Thanks to a slip of the fingers on Posterous (and Robert Scoble's serious Twitter addiction), new images of Michael Arrington's pet Internet-tablet project -- the
CrunchPad -- have shown up looking very,
very close to a finished product. As you can see in the gallery below, the (supposedly) $200, WiFi enabled pad has gotten dressed up in multiple colors and been shoved into some fairly handsome looking packaging. There's no telling if this means the device is any closer to a buy-able reality, but one thing is for sure: a microblog is no place for secrets.
[Via
Scoble's Twitterfeed,
Arab Crunch]
posted April 9th 2009 9:49PM
"Click and hold"?
LAME. No UI should be based on WAITING. Not only is this non-discoverable, but it's infuriating and wasteful. A delay-based UI guarantees that this device will purposefully waste your time.
Is your time worthless? Why would you pay money to a vendor that has so little regard for you?
I have a vista tablet and use hold to right click, it works very well. Just hold it in one place very briefly about a quarter of a second a circle will draw around the pen about a 1/2 second. A very easy operation less than a second is wasted, not as fast a a mouse but having a bezel button for right click on a touch screen would be more annoying to use. I built a custom wacom pen using a old cracked one and a plastic grip pen, I do not miss the side button I find the hold option easier since you can hold the pen any way you want.
Basically, this device boots into the browser (I've been reading the updates TechCrunch has sent out; they've been very open about the process) so tabs vs. windows is immaterial. Probably clicking on a link will take you straight to another tab.
This is not a PC.
It is a web tablet.
So in response to some other comments, it absolutely will not run anything except linux and a custom browser (at least, that what the word has been so far).
holy shhh!whoever puts this out on the market first will dominate in sales,especially here in usa.
guaranteed to be a success trust me mark my words ,save this email.,$200-300.,?insane...
Damn that looks amazing...I want one!
I want! But probably will wait for Tmobiles android powered tablet
I'll take 1 of 2. Asap.
Named after the sound you hear after accidentally leaving it on the living room floor...
No FCC filing, so push the date out a little
I would luv one in stainless steel :)
That's what she said.
"I would luv one in stainless steel"
Good thing you saved one character there. Are you on dial-up?
Lttrs ar prcious in this conomy, just trying to make my "e" last as long as possibl.
$200 my ass
Wow, my last escort didn't charge nearly that much.
Why do they need such a big packaging???
That's what she said.
Crunchgear updated with more info and pics.
According to CrunchGear has Intel Atom processor and a 12″ capacitative touchscreen
I have been dreaming of this thing since day 1. i hope they keep the USB port and add some support for my wireless usb dongle... mmm sexy!
imagine this thing running windows 7...it already flys on every netbook out there so this will make it affordable for anyone to have a tablet to carry around with them...reading the morning paper would never be better!
Who cares what OS runs on it? As long as it can handle Firefox, and Flash, it doesn't need to do a whole lot else really.
all this needs aesthetically is a little steampunk/ben heck love!
Ermm .. none of these are actually *on* or .. *working*. For all we know, this could just be a set of photo's of the prototypes and the prototype packaging.
So .. yawn. Wake me up when you've got a pic with something actually *on* the CrunchPad ..
MMM
For The Win...
Any chance it'll play video? It looks like the perfect device for watching tv on the elliptical.
It will have full flash functionality, so you'll be able to stream videos from the web, so yes. If you mean play downloaded video, a. there will be no apps except the browser and b. it won't have the drive space.
Landscape and portrait mode?
gimme gimme gimme, I want, I want, I want!