JooJoo - nice but closed system?
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:43 pm
Hi,
Estimated price: $499
The JooJoo Web slate is based around a 12.1-inch diagonal 720p capacitive touch screen. The specs include: 1366x768-pixel resolution, a built-in camera, mic, and speakers, one USB port, and a card slot. There's 4GB of cache memory.
The hardware is slim and pleasing to hold. The screen is gorgeous, and huge, and the plastic back is gently curved. The unit is very slim, thinner than a MacBook Air. There are no buttons on the device, save the single power switch.
The JooJoo runs a proprietary Linux-based operating system whose only purpose is to run the device's browser, based on Webkit but again a custom job by the developer. The browser supports Flash and other standard HTML extensions, but it won't run non-Web apps. No Skype for you.
Orderable starting Friday on: https://thejoojoo.com/
Video:
For Home Automation: Browser based which is not fast, no real-time updates (?) and requires a lot of skills to make it look good. It does support flash but we don't have an easy way to make great GUI's using flash and HomeSeer. IF it only would run some kind of XP
Estimated price: $499
The JooJoo Web slate is based around a 12.1-inch diagonal 720p capacitive touch screen. The specs include: 1366x768-pixel resolution, a built-in camera, mic, and speakers, one USB port, and a card slot. There's 4GB of cache memory.
The hardware is slim and pleasing to hold. The screen is gorgeous, and huge, and the plastic back is gently curved. The unit is very slim, thinner than a MacBook Air. There are no buttons on the device, save the single power switch.
The JooJoo runs a proprietary Linux-based operating system whose only purpose is to run the device's browser, based on Webkit but again a custom job by the developer. The browser supports Flash and other standard HTML extensions, but it won't run non-Web apps. No Skype for you.
Orderable starting Friday on: https://thejoojoo.com/
Video:
For Home Automation: Browser based which is not fast, no real-time updates (?) and requires a lot of skills to make it look good. It does support flash but we don't have an easy way to make great GUI's using flash and HomeSeer. IF it only would run some kind of XP