JooJoo tablet now shipping, should greet US consumers on March 29th
By Darren Murph 
posted March 25th 2010 11:28AM
posted March 25th 2010 11:28AM
JOOJOO TABLET NOW SHIPPING
SINGAPORE, March 25, 2010 – Fusion Garage announced that its category-creating joojoo Internet tablet has begun shipping from the factory today. joojoo devices are now on their way to U.S. customers who pre-ordered them. Devices should be received by Monday, March 29.
New joojoo orders can be placed at https://thejoojoo.com/store at a cost of $499 USD. With its easy to use user interface, joojoo allows users to tap into Internet applications, news, music, high definition video, social media and Web services. The device boasts the largest capacitive touch screen of any device on the market, measuring 12.1 inches in length. joojoo is Flash 10.1 and Java compliant and comes equipped with a built-in, rechargeable lithium-polymer battery.
For more information, please visit www.thejoojoo.com.
About joojoo
joojoo, officially introduced in December 2009, is the category-creating Web tablet that provides near instantaneous Internet access and the best online experience. The African word "joujou" means magical object and Fusion Garage's joojoo brings users into an online world where everything on the Internet is just a single touch away. Powered by Fusion Garage's innovative browser-based operating system, joojoo enables users to quickly and easily tap into Internet applications, news, music, high definition video, social media and Web services. joojoo has revolutionary hardware, including the largest capacitive touch screen of any device on the market – 12.1 inches –providing full screen content viewing. Its ultra-portable, ultra-thin design offers the best Internet experience anywhere – on the couch or on the go, standing or sitting. joojoo's gesture-based user interface allows easy transitions between Web sites and turns pages in a digital publication via the movement of a finger. A full-size touch keyboard appears when users need it, and disappears when viewing content or paging through digital content. joojoo is available directly from Fusion Garage at www.thejoojoo.com.
About Fusion Garage
Fusion Garage enables the best Internet experience through innovative software and hardware devices. Founded in 2008, Fusion Garage's core browser-based operating system provides near instantaneous Internet access and has spurred the development of an entirely new category of consumer electronics devices dedicated to online usage. Fusion Garage is based in Singapore and is privately funded.
Startup vs behemoth, I gotta feel for these guys.
@Nitesh They could have made things a lot easier on themselves by going with Android and riding that wave. Not to mention working on that battery life.
@Nitesh
I feel for them too. I agree android might have been a better route so they can get all those apps on their platform.
@PrinceAli I always thought the name Joo Joo spelled their death
@Dale P Not really, you think all the hundreds of Android tablets announced over the last couple of months will have a better chance just because they're all Android? Having their own system might help differentiate could be an advantage over the Androids...
Gotta see some reviews first b4 scoring.
@Imran I am not sure why anyone would feel sorry for Fusion Garage after the crap they pulled putting this together, turning on their development partner, etc. I wouldn't by from them simply for the fact that if something goes wrong in a big way with this product they will just close up shop and open up under a new name. This company can't be trusted.
@powerpuff girls MoJoJoJo!!!!!!!
Glad to know that am not the only person who takes "sick days" for the all the wrong reasons. :)
@Nitesh
"Startup vs behemoth"...come on, Arrington's not THAT fat
@btblomberg
my thoughts exactly. Even though im interested in the product, the "business" thats occured since the crunchpad days really makes me not trust them. Plus that chandra guy always looks so "shifty" in he's youtune videos.
@Imran Unfortunately, when you're an unknown company with unknown, unproven software and a checkered history before you even offer anything for sale, it's an uphill battle. Having a well-liked OS would help their cause.
@sweetelectro Why? Joo Joo is Voo Doo for: "Magic and Revolutionary"
@Dale P Although I prefer android for my tablet, I don't see a reason why chrome OS should be a bad choice. It's perfect for this kind of devices. The choice for atom instead of ARM however...
@Atkins If you think it's 'just a browser', grab any browser out there and try to boot from it.
It's a lightweight OS with the GUI of a browser, it's much more than 'just a browser.
@btblomberg
Who said anything about feeling sorry for them?! No one would buy a product just because they feel sorry for a company otherwise Palm and Motorola would never have had the dip they did!
@Nitesh Love it, when I heard that this tablet will have flash-capability, I was sure this will be awaited by the netizens, not saying its perfect, but I think there's a lot of improvement here. First: http://bit.ly/the-who-tablet-impressions
Tablets were sooooooooooo winter 2009...
I'll believe it when I see it.
Gimmie gimmie gimmie!
$500 for something that can only browse the web?
At least you get the full web.
@Atkins
It's better than paying $500 for a tablet that doesn't have flash.
@eDan I'm pretty sure it just don't useful to browse the WEB. Every Platform has its New-Bee days. They just need to get more development to be done to stay in the business.
Good luck.. see you in near future if you do well, defiantly not going for Ipad
@Atkins Or $500 cumulatively to purchases apps/games for a certain $500 tablet that would have most likely been free if said tablet had Flash support.
@Atkins That makes Fart nosies...lol
No thanks
@filjosh I'd rather listen to farts than your uninformed viewpoints.
@eDan : What do you mean? It has an atom processor and ion graphics, install win7 and do what you like on it.
@eDan "$500": Same price as the cheapest iPad. Its the early adopter's going rate.
