JooJoo tablet website updated, opens "pre-orders"

The backlash is understandable, considering how people in the valley worship arrington and TC's influence, but after arrington's post yesterday, I really fail to see what's wrong with the device other then the fact that arrington is whining about it. He's pissed that they moved forward with the IP that they rightfully deserve, and everyone rushes to his defense? I'm pretty sick of listening to gossip.

I hear no discussion about the specs of the device. Let's discuss the merits of the device and other tablets like it. What can be improved? What can apple do better?

The truth is probably that, had they not squandered their relationship with Arrington, and TC had announced, joyously, that pre-orders were available today. It would have been a land-slide victory - possibly even with the price change.

Classic geek-in-business mistake. You can create the greatest product in the world, but without top-notch marketing, it's nothing.

They underestimated the relationship between TC readers and this product. They will learn how much Arrington really did do for the "Crunchpad".

The JooJoo looks amazing but I'm not going to gamble by being an early adoption. When a company already has one lawsuit and their product is not shipping yet, I don't want to chance my $499. I could care less if the JooJoo makes Arrington cry nor do I want to chance my money on a pre-order on a product that may never see the light of day..

I'm going to wait for them to ship in 8 to 10 weeks and see what people say once they actually own the tablet. If it's as amazing as it looks, then I might have to buy one. If Chrome OS will run on the tablet then I'm even more apt to buy one because I trust that Google will keep their OS more up to date. For now, I'm going to not be an early adopter and take the safe road.

All of the product shots look like Photoshop mockups. Note the shadows and highlights and the pixelated edges around the simulated pictures on the device. When "real" vendors do this, there is always a disclaimer that says that the images are simulated.

It actually looks pretty nice. It's a shame this didn't come to market in a cleaner way.

The events surrounding this device are unfortunate. It's pretty cool to me that a small company was able to build something that consumers seem to want but none of the big players have provided (yet). However, I'm still on the sideline till Apple releases their tablet. My main requirement is a modest level of synergy at the OS level because I don't live on web-apps. Certainly not everyone requires this but I do if I'm spending upwards of $500+. Had the joojoo launched at $200, I probably wouldn't be as picky about it.

I found the website a bit lacking in terms of information. It feels hastily done. 1. I think most early adopters will be technical people, and so they need to put up more technical specs. They need more real photos and/or video of the device. They have no track record, so asking users to buy their device based on a few photoshop pics is asking for too much. 2. Although Paypal is the de facto payment method these days, having Paypal only payment makes it look like they haven't taken the time out to set up a credit card payment system. 3. Besides a feedback email, there's no customer service telephone line or contact of any sort. Seeing as they are selling a consumer product it would make their customers feel at ease about their purchase if they knew there was someone within easy reach is something goes wrong.

That being said, it looks like a nice device. I can't wait to see it in action.

Hmm, surprisingly a nice final product for such a messy inception. I'm definitely not going to be an early adopter of this, though. I still have more questions than answers about the product.

From the images it looks great; I wouldn't pre-order it though from them directly, only if it came via Amazon or if I can check it out in a store.

I would assume if you can pre-order via Amazon, they have "vetted" the product.

i updated the http://crunchpad.com page with a few extra reasons why I wouldn't buy:

#1. The only way to pre-order is with PayPal, and since PayPal Buyer Protection only lasts 45 days, and the JooJoo says "Pre-orders will ship in 8 to 10 weeks." that means if they "forget" to ship, you are out of luck.

#2: Every single image seems to be a rendering, not a single actual photo.

#3: They only sell to United States, yet they only use kilograms for weights, talk about amateur hour.

juju is on African word an it's normally associated with 'black' magic, hexes and stuff. It actually has a negative connotation in most African circles. So marketing it with the association to 'juju' in Africa would not be a good idea.

I think the website is Beautiful, at least.