When we last checked in on Fusion Garage, Brad had declared the company only mostly dead. Today, however, it appears as though it’s time to put on the toe tag and zip up the bag: Fusion Garage is done. On January 20th, the company’s creditors will be sitting down with representatives from PricewaterhouseCoopers and taking a good, hard look Fusion…
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Fusion Garage may have lost its PR team, its lawyers, and for a brief period earlier this week its website. But the company’s not quite dead yet. The makers of the Grid10 and ill-fated JooJoo tablets are seeking additional funding to stay afloat. In an interview, founder Chandra Rathakrishnan tells Engadget that: The company has already moved more Grid10 tablets than JooJoo tablets….
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Fusion Garage doesn’t have a great track record of delivering high quality products. Last year the company generated a lot of headlines with its JooJoo tablet (which started out its life as the CrunchPad before the company parted ways with TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington). When the tablet finally hit the market it was widely panned by reviewers. So this summer…
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The Fusion Garage Grid 10 is a tablet with a 10 inch display and an unusual operating system that’s based on Google Android. It has a custom home screen, web browser, and suite of applications, but the tablet can run many Android applications. It sells for $299. Fusion Garage introduced the tablet in August, but it actually showed up at…
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The Fusion Garage Grid 10 is a tablet with a 10 inch display and an unusual operating system called GridOS. Sure, the software is based on Android and it can run most Android applications, but the idea behind GridOS was to offer something different — including support for gesture-based navigation, a highly customizable home screen that scrolls infinitely, and the…
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The Grid 10 is the second tablet from Fusion Garage… the company behind the ill-fated JooJoo. But while the JooJoo had a unique browser-based operating system and no support for third party apps, the Grid 10 is a 10 inch tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor and an operating system based on Android. While it doesn’t look like…
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The first tablet from Fusion Garage running the new GridOS software was scheduled to start shipping this week. But just a few days before launch the company has knocked about $200 off the price tag and the ship date has been pushed a few weeks until October 1st. Now you can pre-order a Grid 10 WiFi tablet from Fusion Garage…
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The Fusion Garage Grid 10 tablet is expected to ship on September 15th, but it’s already up for pre-order from the Fusion Garage website or from Amazon.com. The 10 inch tablet has a starting price of $499 for a WiFi-only model or $599 for a model with WiFi and 3G. The Grid 10 is an unusual tablet with an operating…
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Fusion Garage made a name for itself with the JooJoo tablet, a disappointing tablet that launched in 2010. Now the company is back with a new tablet called the Grid 10 and a smartphone called the Grid 4 — and they run a new Android-based operating system called GridOS. The Grid 10 goes up for pre-order today for $499 for…
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It looks like the folks behind the wildly unpopular JooJoo may be ready to take another crack at this whole tablet thing. There’s a listing for a new device at the FCC website for a product from Fusion Garage — the company that made the JooJoo tablet. There are few details available, but the FCC label ID drawing seems to…
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The Fusion Garage JooJoo tablet may not have been a wild success story in the consumer space, but the company is banking on the problem being software-related, not hardware. The JooJoo was envisioned as a web-0nly tablet running a light weight operating system that only served to launch a web browser without the ability to run native apps. While Fusion…
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We already knew that Fusion Garage was planning to launch new tablets next year, likely running the Google Android operating system. But now e27 reports that the company’s first (and poorly received) tablet has reached the end of life. Fusion Garage founder Chandrashekar Rathakrishnan says that the Joojoo tablet didn’t meet the company’s sales expectations. He speculates the problem may…
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