CrunchPad Lives On, Through A Federal Lawsuite Against JooJoo (Fusion Garage).

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With ups and downs for more than one and half years, raising our hopes on a tablet that could have been useful, now have reached a new level, a federal lawsuite.
Fusion Garage dropped TechCrunch from the deal that appeared to be a nice venture and went on to promote JooJoo for $500. Even though I liked the CrunchPad and the idea, I would not have paid $500 for JooJoo. But now the chances are even slimmer.
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JooJoo By FusionGarage Is The New CrunchPad

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Emerging from the deadpool, the Crunchpad has got a new name, JooJoo! and is slated to be released on 11th Dec 2009. (Yes we are looking forward to it)
Gizmodo did a hands on and from their account, the platforms seem to be solid as far as solid for plastic go and the tablet now has a 12" screen that can do 1080P! It also comes with a headphone jack, a microphone jack, a built-in webcam at 1.3 megapixels, a charging port and a USB slot.
The device is powered by an Intel Atom with graphics chip Gizmodo suspects to be a Nvidia ION.
Oh by the way it is not only the name that changed, the pad is going to be somewhere around $500!
JooJoo via Gizmodo

CrunchPad Joins The DeadPool

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Techcrunch (Micheal Arrington) has informed us that the much awaited CrunchPad, tablet computer is dead. It was slated to have been demoed on November 20th. I was actually waiting for it, with cash in my hand. Because one thing I like the concept and secondly, it was a collective bay area effort, where I live.
I even defended Arrington and the team that the crunchpad was vaporware, only last week. We needed the pad for a project that is under development at the moment. It is a sad tale of greed, jealousy and miscommunication that led to the following from one of the development team, but be aware, there is always, two sides to the coin.

We still acknowledge that Arrington and TechCrunch bring some value to your business endeavor…If he agrees to our terms, we would have Arrington assume the role of visionary/evangelist/marketing head and Fusion Garage would acquire the rights to use the Crunchpad brand and name. Personally, I don’t think the name is all that important but you seem to be somewhat attached to the name

said an email Arrington got from Chandra Rathakrishnan of fusiongarage. Well the crunchpad has gone to the deadpool but there might be a bunch of lawsuits.
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CrunchPad, Web Tablet Spy Shots!

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People at APC (why?) got the scope on the new CrunchPad from Arlington, TechCrunch et al. As it was discussed before, the Web Tablet seem to be what intented to be, a web surfing, music and video streaming device.
“This machine isn’t for data entry.” Arrington stresses. “The virtual keyboard will make data entry a pain other than for entering credentials, quick searches and maybe light emails. But it is for reading emails and the news, watching videos on Hulu, YouTube, etc., listening to streaming music ... and doing video chat.” “The idea is to turn it on, bypass any desktop interface and go directly to Firefox running in a modified Kiosk mode that effectively turns the browser into the operating system for the device. Add Gears for offline syncing of Google Docs, email, etc., and Skype for communication and you have a machine that will be almost as useful as a desktop but cheaper and more portable than any laptop or tablet PC.” quiped the boss.

The price has gone up from Arrington’s initial target of US$200 to more realistic US$300, but I am sure there will be enough buyers, you got one here, may be two!.

read more and have a look at the spy shots here!

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