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CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the long-way-from-$200 dept.

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.'"

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  1. There's a device that's going to annihilate it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The HitlerHitler

  2. Where I stopped reading... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...though 'most of the storage is done in the cloud...

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    1. Re:Where I stopped reading... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I stopped at the new name...."JooJoo" I'm guessing this guy doesn't have much of an understanding at least of how naming should be done for the US. JooJoo sounds too...well, foofoo/gay.....

      No, it doesn't. It sounds like bad luck, or some kind of insult towards Jewish people. Both seem like a bad idea.

      Hell, that is about as bad as that company "Wang" a couple of decades ago. Did they not have any idea of the connotations of "wang" in the US?

      You know, Mr. Wang probably didn't think it was a bad idea to name his company after himself.

    2. Re:Where I stopped reading... by dreamer.redeemer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Exactly what I thought... 'sure, they'll steal a whole product without a moment's hesitation, but I'm sure my data will be perfectly private and safe with them."

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    3. Re:Where I stopped reading... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wait a minute. I'm a manager, and I've been reading a lot of case studies and watching a lot of webcasts about The Cloud. Based on all of this glorious marketing literature, I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.

      The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud. I don't know about you, but that sounds damn secure to me! Some Clouds even use SSL and HTTP. That's rock solid in my book.

      And don't forget that you have to use Web Services to access The Cloud. Nothing is more secure than SOA and Web Services, with the exception of perhaps SaaS. But I think that Cloud Services 2.0 will combine the tiers into an MVC-compliant stack that uses SaaS to increase the security and partitioning of the data.

      My main concern isn't with the security of The Cloud, but rather with getting my Indian team to learn all about it so we can deploy some first-generation The Cloud applications and Web Services to provide the ultimate platform upon which we can layer our business intelligence and reporting, because there are still a few verticals that we need to leverage before we can move to The Cloud 2.0.

  3. Price by teslafreak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At $200 I would be all over this (even though it sounds like it was bred from a bit of dirty business dealing). For $499, I would rather buy a laptop and have the keyboard.

    1. Re:Price by rho · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Unless Apple makes one, then a lot of folks will think $500 is just right.

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  4. Re:Retarded Name by KnownIssues · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was better than the other name they threw around in brainstorming sessions--the NigNig.

  5. Re:JooJoo is the Cantonese pronounciation of... by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yahoo! Answers agrees with you. Maybe it's not so bad after all. Announcing the Penis Pad (formerly Crunch Pad)! It's touch sensitive!