JooJoo Maker Is Back With a New Tablet

itwbennett writes "I bet you forgot all about the JooJoo, the tablet that started life as CrunchPad and sparked a bitter fight between Michael Arrington and Fusion Garage. Well, Fusion hasn't forgotten and 'they are back in the news with a new line of products,' writes blogger Peter Smith. 'The Grid4 is a smartphone and the Grid10 is a tablet, both of them running the new GridOS, a custom OS built on the Android [kernel],' says Smith. Fusion calls GridOS 'stunning, smart, social and transportable,' whatever that may mean."

Comments

Hey, do you remember JooJoo?

[Anonymous Coward]

(No)
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Advertisement?

[wiedzmin]

What is this, a paid advertisement? How do I place my obscure product on Slashdot front page?

Re:Advertisement?

[WrongSizeGlass]

What is this, a paid advertisement? How do I place my obscure product on Slashdot front page?

Just promise something great, don't deliver it after a year and then promise something else. I'm guessing vaporwareforvaporware.com was already taken so they posted to /. instead.

Re:Advertisement?

[localman57]

What is this, a paid advertisement? How do I place my obscure product on Slashdot front page?

I don't know about obscure products, but books are pretty easy. Cut and paste the documentation from a product into Word, take a shitload of screen shots, paste those in too, then write the whole thing to a .pdf, and send it to Packt Publishing. Then do a book review on your own book. Spell and grammar check is optional. http://books.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1342248/Book-Review-Getting-Started-With-Audacity-13

kernal

[anjilslaire]

It's going to be the best ever since its on a kernal. Regular android only has a kernel

Re:kernal

[GungaDan]

Personally I'm holding out for the Colonel. Extra fuckin' crispy, too.

Re:No website

[WrongSizeGlass]

Now it says "Blog coming soon", but the HTML has "Redevelopment in progress." & "Vendors to contact home office." in comments.

Let's hope GridOS doesn't run on HTML or these guys won't get out of the starting gate.

Got a couple winners here

[Osgeld]

"I bet you forgot all about the JooJoo"

yea no shit, maybe cause it was vaporware wrapped up with these two douches battling each other in court, why the fuck would I even make an effort to remember this garbage?

Grid making portable computers, gee fuckwads couldn't come up with your own name? I know the JOO JOO took decades of market analysis to express exactly the features of this wonderful product but come on it couldn't have killed you that bad.

I think I can contain my enthusiasm

[sirwired]

The preliminary reviews of this product report it as extremely unpolished for something supposedly shipping in just a few weeks. Given their previous track record, I'm shocked these guys still have any money left to waste.

Re:I think I can contain my enthusiasm

[gerardrj]

Why read the reviews, just watch any of the videos on the website. Dummy content, unable to deal with album art or video previews, everything in the videos looks like a placeholder.

The hi-res screen is the only thing this tablet seems to have going for it, and to get the res, you have to deal with a 16:9 device which most people who've held one say is awkward. There's no other object we hold on a daily basis that is near the 16:9 aspect ratio.The closest is legal sized paper, and look at how popular that is compared to standard letter paper in the US. Books, newspaper, bills, magazines, all closer to 4:3 ratio of old TV and what the iPad uses.

Re:only two of the 40 tablets out there are sellin

[WrongSizeGlass]

only two of the 40 tablets out there are selling

Very true, but with sales of '0' this new tablet will be tied for 3rd or 4th on the Android Tablet Sales Charts.