{"id":2346,"date":"2009-12-07T08:24:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2009-12-07T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:47:29","slug":"first-look-at-the-crunchpad-now-joojoo-tabletwars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/first-look-at-the-crunchpad-now-joojoo-tabletwars\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at the CrunchPad, Now JooJoo #TabletWars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image from Engadget<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes, as of 9:30 am PST, we have entered the net tablet war.\u00a0 And who knew the first battle would be an internal one?\u00a0 As I’m sure you have already heard, Arrington’s idea of a simple, cheap couch computer, christened the ‘CrunchPad’, now called the JooJoo was shown to the press in SF and via video conference.\u00a0 I was not there. \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 However, I really did not need to be, I watched the comment stream on CNET and heard what I needed to hear.<\/p>\n

I did not think, we perhaps with exception to Arrington, that it would be a $200 device.\u00a0 I was guessing at $550 with $400 as the cheapest once mass production kicks in and I was not that far off from the announced $499.\u00a0 The specs are as we heard; 12inch screen, usb, stripped down embedded Unix running HTML5.\u00a0 (I thought it would have been Linux).\u00a0 The green tint is a camera issue.\u00a0 I’ll look for a better image later.<\/p>\n

Here are more specs from the engadget live blog..<\/p>\n

12.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, 4GB SSD, accelerometer, “enough graphic power to deliver full HD video.”<\/p>\n

So the first victim is the name ‘CrunchPad’, cant imagine they will go forward with it.\u00a0 And I will also expect this device to end up in someone elses hands since Arrington will not leave these guys alone.. from a legal point of view, although so far, no suits have been pressed forward. (Pun intended).<\/p>\n

So, civil war or not… the Great Tablet War… Oh, its on!<\/p>\n

BTW, I love this line from the live blog..<\/p>\n

So all TechCrunch contributed is marketing? “It depends on what you define as marketing. Michael has helped us talk about what a tablet can do, but so have many others. We can take this to market without TechCrunch… TechCrunch is just a blog.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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