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CrunchPad turns into JooJoo, doubles price, seems sketchy

We just finished watching the Fusion Garage press conference where they announced the CrunchPad JooJoo.  Besides not really showing it in action (a few seconds of stalled-stutter scrolling of a green screened device didn’t get your mouth watering?) the company seems a bit on the sketchy side, even if you don’t consider Michael Arrington’s legal threats a big deal. 

On that, most of the presentation was devoted to jabs at Arrington rather than wowing us with the technology.

The specs: 12-inch capacitive touch screen, 5 hour battery, $499 price tag, Wifi. 

We love the idea of a browser-only tablet and at $200-$300 might have taken a look, but at $500, it is a lot to risk on a company that may or may not be around next year and a product thats demo was as poor as we’ve seen.

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