"Only browse the web": First, they've announced you can play video off-line. Second, how is this different from the Chrome OS? Its a cloud device. The're just trying to stay 1/2 a step ahead of Google.
There are valid complaints but I don't see either of these as particularly negative.
@One Love Install Win7 on it? I didn't think you could do that on this system?
@filjosh
I have 87 apps for my iPhone, the vast majority complex games. I've paid a grand total of $4.96 for them, thanks almost exclusively to simply waiting until good apps go free on special, and to the large community of people who simply release really cool stuff completely free (some ad supported).
For every flash dev who makes an app to use free on the web, there's one doing the exact same thing on the iPhone OS platform, and there those apps can use high res 3D, accelerometer controls, and multitouch.
Plus, with announcements today and all last week, it looks like if you want video, you're choice is H.264. Flash can be added to the Pad if they really want it, h.264 encoding can not be added to your cheap-ass chipsets with GMA video.
@Gamecheater You are so ignorant
@Gamecheater F flash, that's soooo 2005
@eDan
Let's see, do I want a device with 140,000 third party apps and 10 hours of battery life, or the one with zero apps and 5 hours?
Not a hard decision.
@Martin C hahahahaah
@grahamj Let's see, do I want the device that doesn't need apps to do what I want it to do or the one with 140.000 apps so I can add functionality... but not ALL the functionality because steve jobs likes to censor the appstore?
Oh and in terms of battery: there are tablets that are going to outperform the device with 140.000 apps. ARM based of course, I'm not talking about atom-based devices that go 'up to' 12 hours specified by the manufacturer.
@Atkins I did, in fact I only had free apps on my 3GS. I never found anything that was worth it to buy over the free version. If the app had ads that were too intrusive, I removed the app and found something else. As for games, very few decent ones that were free and I didn't feel the need to pay $1-$5 for an app store version or clone of a web flash game. $500 may be a bit exaggerated, but the lack of flash support by Apple is still a thinly veiled cash grab through the app store.
@kstagg It has standard USB ports and standard netbook internals. Your biggest problem is going to be finding a driver for the touch screen.
@zelannii Where this love goes when the article is about Ipad, I see all ppl pointing out bad things about ipad, but when it is about Joo Joo somehow the love comes alive.
Good for you... anyway I'm not interested in both joo joo or ipad (in general underpowered devices). Enjoy :)
@zelannii
After reading all these comments I'm wondering if I'm the only person tired of hearing about "apps" whenever someone tries to compare an Iphone/Ipad to some new device?
Honestly, who cares if apple has 150,000 apps [149,000 of which do nothing but mimic a pair of dice when you shake it, or something similarly useless]? If you had a real OS (see "linux", any common distro) on it you wouldn't have to wait for someone else to approve functionality. If I bought a[n] [actual] computer only to discover the applications were limited to what the manufacturer deemed "acceptable" or "appropriate" I believe my reaction would be similar to when I discovered that the Iphone actually has ads IN the applications; "What the FUCK?"
When I need an app for my PC OR my Touch Pro 2, all I do is go on google and search for a free one made by people (see xda-developers) less concerned about making money off of ignorant fanboys (see Iphone developers) and more concerned with getting stuff done.
That said, unless theres a way for me to boot ubuntu or win 7 on this then I can't see this being much better then an Ipad.
@Caliber68 Surely this article is about the JooJoo and not the iPad. It seems as though everyone has been brainwashed into auomayically comparing every tablet with the iPad. Why is this so? Is this the sign of Apple creating yet another benchmark device, leaving the rest to play catch-up, pick up the crumbs, and start adding non-essential features like Flash support, multi USB ports, 15mpixel camera, HD video out, RS232 port, parallel printer port, etc. etc.
Rather than complain about the restrictions in the iPad, why don't you simply buy the JooJoo and live happily ever after. Or better still, wait for the HP tablet, which no real person has seen or touched.
@MaTdg
I guess that's fair if you have very limited needs. Personally if I'm going to drop $500 on a tablet I'd like it do do more than just browse and play media. On my phone I do things like GPS nav, media center remote, VNC, Skype, Google Earth, photo and video editing, speech dictation and translation, WiFi routing, Shazam, FTP and 28 Mpolys per second gaming. I look forward to doing those things on a tablet, too.
@Caliber68
Ffor the iPhone or iPad you don't either since there are already 150,000 ready to go. The difference is they're actually designed for the form factor and things like multitouch. Poking at tiny dropdown menus and dragging windows around isn't my idea of a good mobile UX.
They need to cut the price to have any sort of impact.
@Sharuk Frankly, it is not even an issue of pricing.
Real eager to read some hands-on reviews.
Do you guys think this will do well? with all the marketing and hype of that under whelming iPad?
also these guys are up with some stiff competition with the HP slate and the courier round the corner...
@dimithra
I'm waiting on the Courier too, but it's not competition to these devices. It's an entirely different market.
@Atkins Referring to the Microsoft courier..
@dimithra
"and the courier round the corner..."
That's likely to be quite a long corner and, certainly, I wouldn't bother waiting for it. The likelihood that we see the Courier this calendar year is pretty low. The HP Slate, however, ought to be out soon before it disappears into tech obscurity shortly afterwards.