CrunchPad, take two: Meet JooJoo

08.12.2009

So, to recap: The company is selling a running a custom OS that only works on Wi-Fi for the cost of a netbook running Windows and a wireless broadband card. And it's named JooJoo.

Wired's Priya Ganapati did , and found it "elegant" and "simple," though also a bit slow and overpriced. Fusion Magic is planning to take orders later this week (assuming it gets any) and deliver the first JooJoos to customers in 8 to 10 weeks.

But first the company has to get around the 900-pound purple elephant in the room named Michael. My has been and anyone else who's been within 20 yards of them for the past year.

I have a theory about what happened. to work with that his partners finally just dumped him from the project. Per Fusion Garage CEO and founder :

"Michael made many promises suggesting he will deliver on hardware, deliver on software, deliver on -- none of which came true. We had to move on," Rathakrishnan said in a webcast Monday.