during the webcast, the device powered on in about 10 seconds, and showed icons for web-based services like Twitter, Hulu, CNN, and Gmail, though the JooJoo will not come pre-loaded with any apps, Rathakrishnan said. Scroll through them with your finger as you would on the iPhone. In terms of the ownership drama, Rathakrishnan said that TechCrunch editor Arrington has created an 'incomplete and distorted story.'"
"If you can sell a device with a slow-refreshing screen that only does 16 levels of grayscale and supports no applications except a document viewer and (maybe) a stripped-down Web browser for $260"
You forgot about the fact that the slow-refreshing screen uses basically no static power. The end result is that such devices have INCREDIBLE battery life.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
People who use the phrase "price point" instead of "price" need to be shot in the head.
Shoot this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_point
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Apple doesn't make anything that doesn't get them at least 30% margins.
Really? I've never found the screens to be "print-like." The contrast is kinda poor, for starters. And at 167ppi, though grayscale, the resolution doesn't seem to match that of a laser printer, yet alone professional printing presses.
My Nokia 770, on the other hand -- the predecessor of the aforementioned N810 -- has a backlit, full-color 4.25" screen at a whopping 225ppi. Text on this thing is razor-sharp. The battery life ain't great, but like I said: I don't really see the problem.
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It's not at all ambiguous. Midnight December 11th is 2009-12-11 00:00. This is clear because Midday December 11th is 2009-12-11 12:00. "Half past midnight" December 11th is 2009-12-11 00:30. There's no ambiguity at all.