Technology is like Buses

... it really is, you wait for one and then three turn up at the same time. Last week Apple demonstrated their latest offering the iPad, which is due out March / April. Steve Jobs presented this device as a new breed that fits in between smart phones and laptops. The way Steve described this was as if Apple had invented this class of device in the pioneering fashion Apple likes to portray. Well just like buses there are a range on these tablet / pad devices all coming out in the near future. Asus have one on it's way, HP have the slate and MSI have a new tablet to name a few. Most of these will use Windows 7 and Google are looking at pushing Chrome out to some of these devices to. Most of these share similar hardware to Netbooks.

Today I was pointed to the JooJoo as a rival to the iPad. Now name aside (I agree it'd not good) this looks an interesting proposition especially when you compare the Tech Specs to the Apple iPad. The obvious difference is that the JooJoo comes in at a similar size and weight to the iPad but has a 12.1 inch multi touch display as opposed to the 10 inch iPad. Though 2 inches might not seem much different but the JooJoo runs this at 1366 x 768 which can show true 720p videos. Now I know Steve Jobs told us all that the iPad plays Hi-Def videos but there lies the difference. The iPad can play them but it doesn't display them at 720p and that's because at 1024 x 768 the ipad's screen us not Hi-Def. The JooJoo claims a 9 second boot time from cold using it's own bespoke browser based operating system. The rest of the Specs are similar to the iPad but where the JooJoo differs is that it uses a 4GB solid state drive rather which is a tad small when compared the smallest iPad at 16GB, I think most people will be purchasing the 32Gb or 64Gb versions. It does however have a camera for video conferencing.

These devices are primarily designed as a Internet browser device and this is Where the JooJoo puts the iPad in its place. It does this by supporting Flash 10.1 which will no doubt bring a more enriched browsing experience.

As with most of the specs even the price at $499 is similar to the iPad, so this does look a little tempting. Though you have to wonder if there will be any third party applications to further it's capabilities. The iPad is a let down in it’s present state but you know they can and most likely will change that as time goes on. I would just worry that the JooJoo would be the same as it is out of the box 6 months after it is released.

To check out the JooJoo follow the link below. In fact if you are in the Us, you can pre-order one now. https://thejoojoo.com/