Grid 10, the tablet was never JooJoo

Does anyone remember already JooJoo ? It was the result of a failed experiment CrunchPad. It was the summer of 2008 when Michael Arrington, TechCrunch blogger and founder, a visionary startup, as would verify only two years later, tired that neither Apple nor any other company decided to take a tablet on the market (iPhone rumors and were strong at that time) began to develop the manufacture of a tablet with an Internet connection only, no hard drive, based on Linux and that was sustained based webapps. But Fusion Garage, chosen to carry out the project as already brought a similar hand, ended up making it a prank and CrunchPad project died, becoming east in JooJoo . Shortly after the iPhone came with features that gave many turns (double drums, app store) and turning it into a failed experiment that although official figures were never, I reckon that did not sell more than a few thousand. A failure in the making.

Long time since the network was a viral campaign, or rather attempt the same, around a mysterious gadget called the TABC, which it was even rumored that it was a tablet from Nokia was going to be released shortly. In reality, as we discovered today, TABC is just a resurgence from the ashes of that creator of JooJoo FusionGarage has recently returned to the scene by presenting a new model of its own, the grid 10 . And what's amazing? Well apart from having behind all this little story I just told you, that has a proprietary operating system called Grid, which is based on the Linux kernel. Of course, fortunately, although there is a call to develop applications for the tablet support any application Android , a good measure if the device would not become another failure instant.

It has the highest resolution of the tablet market with 1366 x 769 pixels and fitting Nvidia Tegra 2, among other curiosities is the fact that despite being based on Android and Google use part of the ecosystem can dispense with own browser and especially the default search engine is Bing brings, not the big G. A movement is rather strange that while it is perfectly valid; Microsoft is also a very good browser. I do not know why, but after having taken a look at the presentation I have a feeling that most of the grid 10 itself is a statement of intent against Android (and that is ironically based on it), during the presentation, TABC's CEO, Chandra Rathakrishnan has been said that "Android is not popular," a full-fledged WTF. Ironically, while saying these words running across the network and which probably will become the technology news of the year, the purchase of Motorola by Google , it must have been pretty funny face when CEO has fallen from stage.

It will cost $ 499 in its only $ 599 WiFi and the 3G version, the same price that keeps the iPhone and some competing models with Honeycomb, is now to book on Amazon and will be released in November. Nobody can say for sure what this will do to those FusionGarage / TABC with this new project is put on the table, one more, a new operating system, Grid, but when you consider how bad it took him to JooJoo and the tablet itself has no distinctive role that competition significantly uncheck I suspect that it will hit the sales, and very strong too.

A friend of mine once told me he wanted a JooJoo, puzzled when asked why would he want such a mess, I said if I did not realize that this gadget was a rarity, an object that was sold so little, there so few units and all that came at a crucial moment in history (the appearance of the tablets in the consumer technology), probably within a few years will be a real collector's item with a good value on eBay. 'A safe investment' I said with irony Is that the future that holds the Grid10?

Grid 10, the tablet JooJoo was never written in ALT1040 August 15, 2011 by Carlos Rebato
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