Fusion Garage CEO, Chandra Rathakrishnan, has finally held a Media Conference (Webcast actually) to explain and overturn what TechCrunch Michael Arrington had accused them of doing on the 30th November Blog Post.
The whole saga begins to become more interesting. Chandra says that before TechCrunch came up with the “vision” of the CrunchPad, Fusion Garage is already developing a browser based OS. Chandra says that Michael Arrington promised to do the marketing and get investors, and eventually acquire Fusion Garage.
However, Michael was unable to deliver at project end date, February 2009. Chandra goes on to say that TechCrunch is just a blog and the birthday cake is not a contract and he mentioned that Fusion Garage took “all the risk” while Michael “sat back”.
Click Here to Read the Live Coverage of the Video Conference from Fusion Garage
Going on, Chandra revealed that CrunchPad is just a packaging from Fusion Garage and nothing to do with TechCrunch. He then announced that his new product will be called JooJoo (Magic).
It will be launched on the 11th December 2009. It is more a web browser based device than a computer. Sounds like Google Chrome OS to me. Good luck to Fusion Garage and thanks for the clarification. We might be hearing more on this saga this week.
Specs wise: -
- 12.1-inch capacitive touchscreen
- Browser Based OS on Linux
- 2.4 pounds
- No keyboard
- 4GB SSD
- WiFi (no 3G)
- Accelerometer
- Battery life of about 5 hours
- Boots up to a web browser (in 9 secs)
- Price: US$499
- Pre-order from 11th December 2009
