The CrunchPad drama continued Monday, with the chief of Fusion Garage calling Michael Arrington’s claim on the device “ludicrous” and introducing its own 12.1-inch tablet, which has been re-branded as the JooJoo.
Fusion Garage will start taking pre-orders for the $499 device on Friday at thejoojoo.com. Delivery is expected within 8 to 10 weeks, Chandra Rathakrishnan, Fusion Garage chief executive, said during a Monday webcast. The company is in talks with retail partners, but no announcements have been made, he said.
The JooJoo comes in black and has a capacitive touch screen, enough graphic power to deliver full high-definition video, offline capabilities, and a 4GB solid-state drive, though “most of the storage is done in the cloud,” Rathakrishnan said. He promised 5 hours of battery life.
In a demo during the webcast, the device powered on in about 10 seconds, and showed icons for web-based services like Twitter, Hulu, CNN, and Gmail, though the JooJoo will not come pre-loaded with any apps, Rathakrishnan said. Scroll through them with your finger as you would on the iPhone.
In terms of the ownership drama, Rathakrishnan said that TechCrunch editor Arrington has created an “incomplete and distorted story.”
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