JooJoo tablet offered to Brits Fusion Garage has made its 12in Atom-based tablet, the JooJoo, available to buyers outside the US. UK residents can now order the large iPad alternative for £319 plus £15 postage and packing - a grand total of £334, which is roughly what the most basic 9in iPad is expected to retail for. Fusion Garage JooJoo The JooJoo: …
I'm sorry, where did you get car battery from?
No sign of a car battery here:
https://thejoojoo.com/sites/accessories
I'm almost tempted to stick one on my xmas list so I don't have to lug my 12.1" laptop around (which has a knackered battery so does need a car battery, along with car attached to it and an inverter to power it on the move).
Rob
Sounds excellent. If the screen's nice and responsive to a decent number of simultaneous touches, I'd happily pay 300 notes for one of these. The kicker is being able to develop for it - I need to run the code of my choice on my own device. Sounds like a remarkably innovative feature for a computer.
"There are just so many things we wish Fusion Garage did differently with the JooJoo. Even putting aside the fact that Apple's $499 iPad brings more to the table than just web browsing, the JooJoo is less portable, has a worse (if larger) screen, is unintuitive to use, and ships with half-baked software."
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-review/
It is a testament to the crushing power of Apple marketing that only 64 JooJoos have been sold when, as the article points out, it has a much larger screen than the million-selling iPad. It also plays Flash, unlike the iPad.
What is wrong with people, I wonder, that they always fall for Apple's hype when such obviously better values exist?
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"CruchPad" made me laugh, though, so thanks for that.
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