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CSL Group To Manufacture JooJoo Tablet aka Crunchpad

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The saga between Techcrunch’s Mike Arrington with Fusion Garage on CrunchPad, which is now known as Joojoo, apparently doesn’t stop Fusion Garage from pushing the tablet to mass production. Yesterday, Fusion Garage struck the deal with CSL Group (if you’re Malaysian, I’m pretty sure you have heard their brand before) to invest and manufacture JooJoo tablet. In return CSL Group will receive small percentage of income from the tablet sold all over the world.

The deal is significant for both companies in this very competitive market when major computer manufactures will soon jumping to this segment as well. For Fusion Garage, this is ending the speculation whether the Joojoo will actually going to mass production. It also realize their (and Mr Arrington as well) vision to have portable device with competitive price (initially targeted below $300) purely for greater web browsing experience.

For CSL Group, the decision can be seen as killing the bird with one stone. Looking back at the attention that the world has on Joojoo with coverage on renown blogs such as Engadget, Wired and Gizmodo, the deal has giving them free publicity about their company.

The most important part is the exposure to the world of technology behind the tablet. CSL Group only manufacture netbook so far, but now with Joojoo, they will have an additional product on their portpolio, a tablet, next gen product that everybody is taking nowadays.

For both companies, if Joojoo destined to be super hit gadget, multi millions profit will surely boost their image and earning, and probably we will see Joojoo 2nd gen and onward.

The success of this partnership will be tested when Joojoo’s first mass produced tablet come out by end February. The price is going to be determine success factor, especially Apple iPad has set the bar when it’s cheapest iPad priced at $499, same as Joojoo . Other than that, the quality, usability and support that Joojoo and CSL going to offer or from their partners will be crucial especially the main market is going to be the US.

The table is now open for pre-order from the US only at the moment and will be shipped in 8-10 weeks

via | press release

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Chrome Tablet Concept Previewed

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Now seems to be a tablet season where one tablet was announced after another.

After iPad launch last week, Chrome tablet concept is sensationally out  from nowhere yesterday, trying to ’steal’ the spotlight??. It sounds interesting,  but one person that going to fume about this development must be Steve Job. Google is after his latest innovation, again after iPhone, although I don’t think iPad itself is revolution rather than one piece of beautifully crafted device.

As you know, Chrome which started as Web Browser has fast transformed to Chromium OS . It’s early version was tested and able to run on netbook as demonstrated couple of months back. And now, Chromium OS has moved a step further to tablet platform, but.. unfortunately it still just a concept. Timing is important. Sounds like the release of this concept is kinda rushing, am I right??

The concept which was posted on Chromium Project is mostly demonstrating the UI concept. Among in show are different style of keypad position, the main menu screen, tab style and how multi touch is handled in tablet as shown on the video below.

Yes, it’s just that. Images that could be rendered overnight by experienced graphic designer.

Here is more images.

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iDola V2 VS iPad

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Apparently iDola, one of the tablet PC developed by MIMOS under Makcik PC (remember anyone) is still alive! Surprisingly it is now in it’s second version according to this news on last Jan 26th, when the first version is not even seen in market, well, actually is not going to, forever.

The first version is said not met the minimum requirement set by government, so basically it end up in ‘garbage’. So who was tasked to take the requirement at the first place??

Idola V2 is running on Jemapoh software (the OS i think) developed by Mimos. It has full fledge PC features such as 1GB Ram, 802.11 b/g/n WLAN,  Bluetooth and IPv6. The price is in the range of Rm900 to RM1000 depends on the number of orders.

Now the question is, who gonna use this tablet and for what purpose? There are varieties of netbook model on the market from different manufactures with very competitive price. Soon, the tablet market is going to be flooded with new model, as showcased by HP Slate, MSI and Apple iPad.

Call me skeptical, but I doubt that this tablet gonna be a better alternative to netbook/tablet when the price different is small.

How about warranty and parts? How can we guarantee that the ecosystem of this product will remain for a long time? How much cost required to use iDola, and after sometime that iDola deem not suitable for running an operation or not long lasting, how much cost required to replace it?

I may sound bashing our very own product, but don’t get me wrong. Yes, I do support it, if it is justifiable. I have written about Mak Cik PC couple of  times before, posted images about iDola, Jen-II in the past, before ordered to take it down later on due to P&C (private & confidential). You have paraded this product around the world, and now you call it P&C??

Makcik PC project where iDola is based on, has been established since 2007. That’s 3 years back. An announcement about his project made news headlines  at that time. But sadly, the product is nowhere to be seen until now.

In contrast, Apple which had just released it’s own tablet called iPad (2 days after iDola V2 release, coincident right?) is so secretive about iPad. The result is an awesome product, even without telling the world what you’re doing.

Apple, backed with bilion dollars of capital and research grant, thousands of engineers and scientist is not without doubt can build the killer product meant for everyone. Not to doubt MIMOS  ability to develop consumer product that can compete with these long established big players, but I feel that MIMOS should just focus what it is best… R&D.

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Apple Tablet is called iPad

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Months long rumors are finally over and here is one of the most anticipated device of the year, the true Apple Tablet… called iPad, kinda odd name though. Thinking of it as oversize iPhone, with 1024 x 768 screen resolution and kinda weighty.

Ipad receive mix reaction by readers at engadget and gizmodo who anticipate the iPad to be revolutionary product, but it turn out.. not really up to what is expected. The rant mostly due to the lack of camera, flash support, multitasking and  on screen typing.

According to apple “iPad will be available in late March worldwide for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model, $699 (US) for the 64GB model. The Wi-Fi + 3G models of iPad will be available in April in the US and selected countries for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model. iPad will be sold in the US through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. International pricing and worldwide availability will be announced at a later date. iBookstore will be available in the US at launch”

So basically, iPad comes with 2 flavor, with Wifi model and with 3G model, plus the various size 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. Count that together, you have six model to choose from.

Ipad is running on iPhone OS latest version, V 3.2.  In addition to iTune, App Store just like an iPhone, it comes with iBookStore as well.

Powering iPad is custom 1Ghz Apple A4 chip , and ARM family processor which some said is equivalent with Snapdragon or Tegra found in Nexus One or HTC HD2. The battery can lasted for 10 hours and 1 month standy.

For us in Malaysia, we still in the dark how iPad is going be distributed here. I’m hoping that it will be sold via Apple Malaysia Store for both model with Wifi/3G version although some that prefer to have it with 3G data could get it from carrier.

At the mean time, check the hand-on video below from engadget, as well as iPad official video which showcase the iPad’s feature in very interesting ways. Or Visit Ipad page.

Hands-on Video (Engadget)

Apple iPad Official Video

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