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Joojoo 3G tablet will appear within 3 months
TABLET UPSTART Fusion Garage plans to offer a 3G enabled version of its tablet, the Joojoo, within three months according to the firm's CEO, Chandra Rathakrishanan.
Talking to The INQUIRER, Rathakrishanan said that a 3G enabled Joojoo tablet will be available through mobile operators rather than directly from the firm. He also said that this may result in the device being cheaper than the £319 asking price for the WiFi only edition.
Although Rathakrishanan wouldn't be drawn on which mobile operators will be carrying the tablet, he was clear that, unlike Apple, Fusion Garage won't be taking a cut from the monthly bill. This is probably not all that surprising given that the firm doesn't wield the formidable clout of Apple. Nevertheless it does float the possibility of operators being able to offer the Joojoo for next to nothing and recouping the device cost through their high data tariffs.
Given that the Joojoo sports a USB socket and runs Linux underneath its browser interface, there is a pretty good chance that one of the many USB 3G dongles on the market will be usable with the Joojoo.
When asked if this is something that Fusion Garage would stop, Rathakrishanan said that his firm "wasn't there to cannibalise consumers" and that it won't stop such modifications or issue 'cease and desist' orders to those who offer modifications. Unsurprisingly, any such modifications to the operating system would, according to Rathakrishanan, void the one-year warranty on the device.
Rathakrishanan also confirmed that within the next 30 days the Joojoo operating system will recognise USB memory drives through its interface. When asked whether it could be used to load other operating systems on the tablet, Rathakrishanan said that there was nothing stopping users from doing so, though his firm would not support that but neither would the company prohibit it, though it would void the warranty.
The Joojoo was launched in the UK on 28 April with the WiFi only model costing £319. Rathakrishanan confirmed that orders placed now will arrive on 12 May.
All this talk of unrestricted modification to the device is in stark contrast to Apple's policy, which prefers to employ a more Orwellian approach to operating system management. µ
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Ok, so, average consumers obviously won't know how to even copy an alternate OS onto their USB stick, not to mention know how to then install it onto this thing. So, you pretty much got the genius tech gurus out there who would attempt something like that. Don't you think they'd be smart enough to first figure out how to make a backup image of the ROM before they created a dual boot or something so they could always just flash it back before needing to warranty replace it? Seems to me people who like to spend all day jailbreaking iPhones, tinkering with multiple OS's, and writing custom apps for the endless supply of electronic devices out there probably would have enough brains to pull that off and then release a utube video demonstrating how to do it for all the pimply tweens out there to be able to bring their 'A game' when they sneak their JooJoo in their bookbag to floss in front of their friends at school.
whats the big deal with these "tablets"? Can even one of them be used to change the channel on my TV??
If not, what is it for? Printing? And is a hub out of the question, then?
Linux copes...
Knowing that there are only 64 units (give or take) sold in the U.S, it will be crazy for anyone to buy this. The company probably won't be around for long and it's currently fighting lawsuit from TechCrunch.