Fusion Garage tablet had its ups and downs along its uncertain birth, from delays, unclear ownership rights and partnerships. When it finally arrived on the market it didn’t got very favorable reviews, some from objective and some subjective reasons or they were excessively compared with a not web-only tables that are already on the market.
Find out more about JooJoo’s past from this article where a made things more clear: JooJoo 12.1 inch Tablet is a tablet that can play HD Flash content out of the box, thanks to the integrated Nvidia Ion graphics. The reason behind the tablet is that most people just use a netbook or a laptop for web browsing, nothing more, and I think that JooJoo does that very well.
There have been many flaws reported with the tablet because is using a browser-like Linux that was developed from scratch. That is a titanic work and some said it would better have used Chrome or Android. Also the use of Nvidia Ion graphics isn’t justified because instead it could’ve used Intel Atom N450 paired up with Broadcom Crystal HD or an ARM processor like Nvidia Tegra 2, this would’ve increased the battery life without diminishing video performance.
The tablet was first intend for a sub $200 price tag, but ended up costing more than twice as much. This magical device (“joujou” stands for African magical device hence its name) has arrived in Europe and can be purchased from the official website for 359Euro (+15Euro for shipping).
JooJoo tablet specifications summary:
- Display: 12.1 inch widescreen, multitouch capacitive, 1366×768 resolution, fingerprint-resistant coating
- Processor: Intel Atom N270 at 1.6 GHz
- Chipset: Intel 945GSE Express (which has a high energy consumption compared with its successors)
- Graphics: Nvidia Ion graphics
- Memory: 1 GB of RAM
- Storage: 4GB SSD
- Wireless: WLAN 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR
- Connectors: USB2.0 port
- Battery: 3-cell for up to 5 hours of autonomy (but accordingly to some reviews it can last for only half the time)
- Operating System: custom Linux web browser based
- Dimensions: 325 x 198 x 12.7~17.8 mm
- Weight: 1.08kg
- Colors: Available in Gold and Black
- Features: Light sensor and accelerometer
Fusion Garage is aware of the JooJoo’s weaknesses and is promising to release a weekly update to address the issues. On the long term it hopes to change the overall negative opinions that formed about the tablet. The upcoming firmware update that will come soon will add support for full screen HD video playback.
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