When HP/Palm finally introduces it's Web OS based Tablet it's going to blow everyone away.

"The screen itself is a twisted nematic (TN) panel, meaning it doesn't have the impressive wide viewing angles of the Ipad's in-plane switching (IPS) display."

It's a privacy feature to prevent others from looking at your screen.

Come on this is a joke right? This guy can't be for real.

The pitch is that it's a web browser sandwiched inside a glass and metal case and apparently that's all that you should expect to use it for, even if you can, in fact, get at more. Upside, there is a ton of stuff that you can do with just that. They say.

It runs on Linux but you don't have to know what that is, which is, in a way, good...

Its battery life will be hampered by the power sucker, nVIDIA ION. I believe next JooJoo tablet will use Intel Moorestoen exclusively.

How many time must this publication write about this piece of crap? It this another sponsored piece or what? This is a terrible device, just read up on Engadget or Gizmondo. Furthermore, why would any sane person buy a buggy device that only sold 64 units from an unknown company who is being accused of theft of intellectual property by TechCrunch.

Or else I never get to read
Nick Farrell's novels!

Get back Joo Joo
Keep on gamin' in the UK

that there's some sort of prize for being wildly inconsistent and inaccurate? If there is then he's certainly in line for it.

Firstly he admits that the JooJoo software is pretty much beta quality, but dismisses this as trivial. What's the point in having a machine if the software is slow, buggy and hard to use. What pretty much differentiates systems these days is how well the software works and how easy it is to use. Unless you have a masochistic streak the JooJoo in it's current form is right out.

Secondly he fails to check on technical facts: the ION chipset doesn't hardware accelerate the older VP6 codec that flash used before H.264. nVidia are the people who say that, not Apple, and they created ION so they should know. See http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/purevideo.html. nVidia or JooJoo may have worked out how to use OpenCL to assist with the decode process, but that's not as efficient as a dedicated hardware processor.

Thirdly he ignores or glosses over virtually all the points that he listed as negatives when reviewing the iPad and says that the JooJoo is promising. (larger, heavier, 1/3rd of the battery life, lower spec screen and storage, all for the same price as the iPad. Not a problem as far as he's concerned).

Fourthly he ignores the fact that laptop screens (like the Macbook Pro) are only expected to be used in landscape mode. MEDIA viewers are expected to work in both portrait and landscape modes, and the JooJoo is decidedly sub-par in portrait mode.

@ jason wong

But what "apps" does it need? The Joojoo runs a real operating system (Ubuntu/netbuntu I read somewhere) so surely it has access to the linux repositories via the touch interface and software can simply be added? Otherwise what's the point of using a real OS instead of either a mobile phone OS or variation of a mobile phone OS (I'm looking at both Iphone/Ipad and Android here). To me that means there's a pre existing set of free "apps" that are tried and tested and can be downloaded via wi-fi (or 3G later)

I think the lack of apps is a big problem. In the short term, I expect Apple and Google's Droid will be the only players in the tablet space. MS's windows is not really suitable for a tablet and it will take time for them to make a version of Zune OS that is suitable.

I've heard the jojo's battery life is terribad ?