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We have collected 3 reviews of the Fusion Garage JooJoo. Experts rate Fusion Garage JooJoo 3.7/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Fusion Garage JooJoo and Fusion Garage Touch Pad.
Without the iPad, the JooJoo would have had a shot. When it was first announced, Apple wasn't close to confirming the existence of a tablet. The slates already on the market were both overpriced and terrible. Netbooks were popular, but far from comfortable. The idea behind the JooJoo, originally named the Crunchpad (and the subject of some very tedious legal mudslinging that we're not going to go into here), was for a low-cost tablet that would give you access to the web from your lap. And that's what it does. There are no apps, except for web-based ones. There's no pretence at it being a dedicated computer. It really is just the web on your lap. Unfortunately, the JooJoo is yet another demonstration of just how good Apple is at making kit. While it's far from unusable, it is clunky. It's slow. It feels cheap, unfinished and unpolished, and it doesn't come in at a low enough price to justify any of it. The problems start as soon as you get your hands on it. The JooJoo is bigger than the iPad, and it has a wider screen, but it's much less comfortable to hold. The power button requires a fingernail or a pin to press properly.
In spite of a string of troublesome delays (see insert), the JooJoo was finally launched on 12 May 2010, a good two weeks before the iPad. The JooJoo has now finally landed in our offices and has been put through its paces in our test lab. Regular readers of DigitalVersus will no doubt have already come across our adventures with Fusion Garage's touch-screen tablet in the JooJoo Diaries. You may therefore already have some idea of what the product's like and whether it's worth the investment. The Singapore-based manufacturer's tablet is being marketed as a touch-screen '', and that means all web too thanks to integrated Flash compatibility. It runs a Linux-based operating system that's been optimised for hands-on navigation and has a 4 GB internal memory plus a webcam, but no SD card reader. Currently, the tablet is only available to buy on the JooJoo website, and on top of the £319 you pay for the tablet, you'll have to fork out an extra £15 for shipping. What they don't tell you, though, is that there's an additional £62 to pay in customs duty. That pushes the total cost of buying a JooJoo up to £396. Is it worth it? Let's take a look.
Skeptics balked when Apple announced that pricing for the iPad - a touch-screen tablet with a built-in browser and scores of apps for everything from productivity to e-book reading to gaming - would start at $499 (for 16GB). That's a lot of coin for a not-quite-computer. Now Fusion Garage's JooJoo, ne Crunchpad, is finally here, and it, too, starts at $499 (direct). But it only offers only 4GB of storage (well, sort of - more on that later), has no apps, and is little more than a touch-screen-based Web browser with bookmarked icons. The inclusion of Flash support in the browser is one clear advantage over Apple's iPad ($699, ), but it is nevertheless a one-dimensional device. No one wants to pick on the little guy, but the JooJoo is overpriced, doesn't do very much, and doesn't do anything particularly well. Measuring 7.8 by 12.8 by 0.7 inches (HWD) and weighing in at a portly 2.4 pounds, the JooJoo really needs a lap or a desktop to rest on - this is not a handheld device. Its bright, good-looking 12.1-inch multi-touch capacitive wide screen features 1,366-by-768-pixel resolution, and like the iPad, it's a serious fingerprint magnet. Unlike the iPad, it comes with a cleaning cloth to wipe the screen down.